Alumnus starts a new 'Envirolution'

Thomas Kaplan Staff Reporter

While he was a student at Yale, Antuan Cannon’s ’06 choice to major in economics didn’t mean he couldn’t have an interest in the environment. But as Cannon and two of his friends and fellow Elis hit the job market, it seemed to be a different story.

“We wanted to find real estate jobs, but we were really hoping to find something with a green company, and we found that wasn’t very easy,” Cannon said. “There wasn’t that one Web site that you could find all those green resources — learning about all the issues, finding jobs, meeting people.”

With that frustration, the Envirolution was born. The nonprofit — an umbrella organization to help green businesses, other nonprofit organizations and environmentally minded individuals unite and collaborate — will kick off Saturday with its first conference, to be held on Old Campus.

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