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Recent Posts

Smeal Sustainability Advisory Board Profile - A Q&A With Uma Moriarity

Dr. Amaya Spoke on Sustainable Urban Logistics at Smeal's Recent Sustainability Research Seminar

Lara Fowler to Speak at Penn State's Sustainability Leadership Forum

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Erik Foley

MLK: The 3 Parts of Your Life's Blueprint

Martin Luther King, Jr on Nov 8, 1964. Image Credit: History.com One of our principles at the Smeal College of Business is to value and...

Erik Foley

Part 2 - The Offseason - How you spend your time is how spend your life

5 months of my time from 2017 tracked using Now Then If you missed Part 1, you can access it here. Fixed and Discretionary Time Costs In...

Erik Foley

Part I - How you spend your time is how spend your life

5 months of my time from 2017 tracked using Now Then I once heard that if you really want to know a person, find out how they spend their...

Erik Foley

Early Lessons: Setting Fire to the Lungs of the World

Doing my laundry in Ybycui, Paraguay in 1998 In 1996, I was standing in the middle of what was formerly a swath of rainforest. The tree...

Erik Foley

Ode to my father: dare mighty things

The one year anniversary of my father death is today. Hugh Miller Foley was a farm boy turned Olympian turned father, turned woodsman,...

Erik Foley

Poem: My Family is Supported by Timber Dollars

When I was a kid growing up in Montana. I remember seeing the bright, fluorescent yellow plywood signs in the pick-up truck's back...

Erik Foley

Subsistence economics

Some of my first lessons in business and economics came from subsistence fishermen and farmers in different places of the world. Not your...