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20November 2020

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 â€“ 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 â€” based on crowd science and community-based participatory research â€” 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

Archived, Clean Water, Climate Action, Social Justice

19November 2020

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 â€“ not someday â€“ 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 â€“ 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!

Archived, Clean Water, Climate Action, Impact Investing

21September 2020

The Responsible Business Summit New York 2020

We’ve been taking from the environmental future for the economic present and we’re now on the cusp of a decade of consequences. A climate emergency, global social inequalities, biodiversity loss and increased investor and consumer pressure for business to act. Business needs to step up ambitions to tackle and adapt to the changing climate.

We need action. New ways of collaborating. New business models. New forms of investments.

But just how do you go about designing for this level of ambitious change? At The Responsible Business Summit New York 2020 we will convene 750+ leaders from across the globe to share their latest strategies, and more importantly, tangible insights into how they are helping deliver the required transformation of business. How they’re delivering a sustainable economy.

Will this be the terrible 20s or the transformative 20s? That’s up to you. Lead the decade of action, starting at the Responsible Business Summit New York 2020.

ASBC CEO Jeffrey Hollender will moderate the session: Case study: Restoration of the Natural Capital. The loss of biodiversity, deforestation and access to clean water are critical issues for the world. Businesses are now realizing they must transform and collaborate to deliver restorative growth strategies.

Clean Water, Climate Action, Impact Investing

21January 2020

Making the Business Case on Clean Water Issues to the Media

January 21, 1 â€“ 2 PM ET: Making the Business Case on Clean Water Issues to the Media: If the new political reality has you itching to speak out in the media, this session is for you. Learn best practices from the front lines. Here’s what you will learn:

How to find and approach journalists interested in what you have to say
How to make the strongest arguments for your policy agenda
How to use your company as proof for how policies affect business
Tips to enhance your credibility and confidence

Speakers:

Bob Keener â€“ Deputy Director of Public Relations at American Sustainable Business Council
Dana Patterson â€“ Communications Strategist at Princeton Hydro, LLC
Rita Yelda â€“ Outreach & Communications Manager at Coalition for the Delaware River Watershed
Colton Fagundes â€“ Policy Associate at American Sustainable Business Council

Clean Water

14January 2020

Effective Advocating & Lobbying Your Elected Officials on Clean Water and other issues

In this training, we will educate and prepare business leaders to be effective advocates for your issues. Here’s what you will learn:

Plan an in-person meeting with policy makers
How to prepare and research for in-person meetings
Execute a successful meeting with policy makers
Post-meeting outreach
Get your message to policy makers when you can’t meet in person (outside-in approach)
An overview of water policy where business advocacy can be effective

Speakers:

Melanie Smith â€“ Executive Director of the Delaware Sustainable Business Council, CEO of Sustainable World Strategies, former member of the Delaware House of Representatives
Frank Knapp â€“ CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Owner of the Knapp Agency
Colton Fagundes â€“ Policy Associate at American Sustainable Business Council

Clean Water

29October 2019

Regenerative Earth Summit

Join At The Epicenter for the third annual Regenerative Earth Summit (RES19) â€“ a unique convening of global leaders from business, agriculture, academia and civic sectors, who recognize WE have the capacity to influence and accelerate systemic change in land to market systems to benefit people and planet. Recognizing earth as the source, not a resource, it is crucial that businesses become stakeholders in climate action through their purchasing power and supply source decisions. We convene RES19 to support leaders from the food, fashion and beauty industries to collaborate across sectors in developing implementable strategies within their supply web communities that empower the building and maintenance of healthy soils that enhance carbon sequestration and protect and conserve precious water resources.

Clean Water, Climate Action, Sustainable Food

01October 2019

A History of Capitalism: The Role of Business in Shaping the American Economy

A Timely Discussion with Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse,
American History Professor at the University of North Carolina
October 17th, 1:00pm ET

Today’s debates about the extent of government involvement in the economy are peculiar to our modern culture of capitalism. Throughout American history, from the mercantile and agricultural economy of our nation’s founding through the rise of mass industrialization in the 19th century to today, the interests of capital and the interests of the state have been firmly united. Only in the first half of the 20th century did social reform movements emerge to urge a more equitable distribution of the growing economic bounty that industrial society wrought.

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Business Case for H2O Infrastructure Webinar w/special guest Senator Reed (D- RI)

The Responsible Business Summit New York 2020

Making the Business Case on Clean Water Issues to the Media

Effective Advocating & Lobbying Your Elected Officials on Clean Water and other issues

Regenerative Earth Summit

A History of Capitalism: The Role of Business in Shaping the American Economy

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Deep Dive: Green Infrastructure

Business Case for H2O Infrastructure Webinar w/special guest Senator Reed (D- RI)

The Responsible Business Summit New York 2020

Making the Business Case on Clean Water Issues to the Media

Effective Advocating & Lobbying Your Elected Officials on Clean Water and other issues

Regenerative Earth Summit

A History of Capitalism: The Role of Business in Shaping the American Economy

Membership benefits your business! workers! future generations! the planet!

Areas of Impact

Initiatives

Knowledge Hub

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