Walter Stahel was our guest speaker at the
16th annual Chung-Watson Free Lecture Series
in Business Ethics in April, 2010
View Walter Stahel student presentation
View Walter Stahel public lecture
View Walter Stahel poster
Mr. Stahel is considered by many as one of the founding fathers of modern industrial sustainability, mainly for his ground breaking 1979 research into the relationship between manpower and energy use in which it was discovered that roughly three-quarters of all industrial energy consumption is associated with the extraction and/or production of basic materials.
To spread awareness of his discovery, Mr. Stahel coined the term "cradle-to-cradle' and co-founded the Product Life Institute in Geneva, Switzerland (Europe's oldest sustainability based research center and think tank) and wrote The Performance Economy.
