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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.
This Week's Events
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Wednesday, May 25, 1pm ET - ([link removed]) Investing in Communities through Crowdfunding ([link removed]) | ASBN Live

Join us for this panel discussion to learn about opportunities to raise funds and invest in companies and projects that support community building. Panelists include Eve Picker of SmallChange.co (real estate projects), Michelle Thimesch of Crowdfund Mainstreet (local investing), and Franz Hochstrasser of Raise Green (clean energy and environment). Moderated by ASBN member and angel investor David O'Leary.
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Thursday, May 26, 1pm ET - Climate & Energy | Contact [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) to participate | Working Group

The Climate & Energy working group discusses and identifies key problems, solutions, and strategies to address the climate and energy crisis our planet is facing. This week's meeting is a big push for sign on for the Senate to move climate bill forward in reconciliation.

Thursday, May 26, 1pm ET - Transforming Business Ownership | Contact [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) to participate | Working Group

The Transforming Ownership for Social Justice working group strives to demonstrate the powerful benefits achieved by employee-owned enterprises for workers in terms of additional income and retirement savings as well as improved workplace conditions.

Thursday, May 26, 1pm ET - ASBN Follow up meeting for Defining Sustainable Chemistry for White House Office of Science and Technology | Contact [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) mailto:[email protected] participate | Working Group

ASBN is continuing it work to convene our members and allies to craft our recommendations that we will send to the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP)

On April 4, 2022 the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) published in the Federal Register a Notice of Request for Information (RFI) from the Public on Federal Programs and Activities in Support of Sustainable Chemistry. ASBN sees Sustainable Chemistry as an essential element in our efforts to create a just and sustainable economy. We intend to comment to OSTP in support of a definition for Sustainable Chemistry that embraces safe chemicals, just and equitable distribution of benefits from production and use of chemicals, just and equitable remediation of past harms, and sourcing of chemical raw materials from regenerative systems.
June Events
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Wednesday, June 1, 1pm ET - ([link removed]) Searching for the Soul of Businesses- A Conversation with Alan Murray & Jeffrey Hollender ([link removed]) | ASBN Live

Join the American Sustainable Business Network co-founder and CEO Jeffrey Hollender for a 1-on-1 conversation with Alan Murray, CEO of Fortune Media and author of the forthcoming book Tomorrow’s Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business. Tomorrow’s Capitalist is a report from the front lines on how corporate CEOs—the ultimate pragmatists—realize that they could lose their “operating license” unless they tackle the fundamental issues of our time: climate; diversity and inclusion; and inequality and workforce opportunity. Responding to their employees and customers who are demanding corporate change, they have taken the lead in establishing some bold new principles promoting “stakeholder” capitalism, ensuring that for the first time in more than a half a century, it’s not just shareholders who have a say in how corporations are run.
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Wednesday, June 8, 1pm ET - ([link removed]) Blockchain, NFTs, & Metaverse For Good ([link removed]) | ASBN Live
Hear how our orgs and community can understand these new technologies and utilize them for good! This will be an exciting and informative interactive webinar with SVC former co-chair Gagan J Levy, our resident blockchain enthusiast, CEO of the creative agency Guru and CoFounder of Bamboo Asset Management dba Pink Panda.

He will be joined by an incredible group of leaders hailing from traditional finance that have jumped into this exciting space: Adam Carlton, expat senior traditional finance consultant and now CoFounder and CEO of Pink Panda; Rose Penelope Yee, chair of the social good advisory board for Pink Panda and CEO of Green Retirement, and Gene Truono, head of compliance for Pink Panda and former Chief Compliance Officer for Paypal amongst other compliance positions at JP Morgan Chase and American Express.
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Wednesday, June 15, 1pm ET - ([link removed]) Federal Contracting 101 ([link removed]) | ASBN Live
The Federal Government buys more goods and services than any other organization on the planet. But being a government contractor isn't for the faint of heart. Fortunately, purpose-driven companies - B corps, PBCs and the like - are used to some of the complexities of doing good for the world while also making a profit. At this session, the leaders of three government contractors that are also certified B corporations (Fors Marsh, Rescue Agency, TCG) will walk you through the pluses and minuses of government work and will try to answer all your questions. If you've ever wanted to do business with the government, this is a good place to start.
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Thursday, June 23, 4pm ET - ([link removed]) ASBN Members PRIDE Networking Happy Hour ([link removed]) | ASBN Member Networking
American Sustainable Business Network invites you to join us Thursday, June 23rd at 4pm ET for a PRIDE Networking Happy Hour! Bring yourself & a refreshment as we get to know fellow LGBTQIA+ ASBN members and how we can support and work with one another. Jillian Gerstley, Manager of Investors Circle, will be moderating.
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Wednesday, June 29, 1pm ET - ([link removed]) Socially Responsible Supply Chain Contracts ([link removed]) | ASBN Live
Join the American Sustainable Business Network to learn about how to "enlist your contracts as allies" in pursuing your mission and achieving positive social impact from experts Sarah Dadush and Olivia Windham Stewart. In this webinar, you'll learn about a new toolkit on responsible business contracting developed by an American Bar Association working group. The toolkit is designed to improve the human rights performance of supply chain relationships, both domestic and international. Together, we'll gain insight into how to incorporate social impact into company DNA by codifying prosocial, shared-responsibility principles into your legal documents.
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Just & Sustainable Economy Podcast

Episode 20 - ([link removed]) Regenerative Agriculture & Climate Change ([link removed])
“Regenerative” is one of the new buzz words right now—though many of us are not sure why it is important and how it relates to our life and work. ASBN assembled a panel of entrepreneurs, farmers, and investors who are practicing at the forefront of the regenerative organic, agriculture movement. Today, you will learn why regenerative, organic agriculture is important to the earth and its inhabitants. Further, you will have a chance to explore how you can incorporate the practice into your investment, business or educational pursuits. Held just six weeks after COVID shut down much of the US, this conversation looks the disruption in our food supply chain, and at the moment many of our organic suppliers were facing unprecedented adversity that threatened their future.

This conversation was led by Nancy Rosenzweig (Values Aligned Capital) featuring Mark Retzloff (Co-Founder of Horizon Organic Dairy, Aurora Organic Dairy, and Alfalfa’s Markets), Phyllis Van Amburgh (Founder, dharma Lea); David Barber (Co-Founder/Owner, Blue Hill; Founding Partner, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture); Jean-Charles Morisseau (Chairman, Cleante, Ubees, and Veilleur de Nuit).
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