News & Events
Hancock Hosts Greeley Tribune Workshop
From the GMC Journal
Week of October 19, 2009
The Fox Hill Center for the Arts in Poultney hosts the seventh annual Horace Greeley Writers Symposium October 24 – 25. On October 25, GMC Prof. Paul Hancock (economics) hosts the Greeley Tribune Workshop with Robert and Ann Williams and Burnham Holmes. The group plans to “recreate a newsroom setting with participants churning out copy under deadline.” Other workshops focus on poetry performance, the art of playwriting, the creative process and lyrical poetry.
Park Hosts Talk at Bentley University
From the GMC Journal
Week of October 19, 2009
Prof. Jacob Park (business strategy & sustainability) gave a Bentley University Distinguished Lecture Series Talk on “Ecology of New Technologies: Will the Global Environment be Saved or Destroyed by Technology” as part of its new Complex Problems/Creative Solutions program.
Park Presents Paper on Investor Activism
From the GMC Journal
Week of October 14, 2009
Prof. Jacob Park (business strategy and sustainability) presented his co-authored paper (“Investor Activism Beyond Borders: Investor Driven Governance Networks and Global Climate Governance”) at the International Financial Standards and the Environment Workshop held at the University of Waterloo’s Center for International Governance Innovation in Toronto.
Park Named Page Legacy Scholar
From the GMC Journal
Week of September 14, 2009
Prof. Jacob Park (business strategy and sustainability) has been appointed Page Legacy Scholar at the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication at Penn State University for the 2009-2010 academic year. As part of his non-residential academic appointment, he receives a research grant to work on a discussion paper/book chapter on the various strategies used by private companies to engage and communicate with their stakeholders in terms of the climate change issue.
Prado Leads Sustainable Business Workshop
From the GMC Journal
Week of September 7, 2009
Prof. Bill Prado (business) led a professional workshop in sustainable business education at the August 9 Academy of Management 2009 Annual Meeting in Chicago. The all-academy workshop - one of several that focused on this year's theme "Green Management Matters"- drew participants from around the world. The objective of the workshop was to support integration of sustainable business practices in business programs by understanding current teaching, curriculum, and organization challenges and opportunities.
Letendre Quoted in New York Times
Story on V2G Technology
The July 22 edition of the New York Times quotes Prof. Steve Letendre (management & environmental studies) in a story about vehicle-to-grid technology. The story, by Annie Jia of ClimateWire, discusses how electric vehicles may feed into the electric grid to produce electricity and help to "answer one of the biggest climate-related question marks hovering over the grid's future: how to store renewable energy." Letendre, who has modeled the economics of vehicle to grid technology, discusses the benefits of allowing adjustments to energy generation through the storage capacity of electric cars.
GMC Business Major Garners National Service Award
From the GMC Journal
Week of May 4, 2009
GMC student and business major Laura Restrepo was recently named a Gold Recipient of the 2009 President’s Volunteer Service Award, a national honor recognizing community service. She was one of 67 volunteers nationwide singled out by the U.S. Fund for UNICEF for demonstrating “exemplary citizenship through volunteering.” The award is issued by the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation, a group created by former President George W. Bush to recognize the valuable contributions volunteers are making. UNICEF is a certifying organization for the award.
Park a Juror for Design Competition
Week of May 4, 2009
Prof. Jacob Park (business strategy & sustainability) served as a juror for the annual U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-sponsored P3: People, Prosperity, and the Planet Student Design Competition for Sustainability on April 18-20 in Washington D.C. The P3 award competition encourages college students to apply technology in innovative ways to tackle global environmental challenges, and winners receive $75,000 to implement their projects.
Student Documentary to be Screened in NYC
From the GMC Journal
Week of April 6, 2009
GMC student Jose Galvez-Contreras, Prof. Paul Hancock (economics), and Cecilia Kline, a lawyer working in Honduras on issues of teenage gangs and street children, will be giving a panel presentation at the Left Forum at Pace University in New York City the weekend of April 17-19.
Jose will show his documentary; Paul will talk about an economic analysis of global capital as it affects families and the informal labor sector in Honduras, and Cecilia will focus on the organizations and strategies focusing on helping kids. The trio plans to make the same presentation at Castleton State College’s Soundings Program April 21 at 12:30 p.m. in Jeffords Lecture Hall.
