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Conference Schedule - Sunday, September
26 - Wednesday, September 29
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| TUESDAY
AM |
THE
BUSINESS CASE |
| 8:30 am |
PLENARY |
THE ECONOMIC CORE
OF SUSTAINABILITY
MICHAEL PHILLIPS,
Chairman, Russell Investment Group - Corporate
Social Responsibility, Enterprise Risk, and the Board
CARSTEN HENNINGSEN,
Chairman, Portfolio 21 - Why Companies’
SRI Screening Quotients Are Driving Up their Shareholder Value
FRANK DIXON,
Managing Director for Research, Innovest - Total
Corporate Social Responsibility: Making CSR and SRI Sustainable
Consumer groups, fund managers, corporate public-relations
officers and many CEOs are being affected by the dawning awareness
that how business is done has an exponentially greater impact
on social well-being than the sharing of profits after business
deals are done. But this elevated concept of corporate citizenship
is also becoming a business requirement for success in the
marketplace. The speakers in this plenary each bring major
contributions toward mapping this ethically broadened pathway
to the future of business. Together they bring you a business
compass that points toward success in the marketplace, today
and tomorrow.
Moderator: DIANNE
DILLON-RIDGLEY, Director, Green Mountain Energy Company,
and Director, Interface, Inc. |
| 10:15 am- 10:45 am |
BREAK |
| 10:45 am |
WORKSHOPS |
SYSTEMS THINKING FOR HIGH
PERFORMANCE SUSTAINABLE ORGANIZATIONS
BOB DOPPELT, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University
of Oregon
Intro: This workshop is designed to help you think
systemically to address issues of sustainability. |
ECOPRENEURING AND INTRAPRENEURING:
THE KEY TO PROFITABLE SUSTAINABILITY
GIFFORD PINCHOT III,
Author of Intrapreneuring and Chairman of The Bainbridge
Graduate Institute (home of the sustainable MBA)
Intro: There is no sustainable innovation without
a passionate ecopreneur. Learn how to bring out the hidden ecopreneurial
spirit in self and others. |
MAKING YOUR SMALL BUSINESS
SUSTAINABLE -- STANDARDS AND STEPS
MARSHA WILLARD,
Axis Performance Group
BETSY POWER, Power-Selles Imports, Inc
Intro: This workshop will help you identify targeted,
often money-saving strategies and practices for moving toward
sustainable business practices – even at the small business
scale. |
WHAT'S LAW GOT TO DO WITH
IT? THE WHY AND HOW OF SUSTAINABILITY
JONOTHAN KROMAN & SCOTT WARNER, Attorneys, Garvey, Schubert
Barer
KELLYE TESTY, Faculty Director of the Center on Corporations,
Law & Society at Seattle University School of Law
Intro: The influence of law on a business includes compliance
with legal requirements and minimizing the risk of liability,
but law also provides tools that can help businesses integrate
sustainable practices into their internal identity and their
external relationships. This workshop will discuss the role
of law in business, particularly in the post-Enron world that
values transparency and disclosure, and will offer some specific
ideas about how lawyers can assist businesses in incorporating
sustainability into their operations. |
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CREATING THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE STANDARDS
COMMUNITY & BUSINESS
GARVIN JARBUSH, Director of Research, Sierra Club Mutual
Funds
STEVE LYNDENBERG, Domini Index
DEBRA HALL, Director
of Corporate Accountability Programs, CERES
ALISON WISE, Director
of Business Development and Policy, Future500
Moderator:
AILEEN ICHIKAWA,
Director of CAP Gap Audit and CAP Alliance – Future
500
Intro: Join us for a candid discussion in a World Café
setting to drive understanding, exploration and progress in
the dialogue between the standards community and business. |
TRANSLATING SUSTAINABILITY AND STRATEGY
INTO ACTIONABLE FIRST (AND SECOND) STEPS AND MEASURING THE RESULTS
ROB
ABBOTT, CMC, Chief Solutions Provider, Abbott Strategies
Intro: In this hands-on workshop participants will
learn how the Balanced Scorecard can be used to reflect sustainability,
and crucially, help ensure that the right action is taken at
the right time, mapped into a small set of meaningful measures,
and used to drive implementation of an organization's strategic
intent. |
PRODUCTIVE SHAREHOLDER DIALOGUES: LEADING
EDGE SOURCE OF INFORMATION, INSPIRATION AND PROFITABILITY
BRUCE
HERBERT, Newground Social Investment
MICHELLE CHAN-FISHEL, Green Investments Project
Intro: Properly viewed, shareholder initiatives represent
a key source of untapped information that can put attentive
management teams well ahead of the curve. Join this session
to learn basic and advanced strategies for making shareholder
dialogues peaceful, advantageous and profitable.
