Sustainable Enterprise Project

During Junior year, students develop and implement a business through the Sustainable Enterprise Project. This year-long project begins with students identifying a professional purpose that motivates them, developing a business idea, and crafting a business plan for a sustainable enterprise of their choice.  Businesses must meet a triple bottom line, demonstrating their benefits for people, the planet, and profits. At the culmination of the fall semester, students deliver pitches on their enterprises to a panel of mock investors. This panel then selects a handful of businesses to be implemented. The spring semester focuses on implementing the selected business plans in groups.

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Earth Week

Largely accredited to a blooming environmental awareness sparked by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, and following numerous industrial environmental disasters, the first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22nd, 1970. Millions…

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