NBIS and APICS Puget Sound and present
Sustainability: Building on Quality and Lean Initiatives
May 16, 2012
5:30 PM
Coast Bellevue Hotel
625 116th Avenue NE, Bellevue, WA
NBIS and APICS Puget Sound are pleased to invite you to this dinner program focusing on sustainability management as a valuable extension of lean, quality & six-sigma practices.
Featured speaker, Tom Melcher, founder and president of dmStrategists based in Grand Rapids, MI will discuss how managers can leverage the needs, requirements and opportunities of sustainability while building on lean, quality & six-sigma practices. (more…)
Elliott Bay Brewing and Rhizome Design
When: May 24th
Time: 5:00 – 7:30 PM
Where: Elliott Bay Public House & Brewery
12537 Lake City Way NE
Seattle, WA 98125
Join us on May 24th and help celebrate the new Elliott Bay Public House & Brewery in Lake City. This family-friendly restaurant marks the third brewpub for owners Brent Norton and Todd Carden who will be on hand to talk about sustainability, organic-brewing and the importance of seeking out under served neighborhoods. See the new brewing facility as well.
Co-hosting the event will be Rhizome Design, a Seattle-based creative design and marketing firm with a mission to develop brand and marketing tools that help businesses grow and prosper. Rhizome has worked closely with Elliott Bay over the years to develop their branding from logos, menus, growlers, coasters and tap handles to all their signage. Meet Creative Director Jen Pennington, who is currently developing the Materials Innovation Exchange website from nuts to bolts for the By-Product Synergy NW program.
Come raise a glass of the finest handcrafted organic beer and help toast our generous beer and design sponsors. Parking located behind the building.
Tickets: Free for NBIS members, and $15 for non-members
Managing Metrics
Date: May 31, 2012
Time: 6:00 to 8:00 PM (PT)
Featured Speakers:
- Stephanie Ausen, PMI
- Alex Michalko, REI
- David Kemp, Brooks Sports
We are excited to feature these speakers and the outstanding work they are doing in establishing and using sustainability metrics to support their company’s commitments to customers, communities and stakeholders.
Each panelist will discuss the approach their company is taking to measuring, managing and reporting sustainability metrics, including: how they have set priorities for what to track and how these align with the company’s values, mission and business goals; what challenges and barriers have they encountered and how have these been overcome; how sustainability data is being used; what have been some of the outcomes and benefits of integrating sustainability metrics management into company operations.
Tickets $25.00, $17.00 for NBIS members
January 26th, 5-7:30 PM
UW Surplus Store
4515 25th Ave NE
More information: 206-408-7194
Join us for our first Eco-Hour of 2012 — a special event that features not only the fabulous UW Surplus Store, but also NBIS member companies and organizations involved with waste reduction, product stewardship, recycling and repurposing materials and goods.
Elliott Bay Brewing Company returns as our Eco-Hour beer sponsor, and we are also pleased to feature Salmon-Safe certified wine from Portteus Winery.
Event hosts include:
- UW Surplus Store: Great buys – amazing stuff — everything from athletic equipment and office furniture to techy equipment of all kinds and Husky regalia!
- Cedar Grove Composting: They take Puget Sound area food and ag waste and turn it into beautiful compost and (soon) renewable energy! They’re defining industry standards for compostable service-ware. Wow!
- The Re-Store: Who doesn’t love old doorknobs, retro fittings and great deals on doors, windows and other construction materials? They’re bringing down the house!
- Zero Waste Washington: Look out – They’ve read Cradle to Cradle and they mean business when they talk product stewardship!
- By-Product Synergy NW: By-Product Synergy NW is here to save the day – helping companies turn waste to resources, get paid for their materials and even start new enterprises using waste materials.
Enjoy the company of NBIS members and friends while meeting these innovative enterprises that are helping people steward and make better use of resources.
NBIS Eco-Hour is free for members; $15 all others.
If you have not received your discount code by email, contact us.
NBIS and Salmon Safe have been working together to engage businesses and large-scale urban landowners in addressing critical issues that impact our urban salmon runs in Puget Sound. The Salmon-Safe celebration held on February 24th, hosted by the University of Washington, Salmon-Safe and the Network for Business Innovation and Sustainability (NBIS) honored five outstanding urban properties in the Puget Sound region. About 100 attendees were there to enjoy the event with wonderful food from PCC and of course, salmon-safe wines provided by Terra Blanca. Even the awards were sustainable, with glass plaques made from recycled glass by Glassworks and metal awards made from recycled highway signs. The event recognized years of hard work these businesses put in to make their practices sustainable, and reduce the impacts of urbanization to support restored salmon runs in Puget Sound watersheds. (more…)
