In this session from the Corporate Ecoforum, GreenBiz.com executive editor Joel Makower hosts a panel exploring the question of "how do companies operate in a world in which energy, water, materials, toxicity, carbon intensity, become barriers to growth?"
Joel is joined on stage by Ray Lane, a managing partner at venture capital giant Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Mindy Lubber, the president of Ceres; and David P. Steiner, CEO of Waste Management.
The Corporate Eco Forum is an invitation-only annual gathering of senior executives from Global 500 corporations. This unique forum is designed to produce actionable insights based on "real-world" successes that will deliver ROI today and in the future.
Held at The Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco on September 8-9, 2008, the Annual Meeting combined on-the-record CEO plenary panels with smaller, not-for-attribution, interactive peer-to-peer sessions. CEF members will work together to drive collective understanding of best practices, operationalize eco strategies and tools, and stimulate innovation.
In 2006 I started building the PlanetThoughts.org Web site to raise awareness of environmental issues, but I have been in the software field since 1978, working primarily on healthcare-related and not-for-profit organizations, but also for some general commercial companies. I have also long been a supporter of environmental causes.
I am an enthusiastic Tai Chi Chuan practitioner and teacher. This helps balance my brain after sitting at a screen for hours at a time, and lends some balance to life.
In early 2006 global warming and other environmental and energy challenges, as well as escalating wars in numerous locations, became central to my understanding of issues that our whole planet faces, and I wanted to do something with my skills to spread awareness and understanding of environment and energy issues, as well as discuss better philosophies of living, for greater satisfaction beyond consumerism.
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