Rachel Barge is a young (25), Berkeley, CA-based social entrepreneur passionate about employing enterprise-based solutions to solve the world’s most pressing environmental problems. A highly effective, renowned campus sustainability activist while at UC Berkeley, upon graduation she founded Campus InPower, a national consultancy that spread innovative financial mechanisms for campus sustainability projects and trained over 2,000 students from over 250 universities. Rachel then became the Director of the Business Council on Climate Change, a network of leading Bay Area companies committed to sharing best practices on climate solutions, and now works for Greenstart, a new cleantech startup accelerator. Rachel has won many awards, including the David Brower Youth Award, the nation’s top prize for young environmental leaders. (www.greenstart.com)
