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Welcome to the American Sustainable Business Network's weekly events and programming roundup. Each week you'll receive one email featuring all of the upcoming events scheduled at ASBN. 
ASBN Live - Webinars

Friday, April 8, 1pm ET - Skoll World Forum: Inclusive Economic Prosperity for All- An Integrated Stakeholder Approach

American Sustainable Business Council is pleased to be hosting a virtual Skoll World Forum Ecosystem Day event. There is a massive need for investment in overlooked, under-resourced, and underestimated communities across the United States. The good news is that there are a growing number of communities taking ownership of their economies. There are more local developments and enterprises emerging that are helping to build more just, inclusive, and sustainable communities and economies. Learn about investable examples throughout the U.S. that are deploying capital, real estate, policy, design, and climate solutions to uplift their communities from within. This conversation amongst Valerie Red-Horse Mohl (East Bay Community Foundation), Carmen Huertas-Noble (1 Worker 1 Vote), Damien Goodmon (Downtown Crenshaw), Clay Colombe (Rosebud Sioux Economy Development Corporation), and April De Simone (Trahan Architects) will cover compelling case-studies and the necessary public policy solutions required to implement this work on a broader scale.

The 2022 Skoll World Forum is free and open to all. REGISTER for the larger forum by April 4th.

REGISTER for Inclusive Economic Prosperity for All

Wednesday, April 20, 1pm ET - Ensuring Global Peace Through Ecological Regeneration

American Sustainable Business Network invites you to join us Wednesday, April 20th at 1pm ET for Ensuring Global Peace Through Ecological Regeneration. In celebration of Earth Day, Monica Willard, a longtime anti-nuclear activist will join fellow peace advocate and President of the Global Security Institute Jonathan Gaffney for a discussion with the Livable Planet Working Group Co-chair Sierra Flanigan about the inextricable connection between environmental regeneration and international conflict resolution.

REGISTER for Ensuring Global Peace Through Ecological Regeneration

Wednesday, April 27, 1pm ET - Economic Empowerment and Ecommerce

American Sustainable Business Network and GoodCarts invite you to join us Wednesday, April 27th at 1pm ET for a dynamic discussion on the future of economic empowerment and ecommerce including democratizing sustainable and social impact entrepreneurship for all. Featuring an opening interview with eleven year-old Mya Beaudry, founder of Kokom Scrunchies by Kyle St-Amour Brennan (Shopify). Additional speakers to be announced!

REGISTER for Economic Empowerment and Ecommerce
ASBN Investor Events

Thursday, March 31, 2pm ET - Investor & Funder Call: Native Conservancy

Alaska Natives staking a claim in the state’s plans to grow a billion-dollar mariculture industry. While leading fisheries are lining up for permits, the difference lies in millennia of experience in sustainable harvest and marine responsibility that inform a Native brand in indigenous-led kelp farming and processed foods.

Join Dune Lankard (Native Conservancy) and current investors and funders on how you can participate in building a resilient, regenerative, blue economy in Alaska.

This event is open to any accredited investors/finders

REGISTER for Investor & Funder Call: Native Conservancy
Circular City Week
ASBN and member mebl present a two-part webinar series as a part of Circular City Week 

Monday, May 2, 1pm ET - How Business Leaders Drive Change- Leading the Way on ‘Circularity’ from Within

How do business leaders drive change from within toward greater ‘circularity’ in corporate practices? What strategies do they use to transform their companies along the production- and life-cycles of their products and services – from design, sourcing, manufacturing and sales to use, reuse, recycling, and/or end-of-life?

Join Jennifer Gootman, Vice President, Sustainability: Social & Environmental Impact, Williams-Sonoma, Inc in conversation with Tensie Whelan, Director, NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. These experienced leaders will unpack various approaches to driving circularity, sharing lessons learned on their companies’ journeys to a more sustainable future.

REGISTER for How Business Leaders Drive Change

Wednesday, May 4, 1pm ET - Public Policy & ‘Circularity’ - Business Can Move the Needle

How can companies support and inform critical public policy to advance the transition to a circular economy? Using examples from the furniture and home-cleaning products industries, we’ll explore opportunities for involvement by companies of all sectors, sizes and levels of policy engagement. Join us to learn more about circular economy policy in the US and how businesses can play an essential role in policymaking and advocacy for circularity. With momentum building on key policies – including extended producer responsibility, plastics bans, toxics legislation, and right to repair, along with new federal climate and infrastructure investment – this is an important time for the business sector to lead the change.

Panelists include Gat Caperton, President/CEO of Gat Creek; Jeffrey Hollender, CEO & Co-Founder of ASBN and Co-Founder & former CEO of Seventh Generation; and Stephanie Erwin, Director of Circular Economy Policy, ASBN. Moderated by Robin Wilson, author, designer, real estate developer, and expert in clean design.

REGISTER for Public Policy & ‘Circularity’
ASBN Programming - Recurring Meetings

Business for Democracy
Wednesday, March 30, 2pm ET - Members-only event; Contact Devika Rao to participate

The Business for Democracy working group believes that the support of businesses, big and small, is increasingly pertinent to an inclusive democracy. ASBN has long championed inclusivity and equity as enduring principles on which a healthy economy is founded. And a functioning free and fair democracy is an incomparable tool to achieve such a landscape. We are committed to pioneering these necessary reforms in order to ensure the survival of democracy by convening interested businesses with a shared commitment to democracy.

ASBN-BizNGO Safer Chemicals Public Policy 
Friday, April 8, 12pm ET - Members-only event; Contact David Levine to participate

The ASBN-BizNGO Safer Chemicals Public Policy working group focuses on public policy initiatives at the state and federal level. In collaboration with BizNGO this working group features in-depth analyses by policy experts, monitors federal and state chemical policy initiatives, and engages in and comments on initiatives where we have expertise.

ASBN 2022 Conference
ASBN 2021 was our highest-rated conference yet.
Take advantage of early bird pricing for ASBN 2022 while it lasts!

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ASBN Partner Events

ReDesign Week 2022 

Register for 3 virtual events hosted by ASBN member mebl that explore creative solutions to advancing sustainability and decreasing waste in furniture and design.

EQUITY CAN'T BE AN ADD-ON: A CONVERSATION ABOUT DESIGN, WASTE AND RACIAL JUSTICE | April 5, 12:00 - 1:00pm ET

 

COOL FURNITURE, HAPPIER PLANET, SMART BUSINESS: INTRODUCING A NEW GENERATION OF 'CIRCULAR' NYC FURNITURE BUSINESSES | April 6, 12:00 - 1:00pm ET


ALTERNATIVES TO THE CURB: HOW REAL NEW YORKERS REDECORATE AND KEEP FURNITURE OUT OF LANDFILLS | April 7, 5:00 - 6:00pm ET

Canopy's 2nd Annual Good Business Summit

 

April 14, 9AM – 2PM ET | In-person, Louisville, KY - Register here

Canopy’s 2nd Annual Good Business Summit introduces newcomers and longtime friends to the global good business movement and the innovative ways Kentucky businesses are showing up for our people and our landscape.

This event features a luncheon keynote talk by our very own Jeffrey Hollender on the larger movement, a workshop panel highlighting the efforts of several Kentucky businesses, and two networking opportunities.

 
American Sustainable Business Network (ASBN) is a movement builder in partnership with the business and investor community. ASBN develops and advocates solutions for policymakers, business leaders, and investors that support an equitable, regenerative, and just economy that benefits all⁠—people and planet. As a multi-issue, membership organization advocating on behalf of every business sector, size, and geography, ASBN and its association members collectively represent over 250,000 businesses across our networks.
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