Christiana Wyly is an environmental advocate and operating partner at Satori Capital, an investment firm focused on sustainable investing, providing conscious capital and helping to grow the market for products and firms dedicated to a sustainable future. Christiana’s unique perspective as a twenty-something businesswoman has landed her on the cover of Kiplinger's and inside The New York Times, WIE Magazine, the Dallas Morning News, The Herald Tribune and Treehugger.com, among others. In addition to contributing regularly to the HuffingtonPost.com’s “Green” column, Christiana is a frequent lecturer. Her recent speaking engagements include the Green Inaugural Ball in Washington, D.C., the Aspen Ideas Festival, the Conscious Capitalism Conference in Austin, Texas, Hollywood Goes Green in Los Angeles, and the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali.
She is a founding partner of Zaadz.com- an online network for people who want to change the world, which was sold to Gaiam, inc. in 2007. Her passion for social technology, global change and empowering young entrepreneurs globally keeps her on the cutting edge of new media and emerging ideas.
Christiana is also active with a variety of non-profits. She holds a Founders Circle position at FLOW, the organization co-founded by Whole Foods CEO John Mackey that promotes entrepreneurial initiatives focused on creating sustainable prosperity. She also serves on the L.A. Committee for Global Green USA.

As a young girl, Christiana inspired her father, Sam Wyly's, environmental education, which ultimately led him to found one of the largest clean-energy companies in the country, Green Mountain Energy. It was this experience that showed her how business can be a powerful force for change. Christiana remains actively involved in the company, and she and her father are in the process of coauthoring a book about its creation and its ongoing mission and success.

Blog Entries by Christiana Wyly

Waxman-Markey Property Rights to the Sky ? Part 3 Interview with Economist James Quilligan

7 Comments | Posted July 7, 2009 | 05:19 PM (EST)


This is the final interview in a 3 part series with Economist James Quilligan.


Christiana Wyly: Considering your positioning as a global economist working on both environmentally and economically sustainable policy solutions, what do you think of the new Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill?


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The Juggling Contest -- Balancing the Global Economy: An interview with Economist James Quilligan

55 Comments | Posted July 3, 2009 | 02:45 PM (EST)


This interview is a follow-up to Guest Blogger James Quilligan's blog which appears in my previous post "Stimulate This!"
In the previous post Mr.Quilligan shares with us what is emerging out of the UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development, along...

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Stimulate This!

5 Comments | Posted June 29, 2009 | 12:28 PM (EST)


Rich Nations Boycott UN Economic Summit
G20 Leaders to Global South: "Stimulate This!"

This blog is written by my colleague economic development policy advisor James B. Quilligan. who has just emerged from the UN Economic Summit, and feels like the core messages vital to global economic transition are not...

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Is Whole Foods Market Just Another Evil Corporation?

42 Comments | Posted May 28, 2009 | 10:23 PM (EST)


I just finished reading Sharon Smith's article by the same name online at AlterNet.com. I am writing this blog in direct response to the question she posed in the title of her article.

Whole Foods Market is, like any human endeavor, hardly perfect. In my mind, however,...

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New York's Green Business Competition

2 Comments | Posted May 23, 2009 | 04:40 PM (EST)


Last week I found myself in Brooklyn's Borough Hall sitting behind the courtroom podium, watching passionate young entrepreneurs present their world-changing ideas in competition for first place and grand prize in New York's Green Business Competition.

Hosted and organized by Green Spaces, sponsored by Con Edison, GBC was established to...

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The TED Conference: Day One: Highlights

Posted February 6, 2009 | 12:14 PM (EST)


I'm wrapping up day one at the TED conference. This is the 25th anniversary of an annual event bringing together the greatest minds in the fields of Technology, Entertainment, and Design. The stage is graced by those who are considered the greatest global innovators, here to share with the world...

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Selling Hope Instead of Fear: 
Redefining Activism

Posted January 21, 2009 | 05:41 PM (EST)


On January 17th, I found myself on the stage at the Green Inaugural Ball in Washington D.C. presenting a short talk I titled: Selling Hope instead of Fear: 
Redefining Activism.

I believe that the environmental advocacy community can learn much from Obama's example of achieving the impossible, held afloat by...

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Sweet Surprise

Posted November 25, 2008 | 02:16 PM (EST)


The commercial informs me that I am in for a sweet surprise. A sweet surprise?? Oh yes, I am surprised. Shocked might be a better word. Or perhaps appalled. The other day while traveling I found myself flipping channels on a hotel gym TV. Then this commercial came on:

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Picky About the Pickens Plan

Posted September 23, 2008 | 02:21 AM (EST)


I went to hear T. Boone Pickens speak at the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles. Ain't T. Boone a good ole' southern name? (I'm allowed to talk like that cuz I'm part Texan) 

One thing I surely respect about T. Boone is that he aint sittin' around at the...

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