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The urban answer to climate change: Rally a city to capture stormwater

CSB Director Tensie Whelan, CSB Senior Research Scholar Marianna Koval, and NRDC policy analyst Alisa Valderrama summarized their recent work on the CSB Green Infrastructure project for the New York Daily News.

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Tensie Whelan speaks at The CPA Journal's Supply Chain Panel

Tensie Whelan, Director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, spoke at the Second Annual Sustainability Investment Leadership Conference on May 17 at the New York City Bar Association in NYC.

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Sophie Rifkin Featured on the NYU Entrepreneurs Blog

Sophie Rifkin, Senior Associate Director of the CSB, spoke with Aya Abitbul about the role of businesses in tackling climate change

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Tensie Whelan Featured on GreenBiz Podcast

Associate Editor of GreenBiz, Anya Khalamayzer, interviews Tensie Whelan, clinical professor of Business and Society and Director of the NYU Stern Central Sustainable Business.

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Professor Whelan talks with MBA students about the Paris Agreement

Excerpt: "U.S. businesss face a challenging albeit exciting opportunity to step into the void left by the nation's withdrawal from the Paris Accord, says Tensie Whelan, Director of the Center for Sustainable Business at New York University's Stern School of Business." 

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Sustainable Finance: Director Whelan's Interview with Bloomberg

Excerpt: "companies with good sustainability performance tend to have lower risk and thus lower cost of capital," Tensie Whelan<

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"Want to use your money to change the world?" Director Whelan is interviewed about socially resonsible investing

Excerpt: "In this climate, 'consumers are in a mood to notice' a brand's values, Tensie Whelan, Director of the Stern Center for Sustainable Business at NYU Stern School of Business told Mic."

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Is Sustainability Sustainable in the Age of Trump?

"Let’s face it. This is now a legitimate question. GreenBiz Chairman Joel Makower spoke to the issue very directly in a February 2017 tweet:

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Tensie Whelan Feature

Tensie Whelan describes the lessons she learned that led to the new Center for Sustainable Business's slogan, "A Better World, Through Better Business ."