<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><div class="photo right" style="width: 180px; margin: 10px 0px 20px 15px; padding: 0px; float: right; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bard MBA in Sustainability is speaking with </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/svangendt" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(56, 181, 198); text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Saskia van Gendt</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Greenskeeping Manager for Method Home. </span><a href="http://methodhome.com/beyond-the-bottle/soap-factory/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(56, 181, 198); text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Method Home</a> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">makes beautiful cleaning products that are as kind to the planet as they are tough on dirt. The company recently opened the industry’s first LEED-platinum certified plant in the South Side of Chicago. Join us to learn more about how Method is setting the standard for clean manufacturing.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Saskia is Captain Planet for Method Products PBC based in San Francisco, California. Method designs cleaning and personal care products that work for people and the planet. With a background in lifecycle analysis and systems thinking, Saskia applies the science of sustainability with the strategy of business to influence and improve all aspects of company operations. She leads greenskeeping projects for North America covering packaging, ingredients, supply chain, green building, and third-party certifications through Cradle to Cradle and B Corp. Prior to Method, Saskia led material sustainability projects in packaging and green building at the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Join the Bard MBA in Sustainability program for our twice-monthly dial-in podcast series over your lunchtime featuring sustainability leaders from the New York City area and across the planet.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Dial in: 845-746-2287 </b><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(no need to enter a pin to join the call)</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><em style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Sustainable Business Fridays convenes every first and fourth Friday of the month during the semester, with special guests selected by students in the Bard MBA in Sustainability program. </em><div><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i><br></i></span></font><div><font color="#38b5c6" style="font-family: 'Miso Regular', Helvetica, 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Past Sustainable Business Fridays podcasts and transcripts can be found </span></font><a href="http://www.bard.edu/mba/publicprograms/sbfridays/archive/" style="font-family: 'Miso Regular', Helvetica, 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">here</a><font color="#38b5c6" style="font-family: 'Miso Regular', Helvetica, 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 19px;">.</span></font></div><div><font color="#38b5c6" style="font-family: 'Miso Regular', Helvetica, 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div></div></div></body></html>