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SBN Upcoming Events

Boston Mayor Tom Menino hosts the official launch of the Sustainable Business Leader Program

On April 23 at Boston City Hall, Mayor Tom Menino hosted the official launch of the new Sustainable Business Leader Program (SBLP), a partnership between the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Boston (SBN) and the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). SBLP is funded in part by a $50,000, two-year grant from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

Shown posing with an enlargement of the $50,000 DEP check are, left to right: Galen Nelson of the BRA; Mayor Menino; Peggy Harlow of the DEP; SBN Board Member Susan Labandibar of Tech Networks of Boston; and SBLP Director Jennifer Boudrie.

“SBLP is leading the way to help small and mid-sized businesses to become more economically and environmentally sustainable,” Jennifer Boudrie says. “SBLP offers technical assistance to help businesses evaluate current practices in energy and water conservation, pollution prevention, transportation, waste reduction, and sustainability management. Based on recommendations, each business can adopt an action plan and have access to resources to become more sustainable. SBLP will monitor the implementation of the plan during the year and at the end of the program will prepare a report with best practices to help many more businesses."

The SBLP website is www.SustainableBusinessLeader.org.

SBLP is part of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Boston, a 501(c)3 organization, which is also the umbrella for “Local First” campaigns that support local businesses in our communities.

For more information, contact SBLP Coordinator Jennifer Boudrie at 617-271-1954 or Jen@SustainableBusinessLeader.org.

June 5-7

BALLE 6th Annual Conference

Grow Deep: Business Leaders Building Strong Communities

Thursday, June 5: 3:00-6:45 p.m.

Friday, June 6: 8:00 a.m.-9:45 p.m.

Saturday, June 7: 8:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.

Boston University

The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies invites you to this year's most powerful gathering of local business, government, and non-profit leaders working to build community wealth and well-being. The theme is "Grow Deep: Business Leaders Building Strong Economies." Transforming our economy to more localized production and distribution by green and locally owned, independent businesses is key to addressing the challenges of climate change, peak oil and resource depletion.

For more details, including key speakers, and to register: Click here

Welcome!

We've hired an executive director!

We are excited to have our first executive director: Steven Jones-D'Agostino. He's also the first coordinator of Worcester Local First and one of WLF's founding members. He brings more than 30 years of broadcast and print journalism plus marketing and communications experience to SBN and WLF, including 12 years as executive editor of Worcester Business Journal. He is also co-host of the weekly, one-hour The Energy Freedom Fighters radio show on WCRN/830 AM plus host of the weekly, 30-minute The Business Beat radio show on WICN/90.5 FM. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of Central Mass., chairs the Communications Committee of and moderates Community Forums for Common Pathways, Worcester's "healthy communities" initiative, and serves on the Message & Media Committee of the AltWheels Alternative Transportation & Energy Festival. You can reach him at 508-791-0459 or srdagostino@charter.net.

We've changed our name!

The Steering Committee of the Responsible Business Association of Greater Boston voted to change our name to the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Boston (SBN). This name-change has been in the works for over a year and reflects a change in the direction and emphasis of our work. We still promote responsible business practices, but in recent years our focus has shifted to promoting sustainable business practices and building a sustainable local economy. For SBN and our Board of Directors (formerly our Steering Committee), building a sustainable world is about saving our environment and working for economic justice. It's all related.

We invite you to join with us in changing how business is done and changing the world in the process. We have put together a series of excellent programs and events that we think you'll find helpful and inspirational. Check out our web site as we expand and enhance it to reflect our ever-expanding efforts to build a sustainable local economy.

Events Calendar

April 23

Boston Mayor Tom Menino hosts the official launch of the Sustainable Business Leader Program

Wednesday, April 23, 11 a.m.

Boston City Hall, 5th Floor, Eagle Room

Light refreshments will be served.

June 5-7

BALLE 6th Annual Conference

Grow Deep: Business Leaders Building Strong Communities

Thursday, June 5: 3:00-6:45 p.m.

Friday, June 6: 8:00 a.m.-9:45 p.m.

Saturday, June 7: 8:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.

Boston University

For more details, including key speakers, and to register: Click here

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