ASBN invites you to join us Wednesday, January 12 at 3pm ET for Revolutionizing ESG from the Board Down, a conversation between Michael O’Leary (Managing Director, Engine No.1) and Jeffrey Hollender (CEO, ASBN).
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Business and Childhood Cancer Prevention: September 23rd @ 2PM ET
On the anniversary of last year’s release of the Childhood Cancer Prevention report, ASBC-SVC is pleased to invite you to a webinar on Business and Childhood Cancer Prevention on September 23rd at 2PM ET.
Last year, The Childhood Cancer Prevention Initiative released its report on environmental contributions to the dramatic increase in childhood cancers, and opportunities for prevention, in late September. [] Join us to hear from business leaders on the role business must take to prevent childhood cancer.
Presenters include:
- Kelly Vlahakis-Hanks, ECOS
- Kari Warberg Block, Earth Kind
- Martin Wolf, Seventh Generation
- Barry Cik, Naturepedic
- David Levine, American Sustainable Business Council
The report looks at trends in childhood cancers and recommends prevention strategies that resonate with each of our CFE working groups. Join us to hear from business leaders, ask questions, and talk about ways to incorporate messaging and action on environmental contributors to childhood cancers into your work.
JOIN BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AND ASBC FOR PAID LEAVE / RECONCILIATION WEBINAR
As part of the American Sustainable Business Council’s advocacy for the reconciliation bill as a necessary companion to the BIF, we are hosting a webinar on Thursday at 3p ET focused on the national paid family and medical leave provisions including in the reconciliation package. The webinar will feature a senior Biden Administration official and ASBC members on a panel discussing the need and potential impact of a paid leave program on the business community.
The webinar, featuring Zach Butterworth, private sector lead for the White House Office of Public Engagement, will focus on the national paid family and medical leave provisions in the reconciliation package.The webinar will also include ASBC members, including Dan Wolf, CEO of Cape Air, and Rebecca Hamilton, co-CEO of W.S. Badger, discussing the need and potential impact of a paid leave program on the business community.
Radical Inclusion in Your Workplace!
You are a champion of diversity and inclusion and yet you know there is more to be done. If you are looking to find new sources for good talent while creating a more resilient workforce and community, you won’t want to miss this free webinar. Hear firsthand from leaders who are putting thousands of post-incarcerated, homeless and housing insecure individuals to work. Come for inspiration and leave with strategies you can replicate in your own organization.
Our moderator for this event will be Alina Sanchez, the founder of Accelerating Purpose.
She will be joined by a panel of industry experts with firsthand experiences pushing the boundaries of inclusive hiring practices including: Joe Kenner (President and CEO of Greyston Bakery), Yana Simone Grammer(Founder of New Earth), Gregg Keesling (President of RecycleForce), Mark Loranger (CEO of Chrysalis), and Celia Ouellette (founder and CEO of the Responsible Business Initiative for Justice).
NEXT Economy LIVE: Pet Industry Sustainability
ASBC-SVC invite you to join us May 12 at 1 PM ET to hear from the ASBC-SVC pet community (PSC) business leaders on how to drive impactful change within a $100 billion industry that affects the lives of our pets and our natural environment.
From food to litter to waste, the pet industry can have a significant impact. On this special webinar, join us to hear the ways these PSC brands have implemented regenerative and responsible business practices. Additionally, how can the pet industry as a whole work together to drive lasting change in an industry critical to pet parents and our environment?
Hear the lessons, relevant to all, that leading sustainable businesses in the pet industry have learned from teaming up and enacting initiatives in their workplaces and supply chains that better your pets, pet parents, and our ecosystems.
Pesticides, Cancer Prevention & Business Solutions
In recognition of National Cancer Prevention Month, join ASBC and the Childhood Cancer Prevention Initiative for a special webinar on the importance of protecting our environment and communities from toxic pesticides and lifting up the solutions already within our reach.
Toxic chemicals in the environment and the places where children live, learn and play are also important risk factors for cancer. Toxic pesticides have a significant impact and have been clearly linked as a carcinogen. Communities of color and low-income communities are at high risk of being exposed to toxic chemicals. Moving away from toxic substances toward safer chemicals and products will drive innovation and job creation while also making workplaces and communities safer.
It is time to take action to protect our vulnerable communities from exposure to toxic chemicals and pesticides and move forward with solutions from regenerative agriculture to utilization of non-toxic plant-based products.
