The Center for Small Business and the Environment promotes the use of clean energy, leveraging the power of small businesses and entrepreneurial creativity to protect the environment while creating jobs and economic growth through resource conservation and development.
The CBSE Team
Our small team is a multi-disciplinary group of professionals committed to clean energy and climate resilience.
Scott Sklar is a global leader in clean energy and President of The Stella Group, Ltd. Since 2000, a strategic policy and clean technology optimization global owner’s-rep firm facilitating clean distributed energy utilization, custom blending renewable energy, energy storage and high-value energy-efficiency with financing, policy and standardization. He has been Adjunct Professor at The George Washington University.
Cecilia Ciepiela-Kaelin is a leader and consultant in sustainable development and urban planning with 15+ years of experience advancing innovative climate-resilient economic growth strategies to drive inclusive, cross-sectoral solutions in over 50 countries across fragile, post-conflict, and emerging economies.
Dr. Michael Shank is an advisor to local governments leading on sustainability and climate action, advising the Urban Sustainability Directors Network, Southeast Sustainability Directors Network, Colorado Communities for Climate Action and includes leading policy and/or press shops at Beyond Plastics, Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Climate Nexus, U.S. Congress, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Institute for Economics and Peace, Biodiversity Northwest, Puget Soundkeeper Alliance.
Max Gruenig is a climate and energy economist with expertise and experience in the US and Europe and one of the co-founders of POCACITO. He also works with the climate policy think tank E3G and Georgetown University in Washington D.C.
Our Partners
Center for Environmental Initiatives Ecoaction is a civil society organization that unites efforts of experts and activists in a joint struggle to protect the environment. We advocate for energy efficiency, renewable energy, countering climate change, clean air for all and sustainable development of transport and agriculture in Ukraine.