Thepandemic has shown usthatCOVID-19, climate change and economics are not separate issues but interrelated,andwhytheirimpactsinflict the most damageon smallbusinesses and vulnerable communities.Join ASBC to discuss how systems thinking can be an essential tool for business leaders and policymakers worldwide to analyze the intersection betweenthese issues.
Developing Sustainable, Systems-based Business Strategy for the Post Covid19 World?
The American Sustainable Business Council is excited to host a webinar on “Developing sustainable, systems based business strategy for the post Covid19 world?†featuring Dr Sally Uren OBE; Chief Executive, Forum for the Future on July 16th at 1PM ET.
COVID-19 has shaken the start of the new decade, yet is likely only the first in a series of shocks that could take us by surprise in the coming years. What might those other shocks/openings be? And can we be better prepared moving forward? Join Sally Uren, CEO of international sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future to hear their analysis of the dynamic areas we are seeing shaping the coming decade, and to explore points for preparation and intervention as the world rebuilds after COVID-19.
This webinar is relevant for anyone interested in using the potential of applied futures for sustainability planning, particularly for sustainability professionals or those with a focus on innovation and/or strategy. It is not industry-specific. Attendees can benefit from Forum’s futures and system change expertise to help navigate the rapidly changing context and to plan for a post-COVID-19 world.
Forum for the Future is a leading international sustainability non-profit. For over 24 years Forum for the Future has been working in partnership with business, governments and civil society to accelerate the shift toward a sustainable future.
Climate change, poverty, malnutrition, civil unrest: the world today is facing complex challenges because our fundamental systems are no longer fit for purpose.
Forum for the Future specializes in addressing critical global challenges by catalyzing change in key systems, from food to apparel, energy to shipping. They do this by convening transformational collaborations to drive change, by partnering with organizations to help them lead by example, and by building a global community of pioneers and change makers.
NEXT Economy LIVE: Saru Jayaraman (One Fair Wage) in conversation with Jeffrey Hollender
Saru Jayaraman (One Fair Wage) and Jeffrey Hollender (ASBC) invite you to join SVC’s NEXT Economy LIVE for a conversation on High Road Kitchens and how the impact community can support the service sector and help reimagine the industry post-pandemic.
Saru Jayaraman is an academic at UC Berkeley and President of One Fair Wage, a national service workers’ association. She was named one of CNN’s “Top 10 Visionary Womenâ€, a White House Champion of Change, a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award winner, and the San Francisco Chronicle ‘Visionary of the Year’. Saru authored Behind the Kitchen Door (Cornell University Press), and Forked: A New Standard for American Dining (Oxford University Press), and has appeared on MSNBC, HBO, PBS, CBS, CNN, and at the Golden Globes.
Jeffrey Hollender is co-founder and former CEO of Seventh Generation, the founder of Sustain Natural and is an Adjunct Professor of sustainability and social entrepreneurship at the Stern Business School, New York University.
Hollender is also a strategic advisor and former Board Chair of Greenpeace US; and currently CEO, co-founder and Board Chair of the American Sustainable Business Council, a coalition of business leaders committed to progressive public policy.
In partnership with JumpScale and Opportunity Collaboration.
Visionary Leadership in Corporate Sustainability
Join Tim Greiner, Managing Director of Pure Strategies and ASBC CEO Jeffrey Hollender as they explore what it takes to be a corporate leader in sustainability.
What they will cover:
- How to find your corporate vision of a more sustainable future
- What keeps that vision alive, including how to manage competing business pressures and stay the course in sustainability
- How policy engagement fits, including the latest from ASBC’s work to bring sustainability into national policy
- Plus, answering questions from attendees
Companies for Zero Waste Summit 2020
Companies for Zero Waste hosts the premier forum for sustainability leaders and practitioners — from the business world, government agencies, NGOs and investors to connect and explore emerging trends to move towards zero waste goals, pressing challenges and promising opportunities shaping business amid a world of climate change, resource constraints and unprecedented stakeholder pressures.
ASBC President David Levine and ASBC Executive VP Thomas Oppel are keynote speakers.
Sustainability in Packaging Conference
Sustainability in Packaging US 2020: Making Sustainable Packaging A Commercial Realitywill provide expert content and key insights from some of the top brand owners, CPG’s, retailers, packaging manufacturers, government regulators, and NGO’s who are making moves in the sustainable packaging space. Join ASBC staff and members!
Kicking off the conference, attendees will have the opportunity to attend 3 pre-conference workshops:
- The Future of Plastics
- Compostable and Recyclable: Breaking Down the Challenges
- Fireside Chat: Live Consumer Panel Workshop.
This 3-day program will feature presentations on:
- Brunching with Brands: How will [sustainable] packaging change over the next 5-10 years? featuring panelists from Hasbro, TemperPack, Wayfair, and Whirlpool
- Tough conversations and insights in the Packaging Ecommerce World by Coty Inc.
- How digital packaging reduces environmental impact by HP Inc.
