DriveNeutral Colorado is a collaboration between the University of Colorado at Boulder Environmental Center and Presidio School of Management’s DriveNeutral, a grassroots, nonprofit organization that enables people like you to act today to stop global warming. DriveNeutral was founded in the summer of 2005 by MBA students in the innovative Sustainable Management program at the San Francisco-based Presidio School of Management. When you join DriveNeutral, you join a collaborative, nationwide effort. Here’s what makes us unique:
- Education: DriveNeutral is the one of the only organizations focusing on outreach and education in addition to providing offset services. We teach you everything you need to know about climate change and we show you ways to reduce your own carbon footprint.
- Collaboration: Through its membership in the Chicago Climate Exchange, DriveNeutral allows you to collaborate with large corporations, educational institutions, and municipalities to stop global warming. In other words, you offset your own carbon emissions by stimulating companies to reduce theirs.
- Action: Global warming is happening now. So, it follows that stopping global warming means acting now. Maybe you’ve done all you can to reduce your own emissions. When you offset the remainder through DriveNeutral, you’re also sending a message that climate change and renewable energy matter to you.
DriveNeutral collaborates with companies and many other organizations to offset emissions. Whether you’re a nationally touring band or a major corporation, we can help you assess your footprint and then neutralize what you can’t reduce. Not only do these organizations neutralize their own emissions, but in many cases they also neutralize those of their employees and customers. Here is list of our most recent collaborators:
- DuPont
- Applus Technologies
- Roadshow Services
- Executive Chef Services
- Colorado University
- Portion Pac, Inc.
- California Resource Recovery Association
- Omega Institute
- Greenline Industries
- Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
In the spring of 2004, the Presidio School of Management became an associate member of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). As the first college in California to join CCX, the School pledged to fully offset greenhouse gas emissions from its electricity use, travel, and fuel consumption.
DriveNeutral launched two summers later, founded by Presidio MBA students Jason Smith, Kim Fox, Jurgen Vos, and Bob Gower, and Board Member Shep Burton. DriveNeutral extended the School’s CCX membership to the public, enabling individuals to offset their own emissions and to develop emerging markets for greenhouse gas emission reductions. All four founding students have since graduated. Jason Smith has continued on with DriveNeutral as its full-time CEO.
DriveNeutral continues to offer hands-on, real-world educational opportunities for Presidio MBA students as a self-sustaining, non-profit outreach campaign.
The Presidio School of Management in San Francisco, California offers a unique, two-year MBA program in Sustainable Management that integrates social, ethical, and environmental values into every course. Since 2003, the program has succeeded as a collaborative learning community committed to sustainability. With a Presidio MBA, students get the training and skills they need to implement sustainable initiatives in an organizational setting. Presidio is affiliated with Alliant International University, which is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).
The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) is North America’s only, and the world’s first,
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions registry, reduction and trading system for all six greenhouse gases (GHGs), of which CO2 dominates. CCX also owns and operates the European Climate Exchange (ECX) which is the largest emissions trading framework in the world. CCX is a self-regulatory, rules based exchange designed and governed by CCX Members. Members make a voluntary but legally binding commitment to reduce GHG emissions. By the end of Phase I (December, 2006) all Members will have reduced
direct emissions 4% below a baseline period of 1998-2001. Phase II, which extends the CCX reduction program through 2010, will require all Members to reduce GHG emissions 6% below baseline. Current CCX members include Ford Motor Company, IBM, Motorola, DuPont, Dow Corning, Waste Management and Bayer Corporation. The total emissions from CCX members exceed those of Great Britain.
www.chicagoclimateexchange.com
Management Team
Jason Smith, Founder and Director
Jason co-founded DriveNeutral while he was still an MBA student at the Presidio School of Management. After graduating in 2006, Jason devoted his efforts to DriveNeutral full-time as its CEO. Jason’s experience in marketing, sustainability, and education have proven to be valuable assets in DriveNeutral’s pioneering status in automotive greenhouse gas reduction. In conjunction with DriveNeutral’s Advisory Board, Jason has implemented numerous CO2 offset initiatives at such organizations as DuPont and American Electric Power. Jason’s appearances in such publications as Time Magazine, NPR’s Marketplace and the San Jose Mercury News have promoted DriveNeutral on a national scale. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma.
