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Joey Shepp and Green Maven featured on CBS News
Watch the News Clip >> Dominican University Offering ‘Green’ MBA (CBS 5 / KCBS-KPIX) SAN RAFAEL Students working towards a “Green MBA” at San Rafael’s Dominican University are getting quite a different take on business from the usual view. Program Director John Stayton said the Green MBA was created for a specific kind of individual.…
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Joey Shepp and Green Maven featured in the San Francisco Business Times
By Elizabeth Browne San Francisco Business Times Internet search is going green. At least two local companies are jumping into the vertical search market to help consumer find websites and businesses that fit their environmental and social values. “It has big implications for those in the mainstream who don’t know the right adjective to find…
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Green Media 2.0 :: Green Maven featured in cover story
Joey Shepp, Green MBA graduate 2005, founder of Earthsite.net and GreenMaven.com was featured in the cover story of the August issue of Sustainable Industries Journal Here is a quote from the article: "Shepp founded Earthsite.net in 2003 to provide marketing, branding, consulting and incubation for environment-focused Web sites. GreenMaven is an Earthsite.net success story, and…
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Rising Suns: Graduating green: Progressive MBA program makes sustainability the bottom line
Source: Pacific Sun May 4, 2007 by Jacob Shafer Quote from Article: Joey Shepp of Fairfax, a graduate of the program, offers a ringing endorsement. "I was part of the third graduating class, so I had a huge opportunity to help shape the program," says Shepp. "It was amazing—small classes, great faculty and really self-directed."…
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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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