Patrick Pfeiffer serves as one of CantorCO2e’s top environmental brokers. He is very much imbedded in an array of environmental markets including the national and regional carbon, renewable energy, and California emission markets. His work involves the financial structuring of environmental transactions between Fortune 500 companies, hedge funds, and an array of ‘green’ project developers. Through this role, Patrick has recently brokered two of the first California carbon transactions under (AB-32).

Prior to his role within Cantor, Patrick served as one of Genentech’s sustainability advisors. Here he most notably spearheaded a million dollar multi-department “zero-waste” project, transforming waste streams into profit streams while greening facility infrastructure.

Patrick graduated from Dartmouth College with degrees in Environmental Studies and Public Policy. He also has published work on alternative energy through the Rockefeller Policy Center and the Vermont Legislature. Patrick currently resides in San Francisco.

Blog Entries by Patrick Pfeiffer

Greening Bonnaroo: The Rule Not the Exception

1 Comments | Posted June 16, 2009 | 05:41 PM (EST)


My pedometer clocked in at 51,323 steps (~29 miles) traveled by foot at the end of Sunday night's closing Phish Set; a part of this years Bonnarro Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, TN. Extrapolating this across the massive 70,000 concert-goers gives us a cumulative 2,000,000 (plus) miles walked,...

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Greening 150,000 Roadies, is it possible?: Outside Lands Festival, San Francisco

Posted August 26, 2008 | 12:02 PM (EST)


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Photo Courtesy Alex Smith of Treehugger.com
Touring bands such as Widespread Panic, Radiohead, Tom Petty, Ben Harper, and Jack Johnson drew a crowd of 150,000 over the course of last weekend in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park for the Outside Lands Music...

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The Big Green Bus: Ex-Diesel Goes Veggie

Posted July 27, 2008 | 06:37 PM (EST)


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"Either you're on the bus or you're off the bus," was the hackneyed statement proposed to me by three members of Dartmouth College's Big Green Bus; an ex-diesel goes veggie 37' foot school bus. My hometown San Francisco weekend was just beginning...

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