Month: July 2007
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Panelist at Net Impact Professionals Summit, Chicago 2006
Decision Making 2.0: How Information Technology Can Help us Make Decisions Friendly to Planet, People and Profits Do you know the environmental impact of that steak you bought at Whole Foods? Do you have any idea how much electricity your PC is using when you leave it on all night? Should you tell the grocery…
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Speaker at Sustainable Enterprise Conference 2007
How Web 2.0 is Empowering Sutainable Business Web 2.0 is about collaboration, sharing, and accessibility. How is this online revolution empowering Sustainable Business? Participants will learn how start-ups and big businesses alike are using the power of the Web to improve their bottom lines while addressing environmental and social justice issues. See demonstrations of cutting-edge,…
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GREEN SEARCH ENGINE MAKES TIME.COM’s TOP 10 LIST OF NEW WEBSITES
An excerpt from "GREEN SEARCH ENGINE MAKES TIME.COM’s TOP 10 LIST OF NEW WEBSITES": "People want to go green, but they often don’t know where to start or even what questions to ask," says Joey Shepp, founder of Green Maven. "Green Maven makes searching for all things green as easy as using Google. If you…
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Green is Good
January 12th, 2006 If there’s one person who best embodied the spirit of corporate America in the 1980s – the shameless pursuit of profit and the conviction that ethics don’t apply in business – it’s Ivan Boesky. A legendary Wall Street investor, Boesky made millions trading stock on insider information before the feds caught on…
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Green Means Black
Excerpt from "Green" Means "Black", by Natasha Dalton", May 2006 "…Another example of this new type of a successful private enterprise is that of Joey Shepp. He is the founder of Earthsite.net — a company building a global network of sustainable businesses. He is also a co-founder of AloNovo.com, a “responsible shopping portal with a…
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Bioneers Article Mentions Green MBA
November 11, 2005 In the exhibition hall, booths ranged from indigenous Amazon herbal products to fair-trade organic coffees to "green" MBA programs, such as the one offered by New College in San Francisco that promotes ecological sustainability and social justice. Participants debated political issues, lamented global warming and species die-off, and consistently returned to the…
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M.B.A.’s With Three Bottom Lines: People, Planet and Profit
January 8th, 2006 An excerpt ftom "M.B.A.’s With Three Bottom Lines: People, Planet and Profit," by Abby Ellin: "…Joey Shepp, a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, received a master’s from New College last spring. He chose New College for its smaller classes and ”an education that was more on the cutting edge,”…