[SustainableNC] N.C. Save Our State Sustainability Conference in October

[Sharron Rogers]

Forum Highlights Strategies for Companies to Reduce Costs, Benefit
Environment

A business trend called sustainability is sweeping the globe.  Big name
businesses, including DuPont, Ford, McDonald's and BP, are beginning to
transform their operations using sustainability principles.  Sustainable
business is a hot trend because reducing waste and conserving resources
offers significant competitive advantage to the companies that embrace these
tactics.

Sustainability: Today¹s Strategy for North Carolina Business will be the
first state wide sustainable business conference held in North Carolina.  It
will take place on Wednesday, October 23, 2002 at the Friday Center in
Chapel Hill.  Speakers will discuss how their companies have used
sustainability to increase earnings, lower costs, decrease environmental
impacts, enhance reputation and raise owner equity.  

Paul Hawken, founder of Smith & Hawken and noted business author, will
deliver the keynote address.  Citing business trends and examples, he paints
a picture of industrial transformation that will take us from inefficient,
pollution-generation business practices to a highly efficient system of
capitalism that wastes virtually nothing.  

Other speakers include:

Paul Tebo, Ph.D.,  Corporate Vice President, Safety, Health and the
Environment, DuPont
Jonathan Roseman, Executive Communications and External Initiatives
Director, The Home Depot
Kyle Mitchell, Vice President, Construction and Engineering, Food Lion
Gail Lindsey, President, Design Harmony, Inc.      
Stuart Hart and James Johnson, Co-Directors, Center for Sustainable
Enterprise, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Jim Hartsfield, Interface, Inc.
William Ross, Secretary, NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Larry Shirley, Director, State Energy Office
Jeff Tiller, Southface Energy

Save Our State, a North Carolina nonprofit promoting sustainable economic
growth and natural resource conservation, is sponsoring the conference with
major support from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.  The Home Depot, The
Michael & Laura Brader-Araje Foundation, The News and Observer, NC Electric
Membership Corp., Progress Energy and the State Energy Office are providing
additional support.

For more information call toll free 877-263-2785 or visit www.sosnc.org. 




Sharron Rogers
Environmental Sustainability Coordinator
NC Division of Pollution Prevention
919.715.6526
 <mailto:sharron.rogers at ncmail.net> sharron.rogers at ncmail.net     
 <http://www.sustainablenc.org/> www.SustainableNC.org   
 



 
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