Sustainability Conference At Vanderbilt

I like citizen journalism more and more each day. It allows me to learn about events like the Net Impact Conference that is being hosted this year at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management, and pass that learning along to you.

Net Impact, which was founded in 1993 by MBA students to foster socially-responsible business leaders, is using this year's conference to show what's being done by the business community on sustainability. It has brought together an impressive list of speakers from Yvon Chouinard, the founder of outdoor gear retailer Patagonia to John Replogle, CEO of Burt's Bees and Andy Savitz, author of "The Triple Bottom Line" to talk about subjects like the greening of the music and fashion industries.

The conference wraps tomorrow, November 3, but a group of bloggers from Owen has captured a lot of details about all of the proceedings here. Vanderbilt offers an undergraduate degree in earth and environment sciences as well as master's and Ph.D degrees in Environmental Engineering.