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Sustainability

Babson has been working to reduce our impact on the environment and the climate for decades, but now we’re taking it up a notch.

All across the Babson campus there are staff, students and faculty tackling issues of sustainability and resource efficiency and working to solve these integrated challenges. In the summer of 2010, we opened the Babson Sustainability Office to support, enhance and coordinate these efforts.

Babson is a signatory of the American College and University President’s Climate Commitment and we take our obligations seriously. In addition, we are a business school, aimed at educating tomorrow’s entrepreneurs and innovators. Babson is committed to integrating social and economic sustainability concepts into the business practices of this next generation of leaders and to create resilient, sustainable prosperity. We invite you to explore our actions, commitments and initiatives, and to share your ideas for making Babson, and society, more sustainable.

Upcoming Events
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
MLK Legacy Day
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5:00 PM

BABSON IS PLEASED TO PRESENT THE NINTH ANNUAL MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. LEGACY DAY

The Quest for Equality: Empathy and Global Justice in a Divided World

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 • 5 p.m.
Carling-Sorenson Theater
featuring keynote speaker:
Rinku Sen

Come together to reflect on the work and teachings of Dr. King, and the efforts that continue in his name today.

NOMINATE
A MEMBER OF THE BABSON COMMUNITY FOR
THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. LEADERSHIP AWARD

ENTER
• THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. SPEECH CONTEST
• THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. CREATIVITY CONTEST

DEADLINE
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012

See the attached information sheet for full details.
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5:00 PM
Thursday, March 01, 2012
Mass Mentoring Lemonade Day Webinar
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Online
Event Description
Join Lemonade Day Boston for a webinar on Thursday March 1st at 11am to learn about how your mentoring organization can implement this experiential leadership program with your students.

Once registered, you will receive a calendar invitation to add this event on your personal calendar. Alternatively, you may add this event to your calendar by choosing one of the calendar options on the upper right side of this page.

To Join the session, at 11am:

1. Go to your Adobe Connect session URL: http://babson.adobeconnect.com/welcome 2. With "Enter as a Guest" selected, type your first and last name
3. Click the "Enter Room" button
4. You will be able to answer questions via chat messages.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Online
Women Who Make a Difference Dessert Recept...
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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Babson Campus - Olin Hall - Needham/Wellesley Room
To register for this event, please respond with your name to: EMO@babson.edu
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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Babson Campus - Olin Hall - Needham/Wellesley Room
Monday, March 05, 2012
Catalyze Change Workshop Series
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4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Are you someone who wants to use business as a force for good? Are you hoping to shift the status quo toward a more just and sustainable world? Do you want to be better prepared to effectively navigate the increasingly complex, uncertain, unknowable, fast-moving, fast-changing and ambiguous world you will face as you move into the next chapter of your life?
 
If this describes you, join us for Catalyze Change, the innovative workshop series presented by The Lewis Institute for Social Innovation, to hone your skills in being a change maker and a social innovator. These six sessions will help you use your business skills and know-how to mobilize people and resources to create sustainable and scalable solutions to social and environmental challenges in a way that integrates your impulse to do good with your impulse to do well.
 
Series topics will include:
  • What is “social innovation?” What makes it matter? Why should it matter to you?
  • What matters to you?: Clarifying your own values to create a compass for moving into and facilitating positive impact in the world
  • Systems thinking: All social and environmental challenges are systemic. Learn about recognizing, understanding and effectively intervening in systems.
  • Relationships, networks and stakeholders: All organizations and projects are fundamentally networks of relationships and conversation. Learn about conversation as strategy.
  • Design: What does it mean to take a design orientation in making a positive difference in the world? A design orientation facilitates making commitment real through products, services and processes.
  • Moving others to action: Enrollment and the power of story.

Please email ltarr1@babson.edu for registration information.
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4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Thursday, March 08, 2012
joinFITE
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4:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Babson Campus - The Blank Center

The entire Babson community is welcome to network, relax and enjoy mini spa treatments while learning how KIVA helps women entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses through joinFITE on March 8. Dermalogica and Keldara Salon & Spa will share their experience on how they’ve helped women entrepreneurs around the world. Sponsored by the Blank Center, The Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership and the Lewis Institute.

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4:30 PM - 7:30 PM | Babson Campus - The Blank Center

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