Last spring, Jose filmed a documentary focusing on how globalization is affecting the Honduran economy and street children there. He presented the film at a GMC student colloquium in the fall.
Park Nominated for Engaged Scholar Award
From the GMC Journal
Week of April 6, 2009
Prof. Jacob Park (business strategy and sustainability) was a finalist for the Engaged Scholar Award from Vermont Campus Compact for his innovative research regarding sustainable development, environment, and climate change. Jacob regularly integrates businesses, non-profits, and community groups in his courses. Jacob's students have developed a business plan for a Nature Conservancy nursery; worked with the Council on the Future of Vermont and helped the utility CVPS strengthen marketing for their Cow Power program.
The Vermont Campus Compact (VCC) held their statewide conference at the University of Vermont April 1. This year's conference theme was "Through a Civic Lens: Strengthening Higher Education from Classroom to Community." The VCC is a statewide coalition of college and university presidents established to promote integration of public service into the academic, student life and civic goals of member institutions.
Students Make Cow Power Presentation in Montpelier
From the GMC Journal
Week of March 30, 2009
As part of Vermont Entrepreneurship Week (Feb 24-27), four GMC students presented their work on the Cow Power class project at a luncheon February 27 in Montpelier, Vt. The Vermont Entrepreneurship Collaborative sponsored the event, which was attended by educators, students, state legislators, and business owners from across the state.
Pictured are (L to R): Ian Sutherland, Westy Kiefer, Mark Lundeen, and Karin Bellemare.
Park to Serve on Journal Editorial Board
From the GMC Journal
Week of March 30, 2009
Prof. Jacob Park, (business strategy & sustainability) was appointed to the editorial section board of the Journal of Business Ethics, one of the leading international academic journals devoted to corporate environmental and social responsibility issues. Jacob will continue to serve on the editorial/review boards of academic journals including Asia Business & Management, Business Strategy and Environment, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, and Journal of International Business (Book Review).
Letendre Featured on "Emerging Science" Television Series
From the GMC Journal
Week of February 23, 2009
Prof. Steve Letendre (management & environmental studies) was a featured expert in a recent episode of Emerging Science, a new series airing on Vermont Public Television that takes a close look at Vermonters at the frontiers of science. The February 17th episode investigated the challenges of continued dependence on gasoline vehicles in the face of climate change and declining oil reserves. Steve spoke about transportation alternatives including electric vehicles and an emerging concept known as “vehicle-to-grid,” then answered viewer questions in an Emerging Science chatroom while the program aired.
Research in 2007 by Dr. Richard Watts, research director of the University of Vermont Transportation Center, and Letendre shows that the Vermont electricity grid can handle 50,000 plug-ins without any changes to the existing system. The number rises to more than 100,000 if people recharge the cars at night.
Business Class Presents Cow Power
Service Learning Project
From the GMC Journal
Week of January 20, 2009
Students in Prof. Jacob Park's Business 3005 class presented a service learning project called "Cow Power: Making the Business Case for Vermont Sustainable Community Energy," on December 15. Several Central Vermont Public Service officials attended the presentation. Green Mountain College receives more than 50 percent of its electricity from Vermont dairy farms through the CVPS Cow Power Program. The class is pictured here wearing yellow “Cow Power” t-shirts with Jacob and guests from CVPS.
Park Elected to Statewide Board
From the GMC Journal
Week of January 20, 2009
Prof. Jacob Park (business) was one of six people elected to the board of directors of the Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR). Jacob was elected to a three-year term. VBSR is a non-profit, statewide business trade organization made up of 540 members who value multiple bottom lines–economic, social and environmental. Also elected for a three-year term were Larz Barber of Merrill Lynch, Burlington; Flip Brown of Business Culture Consultants, Burlington; Julie Lineberger of LineSync Architecture, Wilmington; Leslie Nulty of Focal Point Advisory Services, Jericho; and Mark Schulman of Goddard College, Plainfield.
Cow Power Service Learning Presentation Tonight
From the GMC Journal
Week of December 15, 2008
Students in Prof. Jacob Park’s Business 3005 course will present a service learning project called "Cow Power: Making the Business Case for Vermont Sustainable Community Energy" tonight at 6 p.m. in the Dickgeisser Room at Griswold Library. There will be an informal reception after the presentation, which will be attended by several Central Vermont Public Service officials. Green Mountain College receives more than 50 percent of its electricity from Vermont dairy farms through the CVPS Cow Power Program. The College community is invited to the presentation.
