Calendar of Events
StartZone Business Showcase with BGI
Over 20 StartZone businesses will be showcased at the event, including several that will be selling food from their restaurants or bakeries – so be sure to bring an appetite!
400 members, partners, agencies and stakeholders have been invited to the event. A short program mid-way through the event will include introductory remarks from Bainbridge Graduate Institute and StartZone. Brief presentations by two or three of StartZone’s clients will follow.
Check out our press release from May 6 for more information on this new partnership between BGI and StartZone.
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Potential students are invited to explore BGI’s Evening MBA program, an entirely in-person, course-based format. Join our students for a class in our Evening MBA program. Space is limited. RSVP required.
Please arrive at 5:15 pm for introductions. The program starts with an information session at 5:30 with Q&A. Class begins at 6:00 pm.
Class: Strategy & Implementation
Your class visit allows you the opportunity to:
- Discover how our MBA in Sustainable Business can help you achieve your goals
- Sit in on a class and get answers to your questions
- Gain insight into the MBA experience through interactions with current students, faculty and staff
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Evening MBA Visit
Potential students are invited to explore BGI’s Evening MBA program, an entirely in-person, course-based format. Join our students for a class in our Evening MBA program. Space is limited. RSVP required.
Please arrive at 5:15 pm for introductions. The program starts with an information session at 5:30 with Q&A. Class begins at 6:00 pm.
Class: Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship -or- Social Justice & Business
Your class visit allows you the opportunity to:
- Discover how our MBA in Sustainable Business can help you achieve your goals
- Sit in on a class and get answers to your questions
- Gain insight into the MBA experience through interactions with current students, faculty and staff
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ISSP: Run Up to Rio+20
Event Date: May 24, 2012 – 11:00am – 12:00pm
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Free to ISSP Members. $10 for all others.
If you are unable to attend live, please also register to receive a link to the recording.
The Run Up To Rio+20 Continues… ISSP to host Rio+20 webinar on May 24th
Amy Fraenkel, UNEP’s Director for North America, will be the lead presenter for ISSP’s Rio+20 webinar May 24, 2012, a month prior to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio. Ms. Fraenkel and her team at UNEP-RONA are leading efforts to raise awareness on the Rio+20 themes (see below) and coordinate participation in the run-up process in North America. She will join other panelists (tba) representing various stakeholder perspectives in a dialogue facilitated by Ira Feldman that will provide a preview of the potential outcomes and discuss the significance of the Rio+20 process for sustainability professionals.
“The objective of the Conference is to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assess the progress to date and the remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development, and address new and emerging challenges
The Conference will focus on two themes: (i) a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication; and (ii) the institutional framework for sustainable development.”
For ISSP’s ongoing coverage of activities occuring in the run up to Rio+20, see http://www.sustainabilityprofessionals.org/run-rio20-2012.
Free to ISSP Members. $10 for all others.
If you are unable to attend live, please also register to receive a link to the recording.
Info Session
Are you interested in learning about how you and BGI might make a fit? So are we. We invite you to our Seattle learning site thirty (30) minutes prior to our networking events and mixers to have a conversation with our admissions team and our president Gifford Pinchot III. Then, stay for the event. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to let us know. Please RSVP 24 hours before the event to let us know you’re interested. See you soon!
Read MoreNetwork BGI Community Social – Food and Ag
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Event Overview
Thursday, May 24, 2012 – Network BGI hosts another community social, this time focusing on Food and Ag. Confirmed guests include John Gardner, Ph.D. (BGI Dean), Nicole Capizzi (Seattle based Farmer), Peter Reinhardt Knutson (Loki Fish Owner), Jessica Redmayne (Current BGI Student & Sourcing Specialist for FishChoice.com) and Scott James (BGI Faculty and Founder of CORA).
Network BGI is proud to invite you to this month’s community social featuring food and ag table discussions. We have a wide range of food and ag professionals working in various sectors and industries, representing academia, private, public, and nonprofit organizations large and small. On May 24 you will have the opportunity to discuss current trends and topics of interests with these individuals as well as hear their own stories within their fields.
As always, this event is open to the public and we encourage you to bring a classmate, mentor, coworker, and/or friend. This is yet another great opportunity to build community with people in and outside of the BGI network. Back by popular demand and positive feedback is the World Café format to facilitate quality sharing of ideas.
Registration is now open. We hope you share in the food, drink, and chance to spend quality time with quality people. Contact events@bgi.edu if you have any questions.
