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12October 2022

ASBN Live Expediting Inclusive Resilience and Positive Impact Through Climate-Friendly, Community-Centric Adaptive Redevelopment

In this webinar, we will discuss the importance of business leadership and investments in community-based partnerships to expedite meaningful and transformative innovation, local capacity building, scalable solutions and holistic resilience and sustainability in the age of climate crisis.

Featuring 2 Innovative Models Driven By Fair and Equitable Commercial, Industrial and Residential Adaptive Redevelopment:

1. Hugo Neu Kearny Point Innovative Flood Risk Assessment & Water Resilience Study: Findings, Recommendations and Transferability for Climate-Impacted Urbanized Coastal Communities (Wendy K. Neu&Dominique Lueckenhoff, Hugo Neu)
2. Vancouver Heritage Commission First Nations Full Housing Retention Model for Social Housing That Supports People, Community, and Planetary Wellbeing (Alex Lau, Golden Properties Ltd &Mark Shieh, Tomo Spaces)

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Archived, Circular Economy, Clean Water, Climate Action

21September 2022

Member Event Circular Economy

The Circular Economy Working Group brings together a wide variety of key stakeholders as ASBC works to tackle the waste crisis, especially plastic waste, in the United States. Environmentally-focused organizations and business leaders from across the nation collaborate to help guide our Packaging Waste Reduction campaign, with a focus on both federal and state level policies.

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Circular Economy, Climate Action

19September 2022

Partner Event Climate Disclosure & Net-Zero Ambition

Green Project and Unqork are delighted to host a candid conversation on how financial institutions and enterprises can build comprehensive, efficient, and compliant sustainability disclosure and change management practices. Attendees will listen to a panel from KPMG, leading financial service firms, and other corporate climate leaders on effective portfolio engagement, financed emissions measurement, and audit readiness.
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Following the panel discussion, there will be an open happy hour.

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Circular Economy, Climate Action, Impact Investing

16September 2022

Town Hall The Real Bottom Line: Meeting Our Fundamental Needs While Bringing about Personal and Organizational Transformation

In this ASBN Livable Planet Working Group Town Hall, we intend to go beyond talking about â€œpurposeâ€ in business and explore how we can meet our fundamental needs on a personal and organizational level. With some new perspectives, it’s surprisingly easy to meet our fundamental needs and transform ourselves and our business. At the same time, we can improve performance and increase well-being and fulfillment, while saving money, reducing our consumption addiction (â€œaffluenzaâ€) and contributing to a livable planet.

Come join us for this positive, inspiring and interactive exploration of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and take it to the next level with the breakthrough work of Alternative Nobel Prize-winning Fundamental Needs of Dr. Manfred Max-Neef, which has been used widely by companies like Interface.

We’ll then explore the power of our connection with nature as a fundamental need, IKEA’s efforts and some inside perspectives from Amalgamated Bank on how they’re meeting fundamental needs. We’ll conclude with the opportunity to share our own experiences in meeting fundamental needs from this new perspective. Let’s re-imagine, re-think and co-create together.

Presenters:

â€“ Jenise Bermudez, First VP of Commercial Banking at Amalgamated Bank, Denver, Colorado
â€“ Susan Eirich, Ph.D., Founder and Executive Director, Earthfire Institute Wildlife Sanctuary and Retreat Center, western flank of Grand Teton Mountains
â€“ Terry Gips, CEO of Sustainability Associates and President of the Alliance for Sustainability, St. Louis Park, MN
â€“ Steve Weinberg, Sustainability Leader, Americas, IKEA Supply Chain Operations, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

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Circular Economy

31August 2022

ASBN Live Reimagining Recycling: How Tech Innovation is Increasing Landfill Diversion and Driving Circularity

Technology is playing a key role in supporting the advancement of recycling in North America and beyond. AI-powered computer vision systems are creating a more holistic view of where material is moving, and most importantly, what’s in it. AI and better data capture are helping consumer packaged goods companies, retailers, and manufacturers understand the flow and recovery of their specific containers and packaging; such innovations are reducing contamination and supporting producer initiatives to increase recycling rates, including for problematic materials like film and flexibles, and create new value streams for recyclables. Data collection, measurement, and material characterization for recycling also create a mechanism to support Extended Producer Responsibility schemes and other government initiatives focused on landfill diversion goals and recycled content standards, helping to advance a more circular economy for valuable commodities.

