Upcoming Healthy Economy and Environment Conference

kristyCommunity Development Solutions

MEDIA ADVISORY

HEALTHY ECONOMY & ENVIRONMENT CONFERENCE LOOKS TO BUILD SUSTAINABLE NEW YORK STATE

Event Features NYS Environmental Excellence Awards, Keynote By Remains Lighting Founder David Calligeros, NYS Businesses and More

Ethical Markets Media is glad to be a media partner with the Healthy Economy and Environment Conference. Ethical Markets’ Advisory Board Member David Levine of ASBC (the American Sustainable Business Council) will be presenting during the opening plenary.

Everyone is talking about how can to create a robust economy filled with healthy jobs that can thrive in the face of global economic challenges. This conference focuses on New York’s efforts to use innovation and investment in less-toxic technologies and products to support businesses. The upcoming Healthy Economy and Environment Conference will share strategies, highlight successes, identify tools, and explore actions that will foster stable, robust businesses producing safe, healthy products and services for a global market.

Where: Legislative Office Building, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY (Registration in the Well; must enter through Concourse.)

When: 9 am – 5 pm Tuesday, December 6th & 7th.

Opening Plenary: 9:15 Dec 6th.

Environmental Excellence Awards: 12:30 Dec. 6th.

Keynote address by David Calligeros, Remains Lighting: 11:30 am Dec. 7th

The conference will feature:

· Keynote address by David Calligeros, Founder of Remains Lighting in Brooklyn, NY.

· Case studies from New York State businesses.

· NYS Environmental Excellence Awards Presentation.

· Panel workshops including: The Power of Green Purchasing, Public Policy as an Innovation Driver, and Leading with Safer Materials and Avoiding “Regrettable Substitutions.”

· In-depth discussions about what New York needs in order to move forward.

For More Information, Contact: Bobbi Chase Wilding, Clean and Healthy New York, 518-708-3875, [email protected]

Media passes are available.

Sponsored by NYS Environmental Conservation Committee Chairs Senator Mark Grisanti and Assemblyman Robert Sweeney, the NYS Pollution Prevention Institute, The Wercs, WeRecycle, Clean & Healthy New York, the American Sustainable Business Council, Dormitory Authority of NYS, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, RCR&R, Sustainability at Ithaca College, the JustGreen Partnership, and Ethical Markets.