Most people remember the big moments in their lives, such as weddings, graduations, or promotions. For Carolyn Pistone, President and Managing Director of Clear Blue Commercial, Inc., one of those moments came shrouded in fog. Sitting on the 47th floor of a high-rise in San Francisco, she watched as a massive oil tanker struck the Bay Bridge on a misty morning. The ship spilled tens of thousands of gallons of oil into the water. What startled her most, though, wasn't the spill. It was that business carried on as usual.
"All the other ships just kept going," she recalls. "If I spilled oil at my front door, I'd stop everything and clean it up. But there isn't really a mechanism in business to pause and fix harm. That day, I realized how deeply we put commerce above people and the planet. And I decided: not on my watch."