Flow of Event
* 6:00 p.m. – Doors Open
* 6:15 p.m. – Welcome (Introduction)
* 6:25 p.m. – Would Café Explanation
* 6:30 p.m. – World Café Table Discussions
* 7:30 p.m. – Open For Networking
Guests & Bios:
John Gardner, Ph.D.
John has been an entrepreneur, an agricultural researcher, a passionate champion of sustainability, a teacher, a leader of community economic development and a senior academic administrator. He is now the Dean of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, a charter business school among the first to offer an MBA in sustainability. Nearing ten years old with close to 500 alumni, BGI is charting a growth strategy to expand national offerings at its destination program at Islandwood on Bainbridge Island, and also grow an emerging effort in the Seattle metro area for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs.
For the past four years, he was Vice President at Washington State University responsible for better leveraging all of WSU’s assets for economic growth and vitality of the state. Prior to WSU, he filled a similar role at the University of Missouri as Vice President for Research and Economic Development. In all, he has been a student, faculty member, or administrator at five land grant universities. John has also had experience as the Director of the NDSU Carrington Research Extension Center and was one of the founders and chief executives of AgGrow Oils, a 540 member LLC that integrated the production, processing, and marketing of both novel and designer oilseeds.
Scott James
Scott James is an entrepreneur, instructor, and advisor in the world of sustainability. BusinessWeek named Scott one of “America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs” in 2009 and Forbes profiled him as a “Game Changer” in 2010. The products from his most recent company (sold 2011) were featured in publications as diverse as Oprah’s O Magazine, National Geographic, Parents Magazine, the Washington Post, Outside Magazine, and US News & World Report. Scott is currently working on CORA (www.teamcora.com), curators of the Trash Backwards mobile app.
In addition to teaching at BGI, he teaches the the Sustainability Interterm course at University of Notre Dame, where he serves on the Advisory Council. Scott is passionate about permaculture and building resilience in local communities. He lives on a Bainbridge Island micro-farm with his wife and children.
Nicole Capizzi
Nicole Jain Capizzi operates Amaranth Urban Farm in Seattle, Washington and has been making her living farming, teaching, and writing about sustainable agriculture since 2002. She’s created viable urban farm businesses in Seattle and Milwaukee and aims to redefine the place of urban agriculture within the re-emerging local and sustainable business economy.
Nicole is a 2003 graduate of the organic farm apprenticeship at UC Santa Cruz, Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. She now also serves as a board member of the Seattle Chefs Collaborative and as a newly appointed commissioner for the King County Agriculture Commission and is a member of Tilth Producers of Washington, Puget Sound Beekeepers Association, National Young Farmers Coalition, and Cascade Harvest Coalition.
Peter Reinhardt Knutson, Ph.D.
Pete grew up in the Puget Sound Basin and graduated class of 1970 from Everett High School. Between 1970-1972 he did undergraduate work at Stanford where he also organized against the American War in Vietnam. (Pete’s memoir of that anti-war movement). He finished his B.A. at New School for Social Research, and was awarded his Doctorate in Sociocultural Anthropology by the University of Washington in 1987. His autoethnographic dissertation chronicled and analyzed the the dynamics of power and language in working class life aboard a commercial fishing vessel in the North Pacific.
He taught his first community college course in 1980 and have been a full-time faculty member at Seattle Central for fifteen years.
Pete feels strongly about the need to preserve wild ecosystems, he has been very involved in many of the conservation battles surrounding the preservation of wild Pacific salmon stocks, protection of salmon habitat and sustainable fisheries. Currently he is an elected Commissioner on the Puget Sound Salmon Commission, which is part of the Washington State Department of Agriculture. Since 1972 he has also worked as a commercial fisherman on North Pacific waters. His family maintains an independent fishing business which provides fish products to Seattle area Farmers Markets.
Jessica Redmayne
Jessica Redmayne currently serves as the Sourcing Specialist for FishChoice.com, an online database of sustainable seafood suppliers and producers. Prior to entering the seafood industry, she spent a significant period of time travelling around Latin America, diving and exploring. From this experience, she developed her passion for community economic development through business. She is currently pursing this interest through her MBA in Sustainable Business at the Bainbridge Graduate Institute. Jessica’s work for FishChoice primarily involves being a liaison between NGO’s and businesses in the seafood industry, helping various stakeholders in the sustainable seafood landscape recognize their sustainability and receive its subsequent market benefits.