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Speaker

Chris Wirth is vice president of marketing and industry and government relations for AMP Robotics. Wirth brings more than 25 years of business-to-business (B2B) experience at companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies in the technology, sustainability, government, finance, and industrial sectors. Prior to AMP, he held roles in marketing at Flex Ltd (NASDAQ: FLEX) incubating an internal international energy start-up and was vice president of marketing for Spruce Finance (formerly Clean Power Finance), a solar energy financier backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Google Ventures.

Archived, Circular Economy, Impact Investing, Renewable Energy

18May 2022

Partner Event Confluence Philanthropy’s 2nd Annual Belonging Town Hall

About the Belonging Town Hall

The Town Hall supportsBelongingPledgesignatories in deepening their commitments to investing with a racial equity lens. This half-day virtual convening will engage participants through sharing lessons learned and highlighting opportunities for activation.

In response to the racial justice protests of summer 2020, Confluence Philanthropy members and partnering networks joined together to launch theBelongingPledge: a call for racial equity across the investment industry. To-date, over 185 signatories representing $1.88 Trillion in AUM have signed onto the pledge. Over the summer and following months, a wave of corporations and organizations have made statements that promise to advance racial equity through investments and organizational change.

What has changed over the past two years, and what hasn’t? We invite pledge signatories to join us at theBelongingTown Hall to discuss what real progress takes: the policy and organizational changes that are needed, the importance of racial diversity in leadership, and the innovations needed to finance new models and partnerships.

Join Jennifer Gootman, Vice President, Sustainability: Social & Environmental Impact of Williams-Sonoma, Inc, Danielle Jezienicki, Senior Director, Sustainability of Grove Collaborative, and Suzanne Vetillart, CEO of Boma Jewelry, in conversation with Tensie Whelan, Director, NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. These experienced leaders will unpack various approaches to driving circularity, sharing lessons learned on their companies’ journeys to a more sustainable future.

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Circular Economy, Climate Action, Impact Investing

05May 2022

Circular City Week Circularity and the Future of Furniture Design

Join us to discuss holistic and realistic steps and strategies to implement the circular economy, new approaches to regenerative systems, and the challenges and opportunities of retooling a risk-averse manufacturing industry. With a special focus on the challenges of the furniture sector and real-life case studies, we’ll walk you through cradle-to-cradle best practices like life cycle audits, Design for Disassembly, reclaiming technical and biological nutrients and many other techniques.

This virtual workshop will feature thought-and action-leaders in furniture and circularity:Paula Luu, Senior Project Director at the Center for the Circular Economy, Closed Loop Partners;Emily McGarvey, Director of Sustainability, Room & Board; andPhantila Phataraprasit, Co-Founder/CEO, Sabai; and moderated by sustainability designerSarah Templin.

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Archived, Circular Economy

04May 2022

Circular City Week Public Policy & â€˜Circularity’ â€“ Business Can Move the Needle

ASBN, member mebl | Transforming Furniture and the Sustainable Furnishings Council present a three-part Circularity in Furniture webinar series as a part of Circular City Week.

How can companies support and inform critical public policy to advance the transition to a circular economy? Using examples from the furniture and home-cleaning products industries, we’ll explore opportunities for involvement by companies of all sectors, sizes and levels of policy engagement. Join us to learn more about circular economy policy in the US and how businesses can play an essential role in policymaking and advocacy for circularity. With momentum building on key policies â€“ including extended producer responsibility, plastics bans, toxics legislation, and right to repair, along with new federal climate and infrastructure investment â€“ this is an important time for the business sector to lead the change.

Panelists include Gat Caperton, President/CEO of Gat Creek; Jeffrey Hollender, CEO & Co-Founder of ASBN and Co-Founder & former CEO of Seventh Generation; and Stephanie Erwin, Director of Circular Economy Policy, ASBN. Moderated bySusan Inglis, Resident Expert and Educator in Chief at the Sustainable Furnishings Council.

