Next Step on the Path of What’s Next: Marylhurst MBA

Phew! I'm Done. Wait? I haven't started yet.

Well, I have placed one more cobble in my path to what’s next and realized as I was typing that phrase how terrible it was/is: anachronistic, and a bit dull.  Nevertheless, good news! I was accepted into Marylhurst’s MBA in Sustainability program. Never heard of Marylhurst? Neither had I until I began researching schools that provided  programs centered around the sustainable business principles. Most schools have single tracks or maybe a class or two within their MBA program but Marylhurst’s appears to be one of the few with a program devoted to it. And they let you take the program online, which really makes sense as it not particularly sustainable to have people driving to a campus. However, having said that, I am trying to arrange a flight out there to meet some of the professors and get a look at the university so I’ll probably blow through all those saved carbon credits.

What I am really hoping to do is combine my experience and love of technology and all things Web with the importance of sustainable business practices. I read a pretty good article about just that called
Technology as the enabler of sustainability; the ideas the author described really resonated with me and I’m interested to learn more about the role of technology in promoting sustainability beyond comments and blog posts.

In the meantime, there are a couple of networking events this week.

Tomorrow is the Boulder Open Coffee Club at Atlas Purveyons on Pearl St. in Boulder at 8am and then there is Sustainable Ventures on Wed at 5:45 in Denver at Greenspaces Colorado, 1368 26th St., Denver, Co 80205. I don’t know if I’ll get to both but definitely one.

The job hunt continues but at least I can now eliminate those companies that don’t want resumes from the unemployed from my list. Really if I weren’t a innately optimistic person, I might be having a nervous break down right now.