Biography
Dr. Stephanie Gripne is the University of Colorado Real Estate Center's Director for the Initiative for Sustainable Development and Associate Professor Adjoint. Stephanie Gripne is the founder of the Compatible Ventures, LLC. Stephanie is also a visiting professor at Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources teaching courses in Ecosystem Services, Carbon, and International Conservation Issues. Previously, Stephanie was responsible for Operations of the Eco Products Fund LP, a $100 million private equity fund jointly managed by New Forests Inc. of Washington, D.C., and Equator LLC of New York City.
Prior to the Eco Products Fund, Stephanie worked for The Nature Conservancy of Colorado where she focused on conservation real estate and conservation finance strategies that aimed to monetize ecosystem revenue streams. Stephanie has over 15 years of experience working in the natural resources arena for the USDA Forest Service, DOE Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Journal of Wildlife
Management, the Bureau of Land Management and several universities. Stephanie received her PhD from the Boone and Crockett Wildlife Conservation Program at the University of Montana and focused on conservation finance, conservation real estate and economic strategies that provide nonmarket goods and services.
She has a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Wildlife Management from the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point and a Masters in Ecology from Utah State University. Stephanie is an Environmental Leadership Senior Fellow, Property Environment Research Center Fellow and Advisory Council Member Ford Foundation Community Forestry Fellow and Boone and Crockett Professional Member.
Publications
Presentation
December 2010
Author: Stephanie Gripne
Overview and goals of the Initiative for Sustainable Development
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Courses
MBAX 6815: Survey of Best Practices in Sustainable Real Estate Development
MBA: Spring 2012
Introduction to Survey of Best Practices in Sustainable Real Estate Development is a graduate level survey course designed to explore sustainable real estate development from a financial and ecological perspective across several scales: from the built environment to land use to emerging environmental market asset classes to large landscape conservation. While the course is intended to be a survey course and expose you to a spectrum of topics, there will be opportunities to explore a topic in depth with your service learning external consulting project. The course is a service?learning based course and you will have opportunities to interact with our local community. These include guest speakers, an external consulting project and a short presentation, on the topic of your choice, to the larger Boulder community.
Syllabus
Past Events
Lecture
April 6, 2011
5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Koelbel S220
The Resource Appraisal: A Due Diligence Report for Energy/Resource Performance Retrofit Financing
Leeds School of Business Sustainability Speaker Series presents Scott Muldavin of CRE, FRICS, Executive Director, Green Building Finance Consortium and James Finlay of Wells Fargo Bank.
Lecture
March 8, 2011
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Koelbel 340
Leeds School of Business
Leeds Sustainability Speaker Series presents"For-Profit Conservation: Private Investment Strategies for Land Conservation", a panel presented by Kent Gilges of Conservation Forestry, LLC., Carl Palmer of Beartooth Capital Partners, and our very own LSB Alumni David Wolf of BSW Wealth Partners.
Lecture
March 1, 2011
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Koelbel 340
Leeds School of Business
Leeds School of Business Sustainability Speaker Series presents Dr. James White, Director of INSTAAR, the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Lecture
February 22, 2011
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Koelbel 340
Leeds School of Business
Leeds School of Business Sustainability Speaker Series presents "The ABC's of LCA", and will be given by Dr. John Heckman, Director at Five Winds International, one of the world's most experienced sustainability management consulting firms. Dr. Heckman will share tips, trends, and intel on the strategies used by leading companies to identify growth opportunities and manage supply chain risks. He will also explain "Life Cycle Analysis" (LCA), the various applications and where is the business value being realized.
Undergraduate
August 20, 2010
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Koelbel West Lawn
An annual event for Leeds staff, faculty, and students to welcome incoming students.
Video
MBA students learn from Leeds School Alum Kevin Knapp about sustainable redevelopment.
