Author Billy Parish will walk through some practical exercises and read from the book Making Good, sharing stories of how people have found opportunities to make money by rebuilding industries—from alternative energy to food, fashion and education.

About Making Good:

With unemployment among new college grads estimated to be as high as 54%, and some 8.5% of people out of work in the US, so many young Americans are resigning themselves to jobs that simply pay the bills. Yet there is still a deep desire to do something good for our world. For three years, two prominent young social entrepreneurs, Billy Parish and Dev Aujla interviewed hundreds of Millennials and distilled their experiences to give readers real advice on how to build thriving and meaningful careers. The authors discovered that making money and doing good are no longer separate spheres—they are coming together. The solution to our jobs crisis is the same solution to our ecological and social crises—creating jobs that do good.

About the authors:

Billy Parish is widely known as social entrepreneur, innovative youth organizer, and champion of the emerging green economy. In his early twenties, he co-founded the Energy Action Coalition and grew it into the largest youth advocacy organization in the world working on climate change issues. He is also the co-founder and president of Solar Mosaic, a solar energy marketplace; and serves on numerous nonprofit and cleantech boards. Parish lives in Oakland, CA.

Dev Aujla is the founder of DreamNow, a charitable organization that works with young people to develop, fund, and implement their social change projects. Dev has also worked for leading companies that do good and pay well like GOOD/Corps and Change.org. His work and writing have been featured in numerous media outlets, including the Globe and Mail, CBC Newsworld, and the Huffington Post. Aujla divides his time between Toronto and New York.

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