<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p><span></span></p><h1 style="font-family:"Miso Regular",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(167,192,57);margin:10px 0px 20px;padding:0px;display:block;line-height:38px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="4" style="">The Local Economy Solution: Driving Sustainability through Decentralized Economy Building + Local Investing</font></h1><div><font size="4"><b>Hunter Lovins in conversation with Michael H. Shuman</b></font></div><h3 style="color:rgb(167,192,57);margin:10px 0px 5px;padding:0px 0px 5px;font-size:1.4em;font-weight:200;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Business Stepping Up: The Lovins Series</h3><h3 style="margin:10px 0px 5px;padding:0px 0px 5px;font-size:1.4em;font-weight:200;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000">Thursday, April 19, 2018 | 7-9pm | LMHQ, 150 Broadway, 20th Fl, NYC</font></h3><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center"><strong><<<<<<span> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-local-economy-solution-driving-sustainability-through-decentralized-economy-building-local-tickets-42994976131?aff=SPN" style="color:rgb(167,192,57);text-decoration:underline">TICKETS HERE<span> </span></a>>>>>></strong><br> </div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">As President Trump pursues a regressive, isolationist agenda, business is stepping up to address climate change, promote equality and protect human rights, and create economic opportunity. Join sustainability pioneer<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.bard.edu/mba/people/faculty/index.php?id=987196" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(167,192,57);text-decoration:underline;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><strong>Hunter Lovins</strong></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>for a conversation series with industry experts to explore this shift in progressive business leadership.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Our April Business Stepping Up conversation will feature </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><b>Michael Shuman, local economies expert </b></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">and professor of Sustaining Mission at Bard's MBA in Sustainability. He will be discussing the movement towards economy localization, the growth of the "Small-Mart" Revolution, and what this all means in a sustainable business context.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Light refreshments provided.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Limited seating.</span><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center"><strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><<<<<<span> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-local-economy-solution-driving-sustainability-through-decentralized-economy-building-local-tickets-42994976131?aff=SPN" style="color:rgb(167,192,57);text-decoration:underline">TICKETS HERE<span> </span></a>>>>>></strong></strong></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><br><p></p><p><br></p><p><span>Katie Boyle M.S. ’07<br></span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Director, Enrollment and Marketing<br></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.bard.edu/mba" target="_blank">Bard MBA in Sustainability</a></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> and <a href="http://www.bard.edu/cep" target="_blank">Bard Center for Environmental Policy</a><br></span><b style="font-size:12.8px">t</b><span style="font-size:12.8px">: 845-758-7388 | </span><b style="font-size:12.8px">f</b><span style="font-size:12.8px">: 845-758-7636 | </span><b style="font-size:12.8px">e</b><span style="font-size:12.8px">: </span><a href="mailto:kboyle@bard.edu" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">kboyle@bard.edu</a></p></div></div></div></div>
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