"Whether it's about feeling good or about the bottom line, there is still a case for sustainability," said Shannon Oliver, MBA '13. For Oliver, this was a key takeaway from the Center for Sustainable Business Practice's recent Seattle trip. She was one in a cohort of seventeen MBA students who spent three days this April meeting with managers at a variety of organizations, including REI, Starbucks, Costco, and Microsoft. During their tour of the Seattle Mariners' Safeco Field, the group saw how a simple change--removing trash cans--could shift customer behavior and divert 81 percent of the ballpark's waste from landfills. Among other activities during the trip, recent grad Hendrik Van Hemert, MBA '11, hosted the group at innovative engineering group McKinstry and discussed what it's been like to bring his MBA skills to an engineer-dominated workplace. At Alaska Airlines, environmental affairs manager Jacqueline Drumheller talked about evangelizing sustainability from within a corporation. As Oliver put it, "that's what we're in school to learn about: how to make the case for sustainability for each and every business--and how to speak their language."