News & Events
Park Awarded AT&T Research Grant
From the GMC Journal
Week of October 6, 2008
Prof. Jacob Park (business strategy & sustainability) has been awarded an AT&T grant through the company’s 2008 Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship program. Jacob is a co-principal investigator with Joseph Sarkis of Clark University and Zhaohui Wu of Oregon State University College of Business. The three collaborators will share the $25,000 award.
This annual grant program is designed to advance the development of research and help universities produce faculty and students who can contribute to solving global and regional environmental problems. Jacob’s team will investigate and document how the information and communication technology sector can achieve business and environmental value opportunities in China within that country’s rapidly changing policy landscape.
This grant builds on the work Jacob has been doing on the theme of sustainability, business, and information technology since 2001. His first output was the book Ecology of the New Economy, published in 2002 by Greenleaf Publishers.
Hancock Presents Paper at England Conference
From the GMC Journal
Week of September 29, 2008
Prof. Paul Hancock (economics) recently presented a paper titled “A Crease in the Landscape: Colonial Land Tenure and Settlement Patterns on the New York-Vermont Border” to the conference of the British Group in Early American History in Manchester, England.
Project to Document Poverty in Honduras
From the GMC Journal
Week of September 15, 2008
Prof. Paul Hancock (economics) presented a paper July 10 titled “Globalization and the Street Children of Tegucigalpa: How U.S. Trade Policies and Multi-National Corporate Penetration devastated the Honduran Economy” at the International Working/Poverty Class Academics Conference at the University of Minnesota.
This presentation was in conjunction with a documentary that was shot and is being edited by Paul’s research assistant, GMC student José Tulio-Galvéz Contreras. José spent the end of May and most of June filming on the streets and in the institutions of Tegucigalpa.
Jose and Paul will be making joint presentations at a faculty colloquium, to church groups and at academic conferences over the next year. They also hope to submit the film to GritTV and other documentary outlets.
Park Co-Edits Book on Environmental Governance
From the GMC Journal
week of April 14, 2008
A book co-edited by Prof. Jacob Park (business strategy & sustainability), titled “The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance: Toward a New Political Economy of Sustainability,” was published this month by Routledge.
Edited by Park, Ken Conca (University of Maryland), and Matthias Finger (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), and with contributions from international scholars from North America, South America, Asia, and Europe, the book offers a comprehensive framework on globalization, governance, and sustainability, and examines institutional mechanisms and arrangements to achieve sustainable environmental governance.
Bill Prado Hosts VBSR Workshop
From the GMC Journal
week of March 31, 2008
Prof. Bill Prado (business) organized a workshop titled "From the World of Higher Education: News You Can Use" for the 2008 Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR) Annual Conference. Bill's presentation will provide an overview of sale-leaseback and other financial structures to reduce the cost of alternative energy systems. VBSR is a statewide business trade association of nearly 700 Vermont companies representing over 30,000 employees.
Steven Letendre Releases Two Reports
From the GMC Journal
Week of March 24, 2008
Prof. Steven Letendre (management & environmental studies) served as the lead author on two recently released energy reports. The first report, titled "Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles and the Vermont Grid: A Scoping Analysis", was co-authored with colleagues from the University of Vermont’s Transportation Center. This report presents the results of six months of research to better understand the regional impacts that would likely result from greater use of so-called plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV).
Steven served as the lead author on a second report titled "Residential Photovoltaic Metering and Interconnection Study: Utility Perspectives and Practices." The report presents findings from a survey of 63 electric power companies that Steven conducted on behalf of the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA). The report documents how individual utilities handle the integration of home-scale solar electric power systems.
Bill Prado Leads Development Workshop
From the GMC Journal
Week of March 24, 2008
Prof. Bill Prado (business) will lead a professional development workshop at the 2008 Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Conference titled “Leading and Managing for Global Sustainability: A Conversation for Possibility and Action.” AOM is the oldest and largest scholarly management association in the world, with 17,500 members from over 100 nations.
