Sustainability in Business Pt 1

The Forum on Sustainability in Business includes talks by Andrew Winston of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy; Neel Bradham, VP for Business Development at Interface Inc, and Alan Hecht of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency




Moderators:
*Dr. Geoffrey Heal, director of Center for Economy Environment and Society, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists *Paul Garret, professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, Columbia University.

Speakers:
*Andrew Winston, director of the corporate environmental strategy project at Yale's school of management, and the co-author of Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage.

*Neel Bradham, Vice President for Business Development at Interface Inc., a worldwide leader in environmentally-sustainable innovations in both the design and manufacturing of high-quality recyclable modular carpets.

*Dr. Alan Hecht, Director for Sustainable Development for the US Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development.

Businesses are finding new ways to make a business solution of environmental problems. Come learn from business leaders and field experts on different strategies used to implement sustainability values into business models. The Forum on Sustainability in Business will explore how businesses can support sustainable development and the challenges they face when doing so. This event will also examine the roles public policy and NGOs in taking these business initiatives to become mainstream practices in the marketplace.

(April 6, 2007 at Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA))

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