March 2007 | The Global Intelligencer

To build a school it takes three cups of tea

by Cate Montana

BOZEMAN, MT - KORPHE, Pakistan – For 600 years the tiny village of Korphe remained isolated from the rest of the world, perched high on a cliff over the Braldu River deep in the inaccessible reaches of northern Pakistan’s Karakoram mountain range. The people of Korphe toiled for a meager existence, channeling melt waters from the glaciers into rocky fields and apricot orchards. The nearest doctor was a week’s walk away. The village children suffered from a form of malnutrition, and one in three babies died before reaching their first birthday.

In September 1993, the world of Korphe changed, and so did the life of an exhausted American mountain climber. Separated from his team after a failed summit attempt on K2, the world’s second highest mountain known to climbers as “The Savage Peak,” Greg Mortenson was lost and didn’t even know it.

Bainbridge Graduate Institute - business savvy creates sustainable futures

by Cathy Ellis

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, WA – While other business schools and MBA programs around the U.S. scramble to tack a few courses about sustainability into their existing programs, Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI) is pioneering a new form of business education where ethical and socially responsible frameworks for management and sustainability issues are woven into every course. Ranked # 1 in Net Impact’s Student Guide to Graduate Business Programs (Net Impact is an international organization of more than 10,000 business leaders, experts, entrepreneurs and students ) BGI is setting the standards and the pace on environmentally and socially responsible business education.

Founded in the fall of 2002 by Gifford and Elizabeth Pinchot, co-founders of Pinchot & Company, and Sherman Severin,former chairman of Marylhurst University’s Graduate Department of Management, Bainbridge Graduate Institute was established with the intent of making business a force for viable social and environmental uplift and change.