The Livable Planet working group is dedicated to identifying systems and solutions that enable all life to thrive. This week we’re featuring a sampler of tools for systems change-makers. Three members will be sharing their incredible projects: Banking for Clean Water, Calculating environmental footprints of employees, and Impact investing for solar tax equity.
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The Corporate Transparency and ESG Disclosure working group strives to address the growing concerns about business activities which are unaccounted for, or currently escape disclosure as negative externalities, activities which at this point also do not affect the P&L or balance sheet of corporations. The focus of this month’s meeting will be to discuss and finalize our comment in response to the SEC’s proposal on the enhancement and standardization of climate-related disclosures.
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JoinNJ Congressman Andy Kimand ASBN’s ownMichael Greenas they sharetheir thoughts on how the federal government must take immediate action to address climate change. Learn why adopting innovative strategies to adapt to climate change is good for New Jersey’s environment, public health and business.
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 – including extended producer responsibility, plastics bans, toxics legislation, and right to repair, along with new federal climate and infrastructure investment – 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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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 ‘circularity’ in corporate practices? What strategies do they use to transform their companies along the production- and life-cycles of their products and services – 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 – finance, product, sustainability, marketing, operations, etc – to achieve sustainability, waste and business goals? Is it best to “go all in†or “take baby stepsâ€? We’ll explore change from within using examples from the furniture and consumer products industries to illustrate strategies applicable across many sectors.
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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American Sustainable Business Network invites you to join us Wednesday, April 20th at 1pm ET for Ensuring Global Peace Through Ecological Regeneration. In celebration of Earth Day,Monica Willard, a longtime anti-nuclear activist will join fellow peace advocates Jonathan Granoff (President of the Global Security Institute) and Kehkashan Basu (Voices Youth Gorbachev-Shultz Legacy Award for Nuclear Disarmament recipient) for a discussion with the Livable Planet Working Group Co-chairSierra Flaniganabout the inextricable connection between environmental regeneration and international conflict resolution.
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Canopy’s 2nd Annual Good Business Summit is the premier event for Kentucky’s socially and environmentally engaged businesses.
About this event Canopy’s 2nd Annual Good Business Summit introduces newcomers and longtime friends to the global good business movement and the innovative ways Kentucky businesses are showing up for our people and our landscape.
Keynote Speaker – Jeffrey Hollender, presented by University of Louisville College of Business
The Kentucky Good Business Panel, presented by Tech Startup Sponsor: Amplify Louisville
This panel of Kentuckians will discuss the specific ways they positively impact the state through business.
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The Good Business Showcase, presented by NASCEND, MCM CPAs & Advisors, and Louisville Public Media
The Good Business Showcase is a gathering of socially and environmentally conscious businesses throughout Kentucky. During this casual networking opportunity, participants can interact with Good Business owners from around the state.
American Sustainable Business Network invites members to join us Wednesday, April 13th at 3pm ET for a webinar featuring Renee Jones, Director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance. Director Jones will be addressing the SEC’s proposed rule that would enhance and standardize registrants’ climate-related disclosures for investors.
The enhancement and standardization of climate-related disclosures is overdue and urgently needed to help investors and American businesses compete effectively in an economy that needs to move faster than it is today towards decarbonization. Under today’s governance, businesses and investors working to decrease or eliminate their impact on the climate crisis do not have a level playing field when it comes to reporting and assessing climate-related topics and validating suitable investment choices. Investors and business owners, and consequently their impact on the climate crisis, will benefit from greater transparency and accountability proposed by the SEC.
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American Sustainable Business Council is pleased to be hosting a virtual Skoll World Forum Ecosystem Day event.There is a massive need for investment in overlooked, under-resourced, and underestimated communities across the United States. The good news is that there are a growing number of communities taking ownership of their economies. There are more local developments and enterprises emerging that are helping to build more just, inclusive, and sustainable communities and economies. Learn about investable examples throughout the U.S. that are deploying capital, real estate, policy, design, and climate solutions to uplift their communities from within. This conversation amongstValerie Red-Horse Mohl(East Bay Community Foundation),Carmen Huertas-Noble(1 Worker 1 Vote),Damien Goodmon(Downtown Crenshaw),Clay Colombe(Rosebud Sioux Economy Development Corporation), andApril De Simone(Trahan Architects) will cover compelling case-studies and the necessary public policy solutions required to implement this work on a broader scale.
The 2022SkollWorld Forum is free and open to all.REGISTERfor the larger forum by April 4th.
EQUITY CAN’T BE AN ADD-ON| A CONVERSATION ABOUT DESIGN, WASTE AND RACIAL JUSTICE
April 5, 12:00 – 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.
COOL FURNITURE, HAPPIER PLANET, SMART BUSINESS| INTRODUCING A NEW GENERATION OF’CIRCULAR’ NYC FURNITURE BUSINESSES
April 6, 12:00 – 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 ‘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.
ALTERNATIVES TO THE CURB| HOW REAL NEW YORKERS REDECORATE AND KEEP FURNITURE OUT OF LANDFILLS
April 7, 5:00 – 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 – connecting with great furniture, each other and the circular economy! Meet the faces behindBuy Nothing – Upper East Side group,Double R Design,AMANO Brooklyn,ReMix Market, andREDU.
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