September 2010

Sustainability is often defined as businesses and other activities that take into account people, planet, and profit. “Planet” clearly refers to environmental impacts, and “profit” means making money and being financially sustainable. But the “people” side is less well defined.

One of SJF Advisory Services’ goals is to help provide this definition.

At 7 AM this morning I came back from jogging and opened the paper. The top story in today's Raleigh News and Observer is on Durham-based Cree, local and global manufacturer of super efficient LED lighting.

Join us as we welcome Dr. Robert Wallace, President and CEO of BITHENERGY as the lunchtime keynote speaker on September 14 at the SJF Summit on the New Green Economy. Dr. Wallace is an accomplished entrepreneur who will share his lessons learned in the founding and operation of three companies, BITHENERGY, LLC, BITHGROUP Technologies, Inc. and Entreteach Learning Systems, LLC in the green economy.

When innovative developers and communities set green standards, it can be hard to find trade partners with green skills. This panel will discuss strategies and opportunities to engage existing contractors and builders in greening and providing green job training in any community.

Register Today for the SJF Summit on the New Green Economy: Accelerating Growth and Impact, September 14-15. This year's Summit will provide the platform for a diverse group of powerful players in the green economy to network, share information and learn new strategies to take and apply in their work and community.

I'm writing from the Green Jobs Policy Panel at the 2010 SJF Summit. The panelists spoke about community based policies that help to create green jobs as well as broad trends in green jobs policy.

I am writing from the Cleantech CEO panel at the SJF Summit on the New Green Economy.  Bruce Usher opened the panel, with a message that good intentions do not replace good economics.  In today's climate, this could not ring truer.

We are starting Day 2 of the SJF Summit.



Today features opening remarks by Henry McKoy, Assistant Secretary for Community Development at the State Department of Commerce,a plenary session on the People part of the triple bottom line, a series of breakout panels, and closing remarks by David Orr of the Oberlin Project.  Anne Claire Brougton just delivered a talk on her upcoming Employees Matter Report, which deeply studied 16 companies who have used employee engagement strategies to improve their performance.

I am writing from the SJF Summit at a panel on carbon policy.  This post is a summary of the state of carbon policy in America as articulated by Tim Profeta, Professor at the Nicholas School for the Environment.