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THE SUSTAINABLE COMPANY: HOW TO CREATE
LASTING VALUE THROUGH SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
JOHN WHALEN, Sustainable Value Partners
Intro: The sustainable value framework outlined in the
book The Sustainable Company, helps line managers identify the
business risks and opportunities that lie hidden in stakeholder
issues and to translate those risks and opportunities into action
that creates real business value. Learn more from Sustainable
Value Partner John Whalen. |
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GREENING THE FOOD BUSINESS
AND GREENING BUSINESS FOOD
CARL REBSTOCK, Executive Director, Passion Fish Passionfish
DAVID YUDKIN, Owner, Hot Lips Pizza
KARL KUPERS, Farmer, Columbia Plateau Producers
KELLI SANGER, Small Farm and Direct Marketing Program
Coordinator, Washington State Department of Agriculture
Others TBA
Moderator:
MARCY OSTROM:
Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources,
Washington State University
Intro: Food is one of the most fundamental ways
we interact with our environment. This panel explores ways
to improve the environment through changes in the way food
is produced, processed, distributed, and purchased. Along
each step of the route from field to table lie multiple opportunities
for leveraging beneficial changes in our food and farming
systems. Hear from a restaurant chain owner and a farmer that
teamed up to enhance food and soil quality and create new
domestic markets for sustainably-raised Washington wheat;
a seafood company that has created a new market niche based
on rigorous environmental standards; and an expert on sustainable
food purchasing practices.
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MBAS IN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS: PROGRAMS
AT THE CUTTING EDGE
Chair:
Rick Bunch, Executive Director, Bainbridge Graduate Institute
Participants: Ron Nahser, Provost, Presidio
World College
others TBN
Intro: With a few exceptions, traditional MBA programs
have been seriously lagging at integrating sustainable business
values into their curricula. In this workshop, the leaders of
some truly innovative new MBA programs in sustainable business
and management will describe these educational programs and
share their insights and experience to date in developing and
implementing the programs. |
Open Space
This option is repeated during each workshop breakout series.
Conference participants may convene discussion groups around
topics of self-selected interest. |
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Help Create Sustainable
Business Policies: This interactive workshop using
keyboard technology, will enable discussants to propose and
formulate steps that can be taken by government, business, and
NGO's to facilitate sustainable business development. It will
be repeated during each of three workshop series breakouts and
everyone is encouraged to participate on at least one occasion.
The products of this workshop will be presented for everyone's
review in the conference’s final Action Plenary on Wednesday.
Facilitator: WALT
ROBERTS, The Performance Center |
| TUESDAY
PM |
INNOVATIONS
& APPLICATIONS – THE LEADING EDGE |
| 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm |
LUNCHEON KEYNOTE
BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE: Is sustainability possible in
a profit-driven world?
PLUS SPECIAL AWARD PRESENTATION: ENVIROSTARS RECOGNIZED LEADER
AWARD PRESENTATION
TACHI KIUCHI,
Chairman of the Future 500, CEO of Tokyo-based E-Square,
and former Chairman and CEO of Mitsubishi Electric America
OYSTEIN DAHLE,
Chairman of the Board, WorldWatch Institute, former VP of
ExxonESSO Norway Sustainability: The Future of Business
CHANDRAN NAIR, Global Institute for Tomorrow (GIFT) and
Former Chairman, ERM ASIA-PACIFIC
Moderator: BILL
SHIREMAN, CEO, Future 500 |
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2004 ENVIROSTARS RECOGNIZED LEADER
AWARD PRESENTATION: This distinction will go to a high-profile
business in the Puget Sound region that has reduced its overall
environmental footprint. The EnviroStars Recognized Leader acts
