Sustainability Summit features Joel Makower, GreenBiz.com creator Wednesday
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Lipscomb University’s Institute for Sustainable Practice hosts its 2016 Sustainability Summit, presented by Nissan, on its campus Wednesday, April 13.
The summit, which will explore the theme “Discovering the Future of Environmental Professions,” features Joel Makower, chairman and executive editor of GreenBiz Group Inc. and creator of GreenBiz.com. The summit begins at 11:30 a.m. and features Makower as the luncheon keynote speaker, breakout panel discussion sessions and networking opportunities. Breakout sessions will examine a variety of career-paths including those that are technical and specialty, faith-based, green business, resource, advocacy, academic and professional.
Registration for the summit is $125 and includes lunch and a networking reception. A reserved luncheon table and registration for 10 is $750, and student tickets are $30 with a valid ID and includes lunch, keynote speaker and panel sessions. Guests may register at lipscomb.edu/sustainability/future-of-environmental-professions.
The summit ends with an evening keynote address by former Congressman Bob Inglis (R-SC), the 2015 John F. Kennedy “Profiles in Courage” award winner and executive director of republicEn.org at George Mason University, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. The evening keynote session is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. All events take place in the Ezell Center located on the Lipscomb University campus.
For more than 25 years, Makower has been considered a well-respected voice on business, sustainability and innovation. As an award-winning writer, speaker and strategist on corporate sustainability practices and clean technology, he has helped both large and small companies align environmental responsibility with business success. He hosts the annual GreenBiz and VERGE conferences around the world and is principal author of the annual State of Green Business report.
Makower is a senior fellow at the Strategic Innovation Lab at Case Western Reserve University, a think tank focused on developing, testing and implementing a new grand strategy for the United States that can power a new era of prosperity, security and sustainability. Along with the lab’s co-founders, Mark Mykleby and Patrick Doherty, Joel is co-author of The New Grand Strategy: Restoring America’s Prosperity, Security and Sustainability in the 21st Century, a book set for release in June 2016, about a business plan for America, born at the Pentagon, that embeds sustainability as a strategic national imperative.
A former nationally syndicated columnist, Makower is author or co-author of more than a dozen other books, including Strategies for the Green Economy. Previous books include Beyond the Bottom Line: Putting Social Responsibility to Work for Your Business and the World, about the profit and potential of socially responsible business practices; The E-Factor: The Bottom-Line Approach to Environmentally Responsible Business, on how companies are responding to environmental challenges in positive and profitable ways; and The Green Consumer, a best-selling guide to the environmental marketplace.
Inglis was the U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 4th congressional district from 1993 to 1999 and again from 2005 to 2011. In 2012, Inglis launched the Energy and Enterprise Initiative, a nationwide public engagement campaign promoting conservative and free enterprise solutions to energy and climate challenges. E&EI is based out of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and works to build support for energy policies that are true to conservative principles of limited government, accountability, reasonable risk-avoidance and free enterprise.
The 2016 Sustainability Summit is hosted by the Lipscomb University Institute of Sustainable Practice, housed in the College of Leadership & Public Service, as part of its State of Sustainability Series and co-hosted by the Tennessee Association of Environmental Professionals, the Alliance of Hazardous Materials Professionals, the Mid South Chapter of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals and the Tennessee Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council. It is presented by Nissan and Nashville’s Hutton Hotel is also a partner for the event.
Lipscomb University’s Institute for Sustainable Practice
A part of Lipscomb University’s College of Leadership & Public Service, the Institute for Sustainable Practice was founded in 2007 as a response to the new pollution, rising gas prices and extreme weather. Since that time, the institute has invited pioneering entrepreneurs, innovative scientists, creative engineers, visionary policy makers and other sustainability leaders to share proven insights, best practices and research with students and the community. Lipscomb’s Institute for Sustainable practice offers an innovative curriculum at the intersections between business and the natural and social sciences that leads to an undergraduate degree in environmental and sustainability science, a Master of Science degree in sustainability or a dual Master of Business Administration/Master of Science in Sustainability degree. Students benefit from close relationships with our top-tier practitioner faculty and gain practical experiences with cutting edge best practices through dynamic classes and field studies. For more information about Lipscomb University’s Institute for Sustainable Practice, visit www.lipscomb.edu/sustainability.