"This year, in order to formally celebrate professional accomplishments, we created annual teaching and research awards specfically for SBL faculty. During this past month, nineteen SBL aculty were nominated for the teaching awards by students or colleagues.  It is my great pleasure to bestow Dr. Julianne Maurseth with the Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award for 2012."

Dr. Dan Moshavi
Dean of the School of Business and Leadership
Dominican University of California

May 11, 2012, 8am to 5pm
Sonoma Mountain Village
Rohnert Park, CA

The Sustainable Enterprise Conference is a day-long learning and networking conference dedicated to helping North Bay businesses, academic, government and non-profit organizations transition to economic, environmental, and social sustainability. The 2012 Conference program provides organizations and individuals with the latest information on how innovation and sustainability will drive the economy while preserving the resources needed for a prosperous future.

Complete event details at Sustainableenterpriseconference.com

Join us for the GreenMBA Business Summer Plan Presentations on Saturday, April 28th at Dominican University of California.

As the culminating event in the GreenMBA program, the Business Plan Presentations capture two years of student learning about sustainability in organizations, multiple business disciplines, and effective presentations. They are diverse, inspiring and entertaining.

 

 

 

• Location: Guzman Lecture Hall, Dominican University Campus, San Rafael, California (see campus map and directions here).
• Date: Saturday, April 28th
• Time: Hors d'oeuvres 6pm to 6:30pm, Presentations 6:30pm-8:30pm
• Open to the Public
• Food and Drink Provided

Sirona Fuels Northern California's Largest Biodiesel producer located in Oakland California is now a Certified Green Business. We plan to not only conserve our resources but also educate employees and customers about resource conservation. As a Certified Green business we feel we are pioneers in our industry. Running a refinery involves many practices that have the ability to consume a overabundance of energy and resources. We have taken critical steps to not only reduce our resource consumption, but also to use our business's position to show that a refinery can be Green Certified. Our certification would not have been possible with out the team of bright and dedicated individuals from the Green MBA program at Dominican University of California. Through their auditing and reviews, we have been able to greatly reduce our environmental impact and footprint.

Dan Imhoff, author of Food Fight (Second Edition) and Ken Cook, Executive Director of the Environmental Working Group, present a revealing picture of how the 2012 Farm Bill – also deemed the Food Bill – will impact local food security, public health, and the ecological and economic sustainability of our regional food system. Their talk will explore how the 2012 Farm Bill could help cultivate a more vibrant, sustainable and equitable food system, and how every one of us can contribute to shaping the outcome of this critical federal legislation.

Time and Location

Thursday, March 22, 2012 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Dominican University, Angelico Hall
50 Acacia Avenue, San Rafael, CA

Price

$15 for general public
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As our species finally breaches the carrying capacity of the planet we call home, we come face to face with that perennial challenge: evolve or die. But now the challenge is both global and immediate. We have explored and exhausted the brand Homo sapiens. It is time to re-brand, to evolve beyond the strategically wise, the rationally refined, the intellectually erudite and the technologically talented. Our patterns of being and becoming now need to align with the brand identity of nature and the cosmos at large – with patterns and processes that continually create conditions conducive to life.

To do this, we first have to abandon our ego-centric conceptions of self. We can no longer look out at the world through the eyes of strident individual self-interest. And above all, we must be ready to repudiate our gladiatorial existence and learn how to be communal beings. To commune with ourselves, with each other, with nature, with past and future possibilities.

This is no mere poetic flight of fancy. It is the survival imperative of our times. Beyond re-branding ourselves in this way, the true challenge lies in leadership for holistic thrivability. And we cannot meet this challenge alone.

Read the Entire Article on Sustainable Brands

Dominican University of California Net Impact Chapter, a group of MBA students using the power of business to build a more socially and environmentally sustainable world, will host a discussion with Spencer Sherman, bestselling author and CEO of Abacus Wealth Partners, on Tuesday, March 6. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. in Guzman Lecture Hall. Free parking is available in the lot at the intersection of Grand and Acacia avenues in San Rafael.

Sherman will discuss his step-by-step plan for achieving greater prosperity, sustainability, and peace of mind — even in today's turbulent economy.

Report Overview

• Course: Operations Management
• Faculty Sponsor: Roberto Piccioni
• Publish Date: November, 2011
• Student Team: Kevin Bullock, Allison Lai, Leif Noble & Emily Olson
• Disclaimer: This work represent the ideas and research of a group of Green MBA students. It doesn’t purport to represent the views or endorsement from Dominican University or associated faculty members and staff.
• Copyright: This report is available for general use, not commercial use. Users of the report are urged to cite the Report when using associated content.
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Report Overview

• Course: Operations Management
• Faculty Sponsor: Roberto Piccioni
• Publish Date: November 12th, 2011
• Student Team: Peter Carlson, Erin Carrera, Cathe Cornellio, Will Freschi, Gregory Lake, Lisa Tamayo, Henry Tsai
• Disclaimer: This work represent the ideas and research of a group of Green MBA students. It doesn’t purport to represent the views or endorsement from Dominican University or associated faculty members and staff.
• Copyright: This report is available for general use, not commercial use. Users of the report are urged to cite the Report when using associated content.
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The Community Sustainability Commission in partnership with Dominican University of California is ready to launch the third series of Education and Public Outreach events titled: Sustainable Benicia: Energy. This series consists of four symposia with expert panelists prepared to inform us about a wide variety of areas related to energy.

As the largest emissions of Greenhouse Gases in Benicia stem from energy production and use, and our biggest potential financial costs or savings relate to energy, the series begins with setting a baseline of the major energy sources: Non Renewables (fossil fuels), Renewables, and Nuclear. From there the symposia drills down more deeply into Renewables, Energy Efficiencies and finally, policy and financing.

The symposia will be held the first Thursdays of February, March, April and May from 6 - 8:30PM at City Hall. Please come and engage with us on this critical topic for our city.