as a model, mentor, and catalyst for the spread of environmentally
sustainable practices. |
| 1:45 pm |
BREAK |
| 2:15 pm |
FORUMS |
KEYS TO PROFITABLE SUSTAINABILITY: |
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CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES |
CLEAN PRODUCTS |
PARTNERSHIPS & ALLIANCES |
MANAGEMENT INNOVATION |
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THE NEW APOLLO ALLIANCE
BRACKEN HENDRICKS, Director, New Apollo Alliance
RICHARD FELDMAN, King County Labor Council
ANDREW BEEBE, Energy Innovations
DIANNE DILLON-RIDGLEY,
Director, Green Mountain Energy Company
Moderator:
INGRID RASCH, Vice President, Human Resources, SONUS
Pharmaceuticals
Intro: This forum will deliver the case for clean
energy technologies based on economic development, jobs, security,
and environment. The New Apollo Project will tap our ingenuity,
our collective spirit, and our competitive drive for America’s
collective prosperity. |
CLOSING THE CIRCUIT: TOWARD
SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS
STAMPP W. CORBIN,
President and CEO, RetroBox
STEVE KESINGER,
Vice President, Corporate Procurement, Nordstrom
WAYNE RIFER, Project Director, Western Electric Product
Stewardship Initiative
Moderator:
DAVID STITZHAL,
Coordinator, Northwest Product Stewardship Council
Intro: This session, with lessons for every business
sector and product category, explores recent advancements in
both policy and practicality, all in the context of moving toward
a sustainable management system for one of our most challenging,
ubiquitous, and indispensable keystones of commerce: electronic
products. |
REGIONAL ECONOMIES AND SUSTAINABLE
ENTERPRISE
GARY LAWRENCE Principal
Sustainability Consultant, Arup
ALAN DURNING,
Executive Director, Northwest Environment Watch
BOB DREWEL, Executive Director, Puget Sound Regional Council
GLEN PASCALL, Regional Economist and Public Policy Consultant
ANDREA FERNANDEZ, Arup
Intro: In this
forum we will examine the potentially beneficial relationships
between establishment of regional sustainability indicators,
corporate social responsibility reporting and regional economic
strategy development. |
VALUES-DRIVEN
INNOVATION AS A STRATEGY FOR INCREASED PROFITABILITY
BRIAN AND MARY
NATTRASS
Co-founders, Sustainability Partners
BEN PACKARD, Director of Environmental Affairs, Starbucks
Coffee Company and member, Governor's Advisory Panel on Sustainability,
Washington State
ROB SAFRATA, CEO Novex Couriers, British Columbia
Intro: Values-driven innovation™ is a disciplined
approach to innovation that enables an organization to systematically
examine all of its processes and products through specific
values lenses. This has the potential to yield quantum breakthroughs
in every sector of an organizations operations, which can
yield superior financial returns over time. |
| 3:30 pm |
BREAK |
| 4 pm |
WORKSHOPS |
ORGANIZATIONAL
CHANGE
BRIAN & MARY
NATTRASS, Co-founders, Sustainability Partners
Intro: Sustainability/CSR strategies that are aligned
with organizational mission, cultural norms and expectations,
and other strategic directions have a higher probability of
success. This workshop will provide an intellectual framework
for understanding organizational change, along with discussion
of successful and unsuccessful approaches. |
REMEDIATION
AND RESTORATION
CALLIE RIDOLFI,
Ridolfi Inc.
Intro: This forum will focus on innovative techniques
and sustainable solutions for environmental remediation and
restoration. |
SUSTAINABLE
FORESTRY
PAUL HARLAN
V.P. Resources, Collins Pine (sustainable timber management),
BETTINA VON HAGEN Vice President, Forestry and Natural
Capital Fund, Ecotrust (sustainable forest communities)
JEFF MENDELSON:
Founder and President of New Leaf Paper (sustainable paper)Moderator:
GIFFORD PINCHOT
III: Chairman of The Bainbridge Graduate Institute (sustainable
business education)
Intro: The dominant industrial forestry practices
of today produce declining yields, declining jobs and unhealthy
forests that are susceptible to catastrophic fire. In this
workshop we will look at examples of profitable strategies
for timber companies, wood and fiber processors and forest
dependent communities.
