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Contacts: Mary Rose, NBIS 425-828-0982
Good News for Salmon—Good News for NBIS
(Seattle – August 31, 2009) -NBIS has been awarded a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant to support urban Salmon-Safe certification activities in the Lake Washington watershed region.
Salmon-Safe certifies urban landowners for best practices in stormwater and landscape management.
The NBIS Urban Initiative offers landowners assistance in developing cost-saving water and landscape management practices and provides public recognition through events and media campaign activities.
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The Core of Profitable Sustainability: The Future of Business Conference
By Karl Ostrom and Mary Rose, NBIS/Future 500
The key to successful business strategy includes answering the challenge to extend corporate citizenship beyond charitable giving, and to embody concern for public good within the design of products and services – “Doing well by doing good.” This new standard is, in part, a matter of self-enlightenment – we all need clean water, air, and the security of a global society that is not divided into “haves and have-nots.” But this elevated concept of corporate citizenship is also becoming a business requirement for success in the marketplace.
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Contacts: David Quigg, Director of Marketing, Grays Harbor Paper
360-538-5664 Office, 702-525-3367 Cell
Mary Rose, NBIS 425-828-0982; Other Contacts Below
New Law Makes State’s Paper Usage Leaner, Greener—Supports Local Paper Industry and Green Collar Jobs
(Olympia, WA – May 6, 2009) – Under a new law signed today by Gov. Chris Gregoire, Washington state agencies and college campuses will be greener and leaner than ever in using paper products – further advancing state recycling and sustainability goals dating to the late 1990s.
At the same time, the new law creates a strong market incentive for paper mills to invest in technology and process innovations that will create blue-collar jobs in one of Washington’s oldest industries – paper making.
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Contacts: Mary Rose, NBIS 425-828-0982
SUSTAINABILITY TAKES ON A PROFITABLE NEW LOOK AND FEEL
Newly redesigned NBIS website is a catalyst for promoting profitable, eco-friendly business strategies
(Seattle – March 17, 2009) – Kirkland, WA. – The Network for Business Innovation and Sustainability (NBIS) today formally launched their redesigned web site (www.nbis.org). The site enhances the organization’s ability to share best practices on developing profitable, environmentally-friendly businesses and support its growing community of member companies.
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Contacts: Dan Kent, Salmon-Safe 503.232.3750; 503.473.3665 cell
Mary Rose, NBIS 425-828-0982; Other Contacts & Visuals Below
Salmon-Safe Puget Sound starts with Parks, Campuses
New certifications mark expansion of eco-label from farms to city;
landowners taking greater steps for salmon restoration
(Seattle – March 6, 2008) – Salmon-Safe and its Seattle-based outreach partner The Network for Business Innovation and Sustainability (NBIS) announced today that the Washington State Department of Ecology headquarters campus, Port of Seattle Parks, and the co-located campus of University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia Community College have become the first urban Washington sites to achieve Salmon-Safe certification. The certifications mark the expansion of Salmon-Safe in Washington from farms to the city and offer landowners new tools to improve salmon habitat that go above and beyond regulations.
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