Sustainability Leadership Award Speaker Series features Virgin United president
April 19, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Jean Oelwang, the founding CEO and president of Virgin Unite and a member of the Penn State Smeal College of Business Board of Visitors, will lead a panel discussion in the inaugural Susman Sustainability Leadership Award Speaker Series at noon Wednesday, April 21.
The discussion, titled “Collective Courage: A Talk on Changing Business for Good,” will be held virtually via Zoom. Attendees are asked to register online.
Oelwang, a 1987 Smeal marketing alumna, is the first recipient of the Gerald I. Susman Sustainability Leadership Award. The award recognizes alumni and friends who demonstrate exceptional leadership in the advancement of sustainable business strategy, management and practice. Recipients achievements should support Smeal’s strategic pillar of accelerating the integration of sustainability in business.
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WEF’s ‘Mission Possible Partnership’ Aims To Destroy the Building Blocks of Human Society
Feb. 1 , 2021 (EIRNS) The World Economic Forum is the leading motivator of a new coalition of business and institutional powers which is now aiming to destroy the very building blocks of human society itself. Launched Jan. 27, the Mission Possible Partnership has set its sights on “decarbonizing” the cement, steel, aluminum and chemicals industries, “as well as the ships, planes, and trucks that move them.” Joining the WEF in this triage of humanity, are their executive arm, comprised of four “partners”: the Energy Transitions Commission (with 50 “commissioners” representing the largest financial and multinational institutions of Western society, led by Lord Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell) the Rocky Mountain Institute (founded 2004, “globalized” through a merger with Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room in 2014); and We M
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Here’s the mentality of your average journalist when it comes to global warming: Casually suggest that “some people are ashamed to fly” because of climate change. That’s what
CBS This Morning co-host Tony Dokoupil did on Thursday, lecturing Virgin Travel founder Richard Branson. Talking about the Paris Climate Accords, Dokoupil scolded, “The Biden administration has announced that America will reenter those accords to combat climate change and reduce greenhouse gases.
Your industry, travel, is the single greatest emitter of greenhouse gases.”
He then lectured the job creator, “
Some people are ashamed to fly because they think it s such a problem. You make money that way. What do you want the Biden administration to do to address the problem? What are you willing to do to address the problem?”
a day, because it gets to be nighttime, but you can store energy and send it back into the smart grid, so when you didn t need energy, you could give it to other people and when they didn t need energy, you could use their excess. we re dealing with new innovations that are going to be right around the corner that we can t even imagine right now, but some young student is about ready to discover it, as long as we unleash that innovation. we just lack the political will and the world can t wait. it s too urgent of a problem. so, what would a green, carbonless energy economy look like and what would the power sources be comprised of? wind, solar, tidal, maybe nuclear. joining me is a person who can answer those questions and has spent his career using his entrepreneurial skills and enthusiasm to help foment a green energy revolution. he started his own solar energy company, sun edison, and sold it for more than a few dollars. he was then chairperson of the carbon war room and now run