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Archived, Circular Economy, Climate Action, Impact Investing

02May 2022

Circular City Week How Business Leaders Drive Change- Leading the Way on ‘Circularity’ from Within

ASBN, member mebl | Transforming Furniture and the Sustainable Furnishings Council present a three-part Circularity in Furniture webinar series as a part of Circular City Week.

How do business leaders drive change from within toward greater â€˜circularity’ in corporate practices? What strategies do they use to transform their companies along the production- and life-cycles of their products and services â€“ from design, sourcing, manufacturing and sales to use, reuse, recycling, and/or end-of-life?

How do companies make the case for circularity to key internal stakeholders and align the full range of teams â€“ finance, product, sustainability, marketing, operations, etc â€“ to achieve sustainability, waste and business goals? Is it best to â€œgo all inâ€ or â€œtake baby stepsâ€? We’ll explore change from within using examples from the furniture and consumer products industries to illustrate strategies applicable across many sectors.

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Archived, Circular Economy, Climate Action, Impact Investing

02April 2022

Partner Event mebl

ReDesign Week 2002

EQUITY CAN’T BE AN ADD-ON| A CONVERSATION ABOUT DESIGN, WASTE AND RACIAL JUSTICE

April 5, 12:00 â€“ 1:00pm ET

Where do design, waste and racial justice converge? Americans dump 12 million tons of furniture and furnishings waste into landfills each year, alongside 500 million tons of construction and demolition debris. At the same time, people of color are more likely to live near waste facilities and toxic manufacturing plants, in substandard housing, and in areas most vulnerable to climate disasters.

Join Jennifer Graham, Equity Council and VP of Action of theIIDA NY, and Jacqueline Patterson, Founder and Executive Director ofthe Chisholm Legacy Project, in an exploration of equity, change, racial justice and designing for a just and sustainable future.

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COOL FURNITURE, HAPPIER PLANET, SMART BUSINESS| INTRODUCING A NEW GENERATION OF’CIRCULAR’ NYC FURNITURE BUSINESSES

April 6, 12:00 â€“ 1:00pm ET

Join the leadersof young NYC-based companies that are reinventing the very definition of what it means to be in the furniture business. Alongside great design, this new generation of furniture-makers prioritizereduced waste, healthier materials, ease-of-repair, transportability, affordability, long product life and other key sustainability practices. They make comfortable, fun furniture that reduces your â€˜carbon footprint’ and doesn’t break the bank.

Phantila Phataraprasit ofSabai,Conor Coghlan ofHoek Homeand Ilyse Kaplan ofFeatherexplore principles ofthe circular economy deeply embedded in each of their companies’DNA, values and business model.

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ALTERNATIVES TO THE CURB| HOW REAL NEW YORKERS REDECORATE AND KEEP FURNITURE OUT OF LANDFILLS

April 7, 5:00 â€“ 6:00pm ET

The curb is where furniture too often goes to die, but it doesn’t have to! Meet 8 fun, creative New Yorkers who have turned to re-furbishing, re-designing, re-selling and re-using when redecorating their living and work spaces. These individuals, small business owners and community organization leaders have found great refurnishing alternatives that meet their needs for style, affordability, convenience and concern for the environment.

Join us for real-life stories with your fellow New Yorkers â€“ connecting with great furniture, each other and the circular economy! Meet the faces behindBuy Nothing â€“ Upper East Side group,Double R Design,AMANO Brooklyn,ReMix Market, andREDU.

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Archived, Circular Economy, Climate Action, Social Justice

ASBN Live Expediting Inclusive Resilience and Positive Impact Through Climate-Friendly, Community-Centric Adaptive Redevelopment

Member Event Circular Economy

Partner Event Climate Disclosure & Net-Zero Ambition

Town Hall The Real Bottom Line: Meeting Our Fundamental Needs While Bringing about Personal and Organizational Transformation

ASBN Live Reimagining Recycling: How Tech Innovation is Increasing Landfill Diversion and Driving Circularity

Partner Event Confluence Philanthropy’s 2nd Annual Belonging Town Hall

Circular City Week Circularity and the Future of Furniture Design

Circular City Week Public Policy & â€˜Circularity’ â€“ Business Can Move the Needle

Circular City Week How Business Leaders Drive Change- Leading the Way on ‘Circularity’ from Within

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