Info and publications
New York Social Media Week: New business models for social change
NYC Social Media Week: New Business Models to Convert Human Intent into Tangible Action (panel discussion)
Speakers: James Slezak (Purpose.com), Sam Espinosa (Director of Marketing, StickK), Emily Fisher (Online Editor, Oceana), Wayne Lin (Opower), John C. Havens (Yoxi.tv), Dan Vallejo (CEO & Co-Founder, The Mutual)
Date: Thursday, February 16th 2012, 6:00pm—11:00pm
Link to official page at socialmediaweek.org
The Guardian: How to scale up sustainable business (online discussion)
The Guardian: How to scale up sustainable business (online discussion)
Contributors: James Slezak (Purpose.com), Randall Krantz (head of sustainability, World Economic Forum), Toby Quantrill (head of policy, Fairtrade Foundation), Charles Roberts (CEO, Greeenstar), Craig Simmons (co-founder, Best Foot Forward)
Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Record of live discussion at Guardian.co.uk
Climate Change and Australia (Federation Press, 2012)
Climate Change and Australia (Federation Press, 2012)
Co-authored with: Ben Saul, Steven Sherwood, Jane McAdam, Tim Stephens
Link: Book description and publication details at Federation Press
SXSW (South by Southwest) 2012, Austin TX
Creative Energy: Renewing the fight for renewables
Panelists: James Slezak (Purpose.com), Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Edward Morris (The Canary Project), Tara DePorte (Human Impacts Institute)
Date: Saturday, March 10, 2012
Columbia Business School, Social Enterprise Conference 2011
Engaging Constituencies: Inspiring and Mobilizing Talent and Capital
Moderator: Teresa Puente (Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University)
Speakers: James Slezak (Head of Business Strategy, Purpose), Richard Robbins (Director of Digital Social Innovation, MWW), Courtney Roberts (Dexis Consulting Group), Susan Tenby (TechSoup Global).
Link: Columbia Business School Social Enterprise Conference 2011
Details: Friday October 7, 2011, 5:00–6:00PM at Alfred Lerner Hall, Broadway and 115th Street, Columbia University, New York
Columbia Earth Institute (Gradate Industrial Ecology): Guest lecture
Sustainability and Social Change
Course: Industrial Ecology, graduate class
Professor: Chritoph Meinrenken
Details: Monday October 3, 2011, 7:00-8:00 PM, 516 Hamilton Hall, Columbia Morningside Campus (Broadway and 116th Street), New York
Stanford Social Innovation Review
An Opportunity to Bolster Development Through Tax Collection
Co-author: Dan Altman (Dalberg Global Development Advisors)
Link: D. Altman, J. Slezak; Stanford Social Innovation Review (2011)
American Institute for Graphic Arts / Galapagos
Designing Activism: Graphic Arts, Propaganda and the Green Movement
Hosts: AIGA, Galapagos, Susan Szenasy (Metropolis magazine)
Panelists: James Slezak (Purpose.com), Michael Bierut (Pentagram), DJ Spooky (Paul Miller), Ed Morris (Canary Project), Jeremy Osborn (350.org), Dmitri Siegel (Urban Outfitters)
Details: Tuesday 26 April 2011, 6:30–8:30PM at Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
SXSW (South by Southwest) 2011, Austin TX
Inspired Action: New Approaches to Saving the Planet
Hosts: FastCompany, CauseShift, PepsiCo
Panelists: James Slezak (Purpose.com), Robert Murray (National Geographic) / moderated by Scott Henderson and Ann Mai Bertelsen (CauseShift)
Location: PepsiCo Plugged-In Stage at SXSW (Austin Convention Center, Meeting Room 2) // also live via webcast from FastCompany and PepsiCo
Date: Sunday March 13, 4:30 PM CST
Pathways to an Energy and Carbon Efficient Russia
Published by McKinsey & Company, with S. Solzhenitsyn, V. Klintsov, P.-A. Enkvist, T. Visek, Y. Solzhenitsyn, I. Shvakman and K. Schneiker, 2009