Asia the Focus of Two Journal Articles from Park
From the GMC Journal
Week of December 8, 2008
Prof. Jacob Park (business strategy and sustainability) has published two journal articles this month. The first article, “China, Business and Sustainability: Understanding the Strategic Convergence,” was published in the ‘China in an Era of Changing Global Business’ special issue of the Management Research News Journal, Volume 32: Issue 12, while the second article, “Strategy, Climate Change, and the Japanese Firm: Rethinking the Global Competitive Landscape of a Warming Planet,” was published in the ‘Business and the Natural Environment in Asia’ special issue of Asian Business & Management Journal, Volume 7: Issue 4 (December 2008).
Jacob also served as the guest editor and wrote the lead editorial, “Reconceptualizing the Asian Miracle: Asian Business and Management in an Era of Global Environmental Sustainability” of this special issue.
Park Hosts Presentation at
International Symposium
From the GMC Journal
Week of November 17, 2008
Prof. Jacob Park (business strategy and sustainability) was one of the featured presenters (“Taking a Systems Approach to Sustainability and Supply Chain Management: Critical Drivers, Emerging Trends, and Future Outlook”) at the Fall 2008 International Working Group Symposium held in conjunction with the 19th annual Socially Responsible Investing in the Rockies Conference in Whistler, British Columbia, on November 25. The International Working Group Symposium had presenters and participants from companies such as Starbucks, Wal-Mart, Dell, development groups like the World Bank, and community organizations/non-profits such as Investor Environmental Health Network, As You Sow Foundation, and others.
Park Hosts U.N. - Sponsored Workshop in India
From the GMC Journal
Week of November 10, 2008
Prof. Jacob Park (business strategy and sustainability) served as one of the academic lecturers for the United Nations-sponsored training workshop on “Sustainable Adaptation to Climate Change” in New Delhi, India on October 12-15. Jacob provided lectures and supervised training on how the marketplace/private companies present challenges and opportunities in managing climate change risks and adaptive resiliency. Co-organized by the University of Oslo and the Global Environment Change and Security Program, the training workshop had 22 participants consisting of post-graduate students and faculty members from Nigeria, South Africa, Mongolia, Chile, Spain, India, Brazil, and other countries.
Letendre Discusses Plug-in Technology
From the GMC Journal
Week of October 27, 2008
On October 15, Prof. Steven Letendre (management & environmental studies) presented at the seventh annual Renewable Energy Vermont Conference. The theme of this year’s conference was "A Bright Future for Vermont’s Renewables." The title of Steven’s presentation was “The Electric Drive Revolution and Sustainable Mobility.” It covered the latest trends in the development of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. The presentation also explored opportunities for renewable forms of energy and vehicle-to-grid applications associated with the electrification of the light vehicle fleet. Five students from Steven's energy & society course also attended the conference.
Student Documentary on Honduras Makes its GMC Debut
From the GMC Journal
Week of October 20, 2008
GMC student José Tulio-Galvéz Contreras (pictured) and Prof. Paul Hancock (economics) hosted a GMC colloquium October 15. José presented a short documentary he filmed in Honduras last spring. The film focuses on how globalization is affecting the Honduran economy and street children there.
Prado Publishes Article on Sustainable Business
From the GMC Journal
Week of October 20, 2008
Prof. Bill Prado (management) authored an article in The Academy of Management Organizations and the Natural Environment Division Newsletter (September 2008) about the opportunity for business educators to lead in supporting global sustainable business practices. The article was based on his work as presenter at a professional development workshop (“Leading & Managing for Global Sustainability: A Conversation for Possibility and Action”) at the Academy of Management’s 2008 Global Conference.
2006 GMC Grad to Conduct a Career Conversation
From the GMC Journal
Week of October 20, 2008
Anna Rebling, a GMC graduate from 2006, returns to campus October 20 to host a Career Conversation at 4:30 p.m. in Booth Lounge. Anna graduated with a B.S. in International Business Administration and is now a financial advisor with Prudential Financial. In December of 2006, she moved to New Mexico and opened a restaurant with her father. Following that, Anna served as a financial consultant in the commercial real estate and investment properties industry in northern Mexico.
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.