Monthly Archives: October 2008
Nov. 21: Brewing a Successful Sustainability Program: A Case Study from a CA Brewing Co.
Brewing a Successful Sustainability Program: A Case Study from a CA Brewing Co.
Net Impact “Issues in Depth” Teleconference
Date: Friday, November 21st
Time: 11:00-12:00pm
Led By: Cheri Chastain, Environmental Sustainability Coordinator for Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
For Details and to Register: http://tinyurl.com/yze7q2
Listen in to hear how Sierra Nevada Brewing Co has successfully implemented sustainable business practices into all aspects of their operation. Learn how they have become almost 100% off the electrical grid, how CO2 and heat are recycled back into the plant, how recycling solid by products and veg oil can become profitable, and how to make transportation of goods less environmentally impactful. Sierra Nevada’s Sustainability Coordinator, Cheri Chastain, will discuss how Sierra Nevada markets their environmental program as well as challenges they have run across and how they were overcome.
About Cheri:
Cheri Chastain is the Environmental Sustainability Coordinator for Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. in Chico, CA. At Sierra Nevada, Cheri is responsible for educating employees on environmental issues and programs, runs the recycling and waste diversion program and energy conservation program, and manages the green house gas inventory and emission reductions projects. She also makes biodiesel, researches “green” procurement, and works to conserve and recycle water. Cheri has been with Sierra Nevada for two years and has worked in the environmental education field for six years. Cheri holds a Bachelor’s degree in physical geography and a Master’s degree in Environmental Geography.
Nov. 20: Third Thursday Happy Hour, Hosted by the Fletcher School Net Impact Chapter
Date: Thursday, November 20th
Time: 7:00-9:00pm
Location: John Harvard’s Brew House (33, Dunster Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge)
Come meet and mingle with fellow Net Impact members!
Nov. 16: November Book Discussion: “Hot, Flat, and Crowded”
November Book Discussion: “Hot, Flat, and Crowded”
Date: Monday, November 16th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Will be emailed to those who RSVP
RSVP: events@netimpact.org
Join us on the 16th to discuss Thomas Friedman’s “Hot, Flat, and Crowed.” In his latest book, Friedman tackles the environmental consequences of globalization — he calls for an American-centric solution to employ green innovation to save the world global warming, but to be a “national building” in America.
Friedman’s book will be sure to inspire rich discussion among Net Impacters. It addresses the looming effects of climate change, rapid population growth, and globalization — but also offers an optimistic view of how “geo-greenism” offers solutions to the energy crisis and can help reduce poverty.
From Amazon.com:
Thomas L. Friedman‘s phenomenal number-one bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see the world in a new way. In his brilliant, essential new book, Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest challenges we face today: America’s surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11; and the global environmental crisis, which is affecting everything from food to fuel to forests. In this groundbreaking account of where we stand now, he shows us how the solutions to these two big problems are linked–how we can restore the world and revive America at the same time.
Friedman explains how global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the astonishing expansion of the world’s middle class through globalization have produced a planet that is “hot, flat, and crowded.” Already the earth is being affected in ways that threaten to make it dangerously unstable. In just a few years, it will be too late to fix things–unless the United States steps up now and takes the lead in a worldwide effort to replace our wasteful, inefficient energy practices with a strategy for clean energy, energy efficiency, and conservation that Friedman calls Code Green.
This is a great challenge, Friedman explains, but also a great opportunity, and one that America cannot afford to miss. Not only is American leadership the key to the healing of the earth; it is also our best strategy for the renewal of America.
In vivid, entertaining chapters, Friedman makes it clear that thegreen revolution we need is like no revolution the world has seen. It will be the biggest innovation project in American history; it will be hard, not easy; and it will change everything from what you put into your car to what you see on your electric bill. But the payoff for America will be more than just cleaner air. It will inspire Americans to something we haven’t seen in a long time–nation-building in America–by summoning the intelligence, creativity, boldness, and concern for the common good that are our nation’s greatest natural resources.
Hot, Flat, and Crowded is classic Thomas L. Friedman: fearless, incisive, forward-looking, and rich in surprising common sense about the challenge–and the promise–of the future.
Read The New York Time‘s reviews here:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/books/review/Freedland-t.html?ref=books
The book’s website: http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/bookshelf/hot-flat-and-crowded
