Earthx Conference is a series of conferences that convene for the purpose of cultivating relationships and forming partnerships between mission-driven advocates, investors, accelerators, researchers and other concerned world citizens. The conference goals are to educate, promote and instigate activities that sustain environmental initiatives with a substantial, positive impact on all living things and on our planet.
Virtual Climate Day CEO Dialogue: Redefining Corporate Climate Leadership
ASBC Partner Climate Collaborative is working hard on a plan to share its full Climate Day content with you, and in the meantime, it is excited to announce an upcoming 1.5 hour virtual session with keynotes for the day — the CEOs of Danone NA, ASBC Business members W.S. Badger Company and Seventh Generation — three companies defining what a holistic company-level response to climate change looks like.
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.
Regenerative Earth Summit
Join At The Epicenter for the third annual Regenerative Earth Summit (RES19) – 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.
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.
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
Boston GreenFest
Boston GreenFest is a grassroots effort organized by theFoundation for a Green Future and its dedicated team of community volunteers. Our goal is to educate and empower people to create a more sustainable, healthier world. We are actively building an interconnected, ever expanding network. From individuals young to old, business to nonprofit, neighborhood association to academic institution, Boston GreenFest welcomes everyone!
Whether an emerging start-up or established Fortune 500 business, your sustainability message will gain meaningful widespread visibility with our festival attendees. Our event will also feature the Massachusetts GreenTech Expo on Saturday, August 17th which will be open to the public.
Boston GreenFest is excited to bring you this wonderful free three-day festival in a new venue on the Rose Kennedy Greenway and Long Wharf. Our theme this year is Connecting Land and Sea. Be better stewards of our environment, share ideas and celebrate with us…and Do It the Green Way!
Net Impact Conference 2019
Join three days of 50+ sessions covering impact topic such as:
- Social Impact Career & Professional Development
- Community Development & Urban Revitalization
- Corporate Citizenship
- Environmental Sustainability & Circular Economy
- Social Justice & Equity
- Social Finance & Impact Investing
- Climate Solutions & Responsible Living
- International Development & Entrepreneurship
ASBC CEO & Co-founder Jeffrey Hollender will be speaking on the panel + interactive, “Taking a Stand: How and Why Business Should Speak Out on Public Policyâ€.
