Sustainability and Changing the Way We Do Business
Sissel Waage
Wednesday, 12 Nov 2003 at 3:10 pm – Gold Room, Memorial Union
A Conversation with Sissel Waage, Ph.D., Director of the Sustainability Research Group for The Natural Step, San Francisco, California. The Natural Step provides a visionary blueprint for a sustainable world. Their upstream approach addresses problems at the source and turn them into opportunities for innovation. As an international advisory and research organization, the organization works with some of the largest resource users on the planet to create solutions, models and tools designed to accelerate global sustainability.
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