Jacob Park selected as a 2007 Erasmus Mundus International Scholar
From the GMC Journal
Week of April 23, 2007
Prof. Jacob Park (Business & Public Policy) has been selected as a 2007 Erasmus Mundus International Scholar by the European Commission's Eramus Mundus/Masters in Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management Program (http://www.mespom.org). As an Erasmus Mundus Scholar, Jacob will be co-teaching a master's degree course on "Business, Society, and Environment" sponsored jointly by Central European University (http://www.ceu.hu) Business School and the Department of Environmental Science and Policy from May 15-31.
Jacob Park receives $10,000 research grant from Commission for Environmental Cooperation
From the GMC Journal
Week of April 2, 2007
Prof. Jacob Park (Business & Public Policy) received a $10,000 research grant from the Montreal-based Commission for Environmental Cooperation (http://www.cec.org) to work on a paper examining the environmental impacts of economic and business trends in the food retail/service industry. At the fourth North American Symposium on Assessing the Environmental Effects of Trade in the spring/summer of 2008, Jacob will deliver a paper presentation (hopefully with a student or two from GMC) outlining the direct, upstream, and downstream environmental impacts of the food retail/services industry.
Jacob Park Quoted on Front-Page China Story
From the GMC Journal
Week of April 2, 2007
Prof. Jacob Park (Business & Public Policy) was quoted on the front page of Sunday's Burlington Free Press (4/1/07) in a story about creating business ties between Vermont and China. The article explores how the tremendous environmental threats presented by china's rapid growth also present business opportunities for places like Vermont that stake their reputation on "all things green." Click here for the full story.
Jacob Park to co-edit new book
From the GMC Journal
Week of March 5, 2007
Prof. Jacob Park (Business & Public Policy), along with Ken Conca, University of Maryland and Matthis Finger, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, will be a co-editor of a new book ("Crisis of Global Environmental Governance: Toward a New Political Economy of Sustainability"), to be published later this year by Routledge. With leading scholars from US, Canada, UK, Germany, Brazil, Switzerland, and other countries contributing individual chapters, the book "Crisis of Environmental Governance" examines the increasingly contested boundaries between globalization, sustainability, and governance, and discusses why the important goals of the 1992 Rio Summit have been so marginalized so far by the international community.
GMC Featured in University Business Magazine
From the GMC Journal
Week of March 5, 2007
Green Mountain College is included in an article by James Martin and James Samels describing American colleges and universities that offer their students outdoor learning experiences. The article mentions GMC’s accreditation by the National Recreation and Park Association as well as membership in the Eco League. The article also mentions the College’s niche programs in Resort Management and Adventure Recreation. Click here for the full article online.
Students Fare Well in Business Competition
From the GMC Journal
Week of Feb. 5, 2007
Green Mountain’s Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) team returned to Boston for another strong showing in a competition the weekend of January 26-28. Teammates Laura Restrepo, Joseph Bossen, Corinna Lowe, and Nicolas Bourges (from left), entered this year’s New England competition, taking third place in field of six that included Boston University, Franklin Pierce, U-Mass Dartmouth, Bryan College, and University of Southern Maine. The contest required each team to come up with a “business plan” to manage the finances of a hypothetical newlywed couple. Teams had the weekend to prepare their plan, then present it before the judges. The GMC team was coached by Prof. Jacob Park (business & economics).
Gardener’s Supply Founder to Speak Thursday
From the GMC Journal
Week of Oct. 9, 2006
Will Raap, who founded the popular catalog, Gardener’s Supply Company, will give a talk entitled, "How new economics and green businesses can lead the way to a more sustainable future" on Thursday at 1 p.m. in the East Room of Withey Hall. Raap is Chairman of America’s Gardening Resource, the parent company of Gardener’s Supply and Dutch Gardens. AGR is the largest gardening direct marketing company in the U.S. with additional operations in Holland, Russia, and Costa Rica. Rapp is a graduate of the University of California at Davis. He received his MBA and master’s in urban and regional planning from the University of California at Berkeley. He also founded Burlington’s non-profit Intervale Center in 1987.