- Designing Sustainability into the Production Process to Accelerate a Circular Economy by DS Smith
- Don’t Get Blind-Sided By The Next “Straw†Ban: How To Better Monitor Sustainability by Industry Intelligence and much more!
SOAR International Women’s Day Breakfast
ASBC and its strategic partner, the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY), invite you to celebrate the accomplishments of women and minority owned firms in the waste industry in conjunction with International Women’s Day by registering here.
Opening Keynote: Kathleen Draper, Chairman of the Board, International Biochar Initiative
Panel: Circular Economy Opportunities for Diverse Firms in Waste
The circular economy, the recovery of materials and energy from used products, is becoming a broader practice. This concept is seen as a solution to tackle the current and global environmental, social and economic challenges. It can also create new contract opportunities for women/ minority-owned firms and jobs for individuals in urban communities. Learn from these panel experts and explore partnerships as they share their knowledge and experience to potentially expand your business model and play an integral role in joining the circular economy.
- Sydney Mainster serves as the Vice President of Sustainability for The Durst Organization – a 100-year-old family-run Real Estate company based in New York City. She brings over 13 years of professional and academic Architecture, Design and Construction experience to her role. Her current passion is defining strategies to transform the building product industry and resultant material waste streams. Prior to joining the Durst Organization in early 2014, she served as Adjunct Faculty and Director of the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture Materials Resource Center. She moved to Austin, TX after earning a Master of Architecture degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2010, and after spending the summer teaching design as an Architecture Studio Instructor for the GSD’s Career Discovery program. She worked at a variety of construction industry-related jobs in Los Angeles, Berkeley, Boston, New York City, London, and Austin.
- Kate Daly is Executive Director of the Center for the Circular Economy at Closed Loop Partners. The Center is a hub for business acceleration, investment, and research in packaging, food, the built environment, electronics and apparel & textiles. Kate previously served as Senior Vice President at the NYC Economic Development Corporation, where she oversaw business development programs in sectors including advanced manufacturing, smart cities, cleantech, fashion, tech, and media.
- Amber Lasciak, Founder of REDU. Amber grew up off-the-grid and one of the only African American kids in the county, on 60 acres in Northern California. It is there that she learned to respect the environment. She founded REDU as a salve to this problem. REDU is a design-build company that creates furniture and commercial interiors from 99% re-use materials. REDU is a sustainable design company located in Brooklyn that creates commercial interiors and furniture solely from re-use materials. Its mission is to help keep perfectly usable material out of landfill and incorporate them into innovative functional design. REDU has transformed several commercial interiors throughout the tri-state area with 99% re-use materials.
- Meredith Danberg-Ficarelli, Director, Common Ground Compost. Meredith is a green business entrepreneur. In 2012 she concepted, co-founded, and managed FERN [Food Establishments Recycling Nutrients], a sustainable waste management organization in Beirut, Lebanon which presented a model for green job creation in the Middle East drawing attention from the United Nations and international aid organizations. Meredith was lucky enough to audit the 2015 Master Composter class during that time, deepening her knowledge of compost science. Meredith joined Common Ground Compost in October 2015. Meredith volunteers and works with organizations across the Northeast, including CitySoil in Boston and Talk Trash City in New York City.
The Responsible Business Summit West 2019
We’re in the midst of transformation. The fourth industrial revolution coupled with the necessity to reduce global warming to 1.5C requires all stakeholders pulling in one direction, with grave consequences for failure.
This also presents anopportunityfor business to innovate, invest and collaborate. The opportunity to deliver technologies and circular strategies which accelerate the move to a sustainable economy, conserve the natural environment and deliver business success.
This is whyThe Responsible Business Summit Westis the only place bringing together 250+ CEOs sustainability leaders, Investors, Government representatives and NGOs to provide the blueprint for innovations and understand what technology will drive the change that sustainability will shape.
Zero Waste Energy Summit
Designed For: CEOs, Federal & State Policymakers, Mayors, Municipalities, Heads of Corporate Sustainability, Heads of Corporate Energy, Academia, Impact & ESG Investors.
This meeting will accelerate public-private partnerships by bridging the gap between policymakers, corporations and municipalities.
How Business Practice Can Undermine Democracy: Business and Policy Implications
How and why do well-meaning, responsible, sustainable businesses unintentionally undermine Democracy? Why, just as so many businesses do ecologically, we also can easily externalize their responsibilities toward public policy. How do we understand our complicity in the challenges that face our society and the environment? Businesses need to work on this as much as they need to work on sustainability or we can’t get people to engage in systemically based, structural change. Businesses have to build the capacity to care and govern and understand the imperative for this work. Find out what your business can do for Democracy and improve your business at the same time.
“The work that Carol Sanford offers profoundly changed my life and I’m confident it will change yours too. Carol uniquely understands how to cultivate human potentialby developing more conscious, creative, innovative, and intentional human beings. You will drive extraordinary results. You will find that you have the ability to develop capabilities that you never dreamed of. And perhaps most important of all, you will discover that your work can be fulfilling in numerous ways that deeply feed your soul.â€
Jeffrey Hollender, Founder & CEO Seventh Generation,[] SustainNatural.com
