
Valerie Nibler studied under the Presidio School of Management Sustainable MBA program. She has an undergraduate degree from U.C. Berkeley in Operations Research and over 17 years experience as a project manager and business analyst in the energy and financial services industries. Her area of interest is financial innovations that promote sustainability, and she is currently working on a venture plan involving the use of complementary currencies to promote energy efficiency.
Resource efficiency and closed-loop manufacturing are not new concepts in sustainable business; what is new is an economic slowdown that threatens to undermine our urgency to act on climate change.