Sep 22, 2016 – Kara Hurst welcomes Al Gore to Amazon – Press Release on Amazon’s website.
On the heels of our recent Texas Wind Farm announcement (our largest renewable energy project to date) we were honored to welcome Al Gore to Amazon last Friday. Al Gore is former Vice President of the United States and current Chairman of Generation Investment Management.
I had the privilege of hosting Mr. Gore in conversation with more than 1,600 Amazonians who came to hear him speak about the environment, including climate change, demographic changes and the role we can play.
August 15, 2014 in an article in GreenBiz by Joel Makower reports Kara Hurst named Amazon’s first sustainability executive.
Retailing giant Amazon has hired Kara Hartnett Hurst, CEO of The Sustainability Consortium, to be its first sustainability executive. The company, in typical closed-mouth fashion, has not announced Hurst’s hiring and declined to comment on it. Hurst, too, was mum, even declining to reveal her title, where she’ll be reporting, or what her mandate will be at the retailer.
A recent memo sent to members of The Sustainability Consortium — a research group whose members include businesses with combined revenues exceeding $2.4 trillion — said only that she’d “accepted an executive position at Amazon to head up sustainability for the company,” stepping out of her role at TSC at the end of August