Tamanna Mohapatra

November of 2014 was an exciting month for me. My semester was nearly over, I was going to sunny LA after having won a sweepstake (I know-how cool is that!) and finally all of my summer networking had paid off with the opportunity to take part in an actual Corporate Food Waste Audit. I was more than excited; I was ecstatic! I was going to help observe and log results of an all day food waste audit at one of the hippest corporate offices in NYC for one of the trendiest company

As part of one of my course works this semester, we were asked to read Andrew’s latest book called,’The Big Pivot’.  It was quite a fast and interesting read and full of concrete steps although sometimes it may feel like the steps are a little impractical to implement immediately in an established major company. The book’s title is taken from the reasoning that (in Andrew’s own words), ” We live in a fundamentally changed world. It’s time for your approach to strategy to chan

In December, I worked with our local netimpact chapter (netimpact.org) to organize a sustainability panel at the Rutger’s University Camden campus. One of the panelists was from Dupont; the chemical/engineering company. I didn’t know much on companie’s sustainability efforts and therefore decided to take Dupont as an example and study their sustainability efforts. So here are some interesting things I found out: 1. They have fixed goals to be achieved by 2015. So both measura