Joe Madden, Director of Business Development
A Presidio School of Management Class of 2007 student with a B.A. in Economics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Joe coordinates national sales initiatives for Key Accounts. He transitioned out of a successful decade in Transport Logistics with Transgroup Worldwide Logistics. There, Joe was consistently recognized on a national scale as a top producer and managed comprehensive, long term partnerships with clients such as Franklin Templeton, Amcor/Sunclipse, Legget and Platt, and Rapid Displays. His experience in national account coordination and systems integration are critical to DriveNeutral’s effort to cultivate innovative and flexible GHG reduction strategies for our larger clients.
Jessica Williams, Director of Outreach and Communications
Jessica started her business career as a co-founder and director of the educational web-based nonprofit, GlobaLearn. She then spent five years working with AlphaSmart, an educational technology company as a sales rep and Eastern US sales manager. She has also been the administrative director and on the board of directors for Green Street Studios, a cooperative dance center in Cambridge, MA. She received a BA in Intercultural Relations from New York University, an MAT in English from Quinnipiac University, and is currently working on a MBA in Sustainable Management at the Presidio School of Management.
Pablo Paster, Engineering Consultant
Pablo holds a B.S. in Manufacturing Engineering from Cal Poly, and an MBA in Sustainable Management at Presidio School of Management. He currently works with Natural Capitalism Solutions, Origo Business Consulting, has served as Manufacturing Engineer for DEL Ozone and Design Engineer for Clearwater Tech, LLC, both in San Luis Obispo. In 2003 Pablo worked with the prestigious Wuppertal Institute in Germany on a project to improve the eco-efficiency of textile production in the developing world. While at the Wuppertal Institute he worked closely with the developers of MIPS, a tool for assessing the material intensity of products and services. At Cal Poly, Pablo founded the Campus Sustainability Initiative (CSI) which led to the adoption of numerous campus sustainability policies as well as the California State University (CSU) system’s recent announcement of the country’s strongest sustainability policy for a university system.
Edward West, Technical Consultant
Edward holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University, and is working towards his MBA (expected graduation date, May 2007) at the Presidio School of Management. He has done projects with Natural Capitalism Solutions, Squid Labs, and a number of other start-ups. He has worked for D2M, Inc. and Velocity11 as a Mechanical Design Engineer, primarily working on consumer products and laboratory automation robotics. He has a background in lightweight electric vehicle design and fabrication, and, outside of engineering, he has deep interest in marshalling social networks to create societal and technological value, as well as a background in philosophy, developmental psychology, and studio art.
C. Shepherd Burton, PhD, Presidio School of Management’s Board Vice-Chair
Shep earned a B.S. in Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Texas at Austin. A former President of Systems Applications, Inc., he was also Executive Vice-President of ICF Kaiser International and Chief Scientist for the Rockwell International Science Center. A member of the EPA Science Advisory Board, Shep has 30 years’ experience in business and project management and holds three patents on devices measuring atmospheric metals.
L. Hunter Lovins, J.D., Presidio School of Management’s Co-Chair of Sustainability
Hunter teaches the Principles of Sustainable Management and Implementation of Sustainable Business Practices courses at the Presidio School of Management. Hunter was co-founder and CEO of Rocky Mountain Institute. A member of the California Bar, she has co-authored dozens of papers and nine books, including the landmark work, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. She has consulted for governments and the private sector, briefing senior management at Interface Inc., Bank of America, Allstate, Royal Dutch/Shell and many other companies, as well as the World Bank & International Monetary Fund. She holds a J.D. degree from Loyola University and several honorary doctorates. In 2000, she was named a Hero of the Planet by Time Magazine.
Richard M. Gray, PhD—Presidio School of Management’s Board Secretary
Dr. Gray holds a B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) from Bucknell University, an M. Div. (summa cum laude) from San Francisco Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley. He was with N.W. Ayer, a national advertising agency, for 16 years, and was Ayer’s Detroit Creative Director. As founding president of World College West, Dr. Gray raised $13 million in 15 years to establish the college and build its environmentally designed 200-acre campus.
F. Byron Nahser, M.B.A., Ph.D., Presidio School of Management’s Provost
Former chairman, president, and CEO of The Nahser Agency of Chicago, Dr. Nahser is an MBA graduate of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management with a Ph.D. in American Business Philosophy from DePaul University. Byron authored Learning to Read the Signs: Reclaiming Pragmatism in Business, he has developed a consultative business model known as ‘Pathfinder: Pragmatic Inquiry’ which has been used by 3-M, Levi-Strauss, Time, Inc., Stanford University Business School, and many other organizations.
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