SBI Sustainable Resource Network

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

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Welcome

This is a working site for several Sustainable Resource and Action Networks – for businesses and individuals; startup ventures and venture funds; agencies, communities and nongovernmental organizations – that are supporting the Sustainable Business Incubator. These networks overlap and intersect at several points; the goal is to provide our client companies with access to the right organizations and contacts for their purposes.

Portions of the site are intended to become free and open to the public, but some will be available to Advisory Board Members only. To become a member, please register and give us your information, and we’ll contact you regarding Board membership.

The site was developed in association with the Sustainable Business Incubator at Fairleigh Dickinson University, in Madison, NJ, and is part of the service work of the Institute for Sustainable Enterprise in the Silberman College of Business.

Member, Cranford Township Committee

Member, Cranford Environmental Commission

Commissioner, Police & Fire, Township of Cranford

President, Advent Mortgage

Owner, PC Ed , Inc.

Contact: mcdonoughgeorge[@]yahoo.com, g.mcdonough[@]adventmortgagellc.com, G-McDonough@cranfordnj.org

908-276-1724 (office), 908-868-1966 (cell)

Owner, The Williams-Droescher Mill (c. 1737), 347 Lincoln Ave., Cranford:

Entry at www.Cranford.com, the official website of Cranford, NJ:

		George McDonough Commissioner of Public SafetyPh: 276-8866 Email: G-McDonough@cranfordnj.org Term: 2005-2007
Commissioner of Finance, 2005 Cranford Planning Board, 2001-present Cranford River Maintenance Committee, 2002-present President, PC Ed, a Cranford based computer education firm, 1990-present Interim Administrator, Hopewell Township, 2005 Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Rutgers University, 1988-1998 Adjunct Professor of Public Administration, Kean University, 2001 BA, Political Science, Bloomfield College Masters of Public Administration, Rutgers University

ANJEC is a private non-profit educational organization. Our mission is to promote the public interest in natural resource protection, reclamation and sustainable development and to support environmental commissions working with community officials and concerned citizens. Our programs are funded through grants from foundations, memberships and contributions and contracts with the state of NJ. “Helping environmental commissions, individuals, local and state agencies preserve natural resources and promote sustainable communities in New Jersey since 1969.”

Contact Information
ANJEC
P.O. Box 157
Mendham, NJ 07945
Phone: 973-539-7547
Fax: 973-539-7713
Email: info@anjec.org

• Executive Director - Sandy Batty
• Assistant Director - Kerry Miller

http://www.anjec.org/