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Alice Walker, Frances Moore Lappé, & Makana Celebrate People Power
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning author and poet Alice Walker, bestselling author Frances Moore Lappé, and renowned Hawaiian slack-key guitar player Makana for YES! Magazine’s 2nd Annual Celebration of People Power.
YES! Magazine board member Puanani Burgess will bring these three together at Town Hall to celebrate the enthusiasm and creativity with which ordinary people are actively building a world that works for everyone, and for the planet. A dessert reception will follow in the lobby with live music from Makana.
A limited number of tickets are also available for a private dinner at the Sorrento Hotel before the event with Frances Moore Lappé, Makana, sponsors, and the board of YES! Magazine.
Proceeds from the evening benefit YES! Magazine, a nonprofit, national media organization based on Bainbridge Island. Gifts made to YES! are tax-deductible and will be matched on the night of June 6th.
For more information, please visit www.yesmagazine.org/about/town-hall-2012 or http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/241232 to get your tickets.
Read MoreSustainable Saturday
Potential students are invited to explore the many components that make BGI’s Hybrid MBA program unique. Join us at IslandWood for one day of a Hybrid MBA intensive. Space is limited. RSVP required.
Your campus visit allows you the opportunity to:
- Discover how our MBA in Sustainable Systems can help you achieve your goals
- Sit in on classes and get answers to your questions
- Explore our LEED certified campus and our incredible learning community
- Gain insight into the MBA experience through interactions with current students, faculty and staff
Sample schedule:
- 9:45 Arrive at IslandWood, Coffee & tea service
- 10 – 10:45 Introductions with the Dean & Admissions
- 10:45 – 12:30 Sit in on MBA classes
- 12:30 – 1:30 Lunch (BGI provides lunch)
- 1:30 – 3:15 Q & A (Students, Gifford Pinchot, Admissions)
- 3:15 – 6:00 Visit additional classes (optional)
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Bainbridge Graduate Institute 2012 Graduation
Commencement is a time for the BGI community to celebrate the achievement of our graduates and the promise they have to change business for good. Congratulations to the class of 2012! We are honored to have Lynne Twist join us as the keynote speaker.
Tickets are $20 each through May 17th. They are $30 May 18th through June 9th as space is available. You can purchase tickets through Brownpapertickets.
Read MoreWCTA Annual Meeting and Breakfast
Join Washington State’s Cleantech Leadership for the inaugural WCTA Annual Meeting
- Michael K. Young, University of Washington
- Elson S. Floyd, Washington State University
The first WCTA annual meeting will feature Washington State University President Elson S. Floyd and University of Washington President Michael K. Young sharing the stage together. These distinguished leaders will discuss their visions for our state’s great research universities and the future of our cleantech economy. They will cover topics including the role of the institutions in the economy, the development of biofuels, job creation, the development of promising new clean technologies, and their relationship with the state.
The WCTA annual meeting is on Thursday, June 14 from 7:30 am – 10:00 am at the Sheraton Seattle Metropolitan Ballroom.
Elson S. Floyd was named President of the four-campus Washington State University in 2006. He took office as the 10th president of Washington State’s land-grant research university on May 21, 2007. He leads one of America’s most productive research universities. WSU is classified among the nation’s 96 leading public and private universities with very high research activity by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Dr. Floyd brings to WSU an exceptionally wide range of administrative experience, as well as valuable state and national perspectives on higher education issues and policies.
Michael K. Young became President of the University of Washington in 2011. Also a tenured Professor of Law, President Young has a distinguished record as an academic leader with broad experience in public service and diplomacy. As UW President, he leads the nation’s top public university (2nd among all universities) in attracting federal research funding. Prior to his appointment at the UW, he served as President and Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Utah. Under President Young’s leadership, Utah raised its stature nationally and internationally. It led the nation in the number of new companies generated from university research, significantly raised the academic profile of the student body, expanded international education, and built more than 2 million square feet of new research and teaching facilities.
WCTA members, industry leaders, public policy makers, and interested citizens are encouraged to attend.
The Washington Clean Technology Alliance is a not-for-profit, 501(c)(6) trade association that offers advocacy, business solutions and education for members and the clean technology community. Its members range from aerospace to software; start-up companies to major industries. To learn more about WCTA, sign up to volunteer, or for membership information, please visit the website:www.wacleantech.org.
For more information on the WCTA, contact Tom Ranken by phone at (206) 389-8655 or via email at tom@wacleantech.org.
For WCTA event information, sponsorship opportunities, or to reserve a seat, please contact Maureen Takaoka at (206) 389-8662 or via email at maureen@wacleantech.org.
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