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Highlights From the IGEL Blog:

Natural Gas is the Energy Game-Changer: Report from the Wharton Energy Conferenceby Caroline DAngelo (Excerpt)John Rowe CEO of Exelon was the opening keynote speaker of the Wharton Energy Conference today at theUnion League in Philadelphia. Throughout the day, Rowe and other experts extolled the benefits of naturalgas, calling it a complete game changer for energy production. The Marcellus shale play is a light in a badeconomy, Rowe said, making natural gas much cheaper than almost every other energy production. In theshort term, natural gas cheap prices puts tremendous pressure on alternative energy development, said AdamUmanoff, partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Field LLP To read more click here>>

Careers in Energy and Corporate Efficiency: IGEL Career Eventby Amanda Byrne, MES Student(Excerpt) Two utility

employees participated on the second panel of IGELs October 5th

event Careers in Sustainability, Energy and Business and discussed many ways they are driving those types of efforts within their companies. Rye Barcott, commercial associate inthe Sustainability Office of Duke Energy, and Melanie Dickersbach, Climate and Environment Strategy Manager at ExelonCorporation, both talked about their work to move their companies to a more sustainable and environmentally-friendly frame-

workTo read more click here>>

Filling the Freshwater Gap with Desalinated Water,by Jaivime Evaristo, MSAG Student(Excerpt) Recent designimprovements in seawater desalination have reduced the cost prices quite considerably such that they are now pro-

jected to crossthe marginal cost prices of conventional water procurement and treatment, thereby, increasing theeconomic viability of desalination in the next few years To read more click here>>

Sustainable Metrics: Insights from the First Morning Session of the Future of Sustainable Business Metrics Confer-enceby Caroline DAngelo (Excerpt) Jules Peck, chair of Edelmans sustainability group and trustee of the New EconomicFoundation, spoke next via video. Peck argued that ever-increasing amounts of stuff and unlimited economic growth is inher-ently unsustainable and is becoming impossible due to resources constraints. We are living beyond our resource availabilityif everyone on the planet lived like the British or Americans, we would need 3-5 earths respectively. Instead, he argued that itis possible to have a zero-growth economy while increasing well-being To read more click here>>

IGEL Fall Newsletter 2011IGEL Fall Newsletter 2011Dear Friends of IGEL,

The new academic year is in full swing and IGEL has been hard at work since our last update! OurKnowledge@Wharton report CanVenture Capital Really Influence Environmental Sustainability reportwaspublished after our successful panel at the Wharton Global Alumni Forum, thanks to the generous support ofBank of America. We hosted, along with MBA Career Management and Wharton Program for Social Impact(WPSI), a Careers in Sustainabilityevent, with more than 100 students and several of our corporate adviso-ry board members in attendance. The field of sustainability metrics for busi-ness also got a push forward Sustainable Life Medias October 24th conference,, which was held at Wharton. Our student volunteers have been blogging andconducting video interviews for these events (see excerpts from the blog be-low). The extremely successful October 28th student-run Wharton Energy Con-ference was co-sponsored by IGEL, and is another feather in our cap. We alsokicked off a new WPSI/IGEL speaker series October 13th by inviting Roland

Van De Meer, Chairman at Bio-Logical Capital, to speak on campus about inte-gratingbusiness and conservation.

The spring is just as full with exciting new events and teaching opportunities.We are aiming to take sustainability leadership to a new level with the start of

the SAP/IGEL Executive Education Certificate Program on Business Sustaina-bility Leadership in June 2012 at Wharton San Francisco. Here at Penn, IGELhas been supporting an ongoing interdisciplinary case competition with theU.S. Department of Energy on public electric vehicle charging, as well as a newclean tech competition run by Penn International Sustainability Association(PISA). We have six speakers coming to campus over the next few months forthe IES/IGEL Seminar Series,including Craig Isakow of Johnson Controls(11/16), Jeff Bladen of the Mark Group (11/30) and Erin Meezen of Interface(12/7).We are also conducting research for a report on forest certification andeco-labels in anticipation of our next Environmental Leadership Speaker Se-ries with the Wharton Global Alumni Forum in Jakarta in June 2012. Also onour website under Research, you can find a new series of one pagers on specific

sustainability topics.

Thank you for all of your support as we work to make Wharton and Penn theacademic driver for solving the most pressing environmental issues. Pleasecheck out our website, blog and social media, and dont hesitate to get in touchif youd like to be involved!

Sincerely,

Joanne Spigonado

Associate Director, IGEL

Upcoming Events:Upcoming Events:

The IES/IGEL Seminar Series

Welcomes: (All events Noon-1:30pm)

Nov. 16, 2011Craig Isa-

kow, Wharton Alum and Pro-

gram Director, Global Energy

and Sustainability, Johnson

Controls

Nov. 30, 2011 Jeff Bladen, Chief

Commercial Officer, Mark

Group, Inc.Dec. 7, 2011 Erin Meezan, Vice

President of Sustainability,

Interface

Feb. 15, 2012 Marilee McInnis,

Southwest Airlines

March 21, 2012 Eric Lowitt, au-

thor, Future of Value

April 4, 2012 Charlene Wall, Sus-

tainability Leader at BASF

Other IGEL Events:Other IGEL Events:

April 26, 2012 - IGEL 5th Annual

Conference-Workshop. Topicis Greening the SupplyChain. Save the date!

June 11-14, 2012 SAP/IGELExecutive Education ProgramBusiness Sustainability Lead-ership

June 22-24, 2012 Bank ofAmerica/IGEL Panel on theGreening of Indonesia at theWharton Global Alumni Fo-rum.

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