The B Academics 2023 Teaching Roundtable will focus on a unique experiential learning model, B Impact Teams (BITs), where college/university students work with businesses to measure, manage and improve their impact using the B Impact Assessment (BIA). The Roundtable will provide an opportunity to learn more about BITs, including how to start one on your campus, contribute to…
JOIN US for a transformative weekend of entrepreneurship, innovation, and creativity at Durham's Techstars StartUp Weekend focused on Sustainability. In just 54 hours, you will experience the highs, lows and pressure that make up life as a startup. As you learn how to create a real company, you'll meet the very best mentors, Investors, cofounders, and…
This is the ONLY conference covering this burgeoning market that gets key state policymakers, critical decision makers, and leading utility executives and renewable energy players from the most dynamic states in the region — including North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Kentucky — to provide definitive updates on the issues you will need to understand…
The Climate Solutions Collaborative is hosting a climate change career panel discussion for those who are considering work outside of the academic sector. This career panel, with a focus on policy and policy-adjacent careers, is hosted by the Coastal Resilience and Sustainability Initiative, Global One Health Academy, North Carolina State Climate Office, KIETS Climate Leaders…
For sustainability-minded, impact-driven MBAs – join to meet climate companies hiring for MBA internship positions for the summer of 2024.
Earth’s climate is warming, storms are becoming more extreme, and the ocean is rising. While this reality has only recently begun to sink into the popular imagination, films have been depicting potential dystopian outcomes of climate change for a long time. Join climate change experts Deja Perkins, Martha Reiskind, Rebecca Ward, and ecocinema professor Jorge Marí…
Make-A-Thon is NC State’s sustainability innovation competition. Collaborating in cross-disciplinary teams, students will research, design and prototype solutions to a sustainability challenge, then pitch their idea to community and industry judges. Yes, there are prizes for the winning teams: $4,000 for first place, $2,000 for second place and $1,000 for third place. Prizes will also…
Join the Career Speaker Series hosted by the Business Sustainability Collaborative! This series is designed for students interested in gaining insights into business sustainability careers. Tony Pease is a technology executive with over 20 years of experience building early-stage technology and consulting firms. He is the Founder and CEO of Carimus, a brand and digital…
Climate change is one of the 21st century’s most important drivers of value creation and destruction in the global economy. By 2030, global climate change impacts are projected to reach $700 billion annually, with trillions of dollars of coastal, urban, and agricultural assets at risk. Climate change also represents a multi-trillion dollar business opportunity for…
The Center for Environmental Resource and Resource Economic Policy, Office of University Interdisciplinary Programs and the Climate Solutions Collaborative are sponsoring a public talk by Michael Greenstone. Michael is one of the world's foremost experts on carbon pricing and trading. He is the Milton Friedman Prof. of Economics at the University of Chicago, a former member of the…