Join a distinguished panel for this important conversation, Wednesday, February 24 at 3 PM ET, on how business and policymakers can take action on shifting towards safer chemicals and reducing exposure to toxic chemicals.
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The Intersection of Home, Health, & Wealth
Social Venture Circle and the American Sustainable Business Council host this interactive webinar with Joshua Pollard (President & CEO, Omicelo) on the intersection of home, health, and wealth.
Following the hour-long webinar, we will hold a 30-minute informal dialogue with Joshua Pollard. A second link will be sent shortly before the event.
In partnership with JumpScale, The Accountkeepers, Bromberger Law, SustainVC, GoodCarts, Trillium Asset Management, Perlman & Perlman, Barclays, Junxion, and Hanson Bridgett.
The Art of Activating Money For Good
Chances are, you spend a lot of time thinking about money: how to move it, how to grow it, and how to activate more of it to have the greatest possible impact. What are the big questions you’re sitting with? What’s holding you back?
Join Amy Hartzler (Do Good Better), Deb Nelson (RSF Social Finance) and Kristin Hull (Nia Impact Capital) on January 21 at 1pm ET to hear about the big money myths, the power of storytelling, and ways capital can create a more sustainable and just world.
For a preview of a part of their webinar, check out this short video and website, Transform Your Money (moneytransforms.com)
In partnership with JumpScale, The Accountkeepers, Bromberger Law, SustainVC, GoodCarts, Trillium Asset Management, Perlman & Perlman, Barclays, Junxion, and Hanson Bridgett.
Deep Dive: Green Infrastructure
Green infrastructure is an interconnected network of natural areas and other open spaces that conserve natural ecosystem values and functions, sustain clean air and water and provide a wide array of benefits to people and wildlife. It is the ecological framework for environmental, social, and economic health – in short, our natural life-support system (Benedict and McMahon 2006). In this webinar we will explore the benefits, scalability, implementation, politics, and potential funding of green infrastructure projects. We will dive deep into green infrastructure as another equitable and effective tool to address the climatecrisis.
This Deep Dive webinar discussion will be led by three experts who are nationally-known for their advocacy and successful implementation of green infrastructure projects.Christine Connis the Landscape Conservation Planner for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. She is especially recognized for successfully engaging diverse stakeholders in innovative green infrastructure projects in theChesapeake Bay watershed.Sacoby Wilsondirects theCommunity Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health Laboratory. His views on exposure science, environmental justice and environmental health disparities — based on crowd science and community-based participatory research — are especially pertinent to successful green infrastructure projects in frontline communities. Finally,Will Allen, who oversees theConservation Leadership Network, is an expert on green infrastructure and conservation GIS.
This conversation will be moderated byJane Fountain, Professor at the UMassSchool of Public Policy, which is sponsoring this webinar.The program is part of a series of forums on national climate policy co-hosted by Climate XChange and the Pricing Carbon Initiative
Speakers:
- Jane Fountain, Professor at the UMassSchool of Public Policy
- Christine Conn, Landscape Conservation Planner for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources
- Sacoby Wilson, Director of theCommunity Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health Laborator
- Will Allen, Senior Vice President of the Conservation Fund of theConservation Leadership Network
Business Case for H2O Infrastructure Webinar w/special guest Senator Reed (D- RI)
What’s the business case for investing in our deteriorated water infrastructure now? Past generations’ investment in U.S. municipal water systems have given us reliable, plentiful clean drinking water and sanitary waste disposal. But across the country, much of our infrastructure for managing wastewater and providing drinking water is inadequate, obsolete or seriously deteriorated. Despite our growing need, federal per capita spending on water infrastructure has dropped from $76 per person in 1977 to just $11 per person in 2014! Continued failure to address this major, essential infrastructure problem is increasingly detrimental to our economy and businesses nationwide.
The US is currently projected to lose $732 billion in business sales by 2029 and over $4.5 trillion by 2039; with 636,000 jobs lost each year by 2039, just from service disruptions and increasing services rates! These losses don’t even include the damage failing water infrastructure poses to the US economy through hazardous pollution and destructive flooding.
The business case for investing in our water infrastructure now – not someday – is clear. The return will be significant job creation, a better competitive position for U.S. businesses, and resilient economic growth.
Learn more: Join ASBC, Environment America, Susan Harris of Cerulean, LLC and Senator Jack Reed (D – Rhode Island) on November 19 for a special webinar on how failing water infrastructure endangers our businesses and the economy and how we can fix this problem before the cost is insurmountable. Government listens to business, so learn the facts!