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DIPPING OUR TOES IN THE WATER: CURRENT
MARITIME SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES
TINA STOTZ, Environmental
Program Manager, Washington State Ferries
CHARLIE CUNNIFF,
Executive Director, Environmental Coalition of South Seattle
KATE SNIDER, P.E.,
RLA, Principal, Floyd & Snider
Moderator:
WAYNE GROTHEER, Manager, Corporate Health, Environmental
and Risk Services, Port of Seattle
Intro: This panel will address a flotilla of sustainability
challenges and opportunities currently being worked on in maritime
transportation on and off the water. |
SUSTAINABLE PURCHASING – MORE
THAN ENVIRONMENT
EUN-SOOK GOIDEL, Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center
NEIL COLLIE, Development Director, Sustainable Products
Purchasing Coalition
JOSHUA PROUDFOOT, CEO, Good Company
STEVEN J. HARRIS, Environmentally Preferable Products PM,
Defense Logistics Information Service
Moderator:
DENNIS GAWLIK,
Managing Director, Procurement, Alaska Airlines
Intro: Procurement organizations, at the request
of their company's investors andshareholders, as well as their
customers, are increasingly being asked to behave in both an
environmentally and economically responsible manner. This panel
will discuss proven activities used to implement a proactive
procurement strategy. |
BRINGING CLEAN PRODUCTS INTO THE MAINSTREAM
MARKET: CHALLENGES & STRATEGIES
SCOTT MCDOUGAL,
President/CEO, TerraChoice Environmental Marketing
JASON FINNIS, President, Hemptown Clothing Company
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SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIAL
MATERIALS
Chair: DWIGHT COLLINS
DAVID CARROLL, VP, Environment and Government Affairs, Lafarge
North America Inc.
Case Study of Lafarge North America's Integration of
Sustainability Initiatives into its Building Materials and Manufacturing
Operations
BART KALE, Environmental Safety Manager, Seattle Plant,
Nucor Steel--Seattle, Inc.--Evolution of a Smoke Stack Industry
DAVID LAHAIE, President, Evergreen Recycling, Inc. -- Profitable
Recycling of Industrial Materials Across Industries |
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GREENING HEALTH CARE: FROM THE FOUNDATION
UP
BOB COWAN,
Facilities Manager, Hutch Cancer Research Center
DUNCAN GRIFFIN, NBBJ
JOHN WOOD, CHFM
and Region 10 Director – American Society of Healthcare
Engineering
KIT RATCLIFF, President/CEO, Ratcliff
Moderator:
CATE GABLE, Senior
Consultant, Director of Product Stewardship- Future 500
Intro: Leading facilities managers, architects
and engineers in the healthcare industry will discuss the barriers
healthcare facilities managers face in the implementation of
system eco-efficiencies--whether in energy, construction or
design--and how those barriers can be overcome. |
THE ROLE OF DIRECTORS IN ADVANCING TOTAL
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY
DIANNE DILLON-RIDGLEY,
Director, Green Mountain Energy Company, and Director, Interface,
Inc.
CATHERINE WALKER, Vice President for Administration and
University Counsel, Seattle University, Director of Recreational
Equipment, Inc., and Board Secretary for the Northwest Chapter
of the National Association of Corporate Directors.
DANA GOLD, Director, Center on Corporations, Law and Society,
Seattle University School of Law
Intro: This workshop will discuss some of the legal
and practical challenges, as well as opportunities, facing boards
in their efforts to integrate sustainability concepts into corporate
practice. |
CSR/SRI "SURVEY FATIGUE":
DRIVING CLARITY FROM CHAOS
AILEEN ICHIKAWA,
Director of CAP Gap Audit and CAP Alliance – Future
500
ALISON WISE, Director
of Business Development and Policy, Future 500
Intro: In a world of challenging CSR budgets, the development
of powerful software tools, coupled with effective assessment
methodologies, are making it possible to respond to the multitude
of demands from various CSR standards criteria and stakeholder
interests while gaining maximum benefit from the process. In
this session, explore tools developed by Future 500 -- the CAP
Gap Audit and sMapping, a program which can plan a stakeholder
engagement program in a day.. |
OPEN SPACE ROOM
This option is repeated during each workshop breakout series.
Conference participants may convene discussion groups around
topics of self-selected interest. |
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Help Create Sustainable
Business Policies:
This interactive workshop using keyboard technology, will enable
discussants to propose and formulate steps that can be taken
by government, business, and NGO's to facilitate sustainable
business development. It will be repeated during each of three
workshop series breakouts and everyone is encouraged to participate
on at least one occasion. The products of this workshop will
be presented for everyone's review in the conference’s
final Action Plenary on Wednesday.
Facilitator:
WALT ROBERTS,
The Performance Center |
| 5:15 pm |
BREAK |
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| 6:30 pm |
Gala Dinner |
OYSTEIN
DAHLE, Chairman of the Board WorldWatch Institute, board
chairman of the Norwegian Mountain Touring Association and former
executive vice president for ESSO Norway
Sustainability: The Future of Business |
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