MIIS Net Impact Chapter at 2011 Net Impact Conference in Portland Oct. 27-29



Net Impact's 2011 Conference "spotlights the the many unexpected places people find where good works." Activities include topics and innovations in sustainability and development ranging from supply chain to social networking innovation to clean tech. Stay tuned for MIIS Net Impact Reports from the field.

Expect a lot of Net Impact.



Product Stewardship Week!

By MIIS Net Impact, Student Sustainability Council, and the community at large's powers combined, Monterey Institute engages in Product Stewardship Week.

Help us help you reuse and recycle Monday through Friday, 12-2pm at Samson!



2009-2010 MIIS Net Impact Chapter Leader Highlighted on Global Stage for Sustainability Work

“Achieve climate neutrality as soon as possible.”

This was the lofty goal and public pledge the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) made in May 2007 when its president signed the American College & University President’s Climate Commitment. As a school that values global communities and sustainable development, MIIS didn’t take its commitment lightly—yet in the months that followed, administrators still lacked a strategy that would actually accomplish carbon neutrality.

Enter Clayton Snyder.

An International Economics undergrad from UCLA, Clayton was working in commercial real estate sales when he realized that he needed to do something with a little more meaning. “I wasn’t finding the full value of my existence,” he reflects. “I was just beginning to wake up to the reality of the global environmental crisis.”

After just a few months, Clayton went to work for Patagonia, a company he had grown to admire for its environmental commitment from founder Yvon Chouinard’s book Let My People Go Surfing. It was at Patagonia that Clayton became passionate about corporate social responsibility—specifically, he adds, about using “business as a tool to protect the environment.”

Read the whole story here