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Date: May 20, 2013
Time: 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Location: Bertha Knight Landes Room, Seattle City Hall, 600 Fourth Avenue

MEET: Pacific Northwest clean tech and biotech companies,  projects, and inventors whose products and services are designed to address  global sustainability issues, including economic development, resource scarcity  and health challenges in developing countries.

LEARN: The symposium brings together promising technology companies, emerging market  specialists, and impact investment companies to discuss issues and new  models for bringing appropriate technologies to developing markets.

CONNECT: with ideas, opportunities, experts and a  community of people who are passionate about creating solutions and supporting  thriving communities and eco-systems around the world.

PROGRAM:

> Showcase with networking & reception

> Symposium: Business strategies, market intelligence, and funding necessary for mid to long-term execution, scaling and bringing products to global markets

> Company dialogue: featuring Cascade Designs (case illustration); Burn Design Lab, Forward Mobility, MobiSante, NWwindpower,  PotaVida, Pterofin, PowerSails, Strategic Executables, and More!

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Business has a demonstrated power to deliver results. However, too often these results are biased toward the benefit of shareholders and at odds with what makes our society a better place. A new type of corporation with a formalized purpose that includes generating positive impact for society in its core was needed.

Launching a new era of sustainable business, certified B Corporations and legal entities such as Benefit Corporations and Social Purpose Corporations combine business success with social and environmental responsibility and public accountability. As their number, diversity and impact increase, these companies are demonstrating the creativity and innovation that sustainable businesses can bring to our economy. (more…)

March 3, 2011–Today the Network for Business Innovation and Sustainability found out it is a 2011 Communitas Awards winner. Communitas Awards recognize exceptional businesses, organizations and individuals for excellence in community service and corporate social responsibility. NBIS was recognized in the category of “Sustainability.”

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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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