Beril Toktay and Michael Oxman of the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business share their reflections on sustainablity at the Center and Atlanta at large with Sustainable Brands on the occasion of the Center's 5th Anniversary

This year, the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business at Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business celebrates its fifth anniversary. It launched in 2013 as the Center for Business Strategies for Sustainability with funding from the Foundation and others, and in January 2015 the Foundation made a $5 million commitment. It was then renamed for Ray C. Anderson.

A Georgia Tech undergraduate student teamed up with Chick-Fil-A staff over the summer to reduce millions of pounds of heat-trapping greenhouse gases while delivering significant cost savings.

The Foundation trustees and staff recently held their annual meeting with faculty, staff and students from the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainability at Georgia Tech's Scheller College of Business. While the growth and success of the Center's programs are obvious, two other key themes stood out.

Here's a quarterly roundup of articles from the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business from October 2017 - February 2018

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The Ray C. Anderson Foundation's NextGen Commitee Helped Fund the expansion of the Carbon Reduction Challenge into Georgia Tech's Co-op and Internship programs. The winning team had two members from the Scheller College of Business and four students from Ray's alma mater - Industrial and Systems Engineering

The 10th cohort of students to participate in the Carbon Reduction Challenge at the Georgia Institute of Technology gathered on August 14th in a crowded atrium full of eager visitors. These students came prepared to present their solutions for reducing carbon emissions across a diverse set of 15 organizations that hosted Georgia Tech interns and co-op students this past summer.

The Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business is creating the next leaders to take on carbon reduction through an innovative co-curricular initiative launched in partnership with the College of Sciences and partially funded by the Ray C. Anderson Foundation.