February 27, 2008 - GiI Friend presents The State of "Sustainability"
We are honored to have Gil Friend as our esteemed speaker for the 15th Annual Chung-Watson Lecture Series in Business Ethics. Gil is a systems ecologist and business consultant with more than 35 years in business, communications and environmental innovation. He has written extensively and lectures widely on sustainability issues. He holds an MS in Systems Ecology from Antioch University. He was the founding board member of internet pioneer Institute for Global Communications, and played key and founding roles in such seminal environmental enterprises as EcoNet, GreenLine, the California Office of Appropriate Technology, and Buckminster Fuller's "World Game". He was co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, one of the nation's leading urban ecology and economic development think-tanks.
In The State of "Sustainability," Gil will discuss how we've reached the tipping point, it seems. Companies of all kinds -- some that you'd least expect -- are embracing sustainability and competing to set more aggressive goals. Capital is flooding into clean technology; Europe, and even China, is ratcheting up performance standards. How well is the marriage of business and sustainability really doing? The good news, the bad news and the critical success factors.
Please join us for this free public lecture on Wednesday, February 27th from 3:00-5:00, in the Kate Buchanan room at Humboldt State University. If you would like more information view the event poster.
Gil is also a speaker at our Fundraising social on February 28th at the Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center. For details about the event click here.
Thank you to the following sponsors of the 2008 Chung-Watson Lecture Series:
Arcata Economic Development Corp.
Bank of America
Blue Lake Casino
Lew Litzky
Northern California SBDC Network
Office of Economic & Community Development
Pacific Gas & Electric
Suzanne Simpson
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