SBI Sustainable Resource Network

October 23, 2007
7:30 am ET – 6:00 pm ET
Hyatt Regency of New Brunswick, NJ
Two Albany Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

New Jersey is a “perfect storm” for bioenergy development – urban density, abundant transportation and shipping infrastructure, land available for sighting plants, and ready access to a large market. Feedstocks from municipal and commercial wastes – such as food & fiber waste, wood, restaurant grease, even yard wastes – can provide efficient, clean-burning energy and fuels.

This full day forum will provide an overview of opportunities for biofuels & bioenergy in New Jersey. For information and registration visit www.thegreeneconomy.com or call (609) 520-0056. Sponsor and exhibitor opportunities still available – see website for more details. The Green Economy bioenergy program is produced in partnership with EBA-NY, CEEP, and Einstein’s Alley.

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September 11, 2007
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EDT

People – Planet – and Profits is rapidly becoming the new mantra of the 21st century business person. Business leaders and managers are challenged as never before to address a myriad of issues that go far beyond the single profit motive. People issues ranging from worker health and safety, employee morale and engagement, as well as societal issues of entrenched poverty are rising to the fore as core business issues. Environmental issues affecting the entire planet, such as global warming threaten to affect the very survival of the planet and create an urgent call for action.

Given the enormous complexity and challenges before us, what can business managers and leaders do? Regardless of your role, function, position or company, what can you do? How can business leaders and managers create a better balance between the needs of people, the planet, and profit in both the short- and long-term?

As a step forward on the journey to a more sustainable world, an ever increasing number of organizations are beginning to move towards a new “sustainability” business paradigm – one that focuses on creating a better balance between social, environmental, and economic factors for short- and long-term performance. In more and more cases, businesses are adopting sustainability-related values, principles, strategies and practices.

Join this complimentary Webcast where we’ll discuss the findings from a recent global survey on Sustainability sponsored by the American Management Association, and conducted by the Human Resource Institute in collaboration with the Institute for Sustainable Enterprise at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

For an hour, you’ll explore:

• The significant gap between how much employees in companies personally care as compared to how much they think their companies care about sustainability-related issues

• The relationship between sustainability and company performance

• The twelve most widely used sustainability-related practices

• The business factors driving greater focus on sustainability, as well as factors hindering its progress, both today and as we look forward into the next ten years

• How the most sustainable companies create a foundation, traction and broad stakeholder engagement for sustainability

Presenters:

• Jeana Wirtenberg, President, Jeana Wirtenberg & Assoc. LLC; Co- Founder, Institute for Sustainable Enterprise, Fairleigh Dickinson University
• Jay Jamrog, Executive Director, Human Resource Institute/ Institute for Corporate Productivity
• Ed Reilly, CEO, American Management Association

Best practices from such sustainability leaders as:

• Ray Anderson, Chairman and Founder from Interface, Inc., and
• Govi Rao from Philips Lighting, and now CEO, LED Effects

(See attached Flyer: AMA Webcast Flyer)

REGISTRATION: (Reservations are required)
Meeting Number: 17587-00007
Tel: 1-800-262-9699
Register online: http://www.amanet.org/events/hri-sustainabilty/

Be sure to reference code XA51 when registering

 Friday, August 24, 2007, 8 a.m. The Orangerie, FDU Madison.

Includes Somerset Hills Business Network, Gateway Regional Chamber of Commerce, and others