Alan Ball is currently the chair of the Sustainability Alliance of Southern California.
During his career, as the Director of Business Services for Qualcomm Real Estate and Facilities (QREF) he actively promoted sustainability.
For more than 13 years working in Qualcomm’s corporate procurement, IT procurement and QREF procurement, Alan was an energy efficiency and green building advocate. Alan managed Qualcomm's inventory of greenhouse gas emissions through the California Climate Action Registry and constantly promoted sustainable practices at Qualcomm Inc..
Jay Baldwin, former technology editor for the Whole Earth Catalog and author of BuckyWorks: Buckminster Fuller's Ideas for Today (Wiley, 1996), provided students with insights into principles for sustainable design, and how business people can advance sustainably designed goods and services.
He critiqued the role business management has played in the past in destroying significant advances and potential profits by encouraging and rewarding conventional thinking. Students engaged in activities that encouraged whole-system thinking.
Michael Ben-Eli is an international consultant on management and organization, focusing on strategy development, organizational design, sustainability, and change management.
Given limited time, our participants scoured the Internet for data, graphs, maps, images, animations, videos and more. Their task was to imagine it was their job to convince policymakers of the challenges we face, and offer solutions.
Part of the experience was realizing that so much information is out there. There is a urgent need to gather, sort, and organize this information into a cohesive, clear picture of where we actually are and where we need to go.
