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I recently helped NJHEPS and its partner Kean University win a three-year $180k pollution prevention grant from EPA Region 2 (which will be starting 1 January '10) to provide multiple workshops to help educate the nearly 400 colleges and universities within Region 2 (NY, NJ, PR, and the VI) on how to reduce their energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, thus allowing the schools to protect the environment while saving operating costs. Also in early January, I will be co-keynote speaker at the 9th annual International Business & Economy Conference (IBEC 2010) in Prague, the Czech Republic, partnering with a long-time business associate, Deutsche Telekom's Vice President and Representative of the Board of Management for Sustainability and Climate Change, Mr. Ignacio Campino. I will be speaking on "Corporate Sustainability Performance Goes Mainstream: Investment Metrics and Business Risks/Opportunities", while my friend Ignacio speaks on "Integrating Sustainability into Deutsche Telekom's Global Business Operations and Culture". IBEC 2010 is organized by a group of leading business schools from around the world, and I previously was a keynote at IBEC 2009 in Udaipur India speaking on "Water, the Next Big Sustainability Issue after Climate Change", and spoke at IBEC 2008 in San Francisco on "Metrics for Measuring Sustainability Performance- Latest Developments in the Financial and Higher Education Sectors".