Sustainable Business Academy March 21

[Philip Vergragt]

To the Boston-area and new England SCORAI participants.

To WoHEC participants.

To Tellus colleagues,

Dear all,

I'm writing to invite you to attend the next meeting of the 

Sustainable Business Academy 

on Friday March 21st at Noon EST.

 

This event will feature Dan Rosenberg, co-founder of Real Pickles, who will tell their story of raising local investment capital through a direct public offering.  Not only did this local food venture use local investment channels to raise funds, they used this capital to finance a conversion to a worker owned cooperative.

 

Dan will be followed by an academic thinker (TBA) who will look at local investing, community capital and cooperative ownership through a macro lens and share thoughts on where local investing and local businesses are going and what this means for the New Economy.

 

A discussion period will follow the session and lunch will be provided.

 

There are limited spaces available for this event and our thanks go out to the Tellus Institute for sponsoring the space and our meal.

Registration is now open and is on a first come, first served basis.  Click here to sign up.  Note: due to limited capacity and high demand for these events, please register only if you are sure you will be able to attend.

 

Please feel free to circulate this invitation to your networks.  For more information on the Sustainable Business Academy, see the information below.

 

Regards,

Philip Vergragt (on behalf of the SBA team)

 

More about the Sustainable Business Academy

The Sustainable Business Academy aims at bridging a gap between three groups: Businesses, Academics, and Social Innovators from non-profits, government etc.  This gap appears as different languages, different styles of communication, and different outcomes that each group is aiming for with regard to the ‘New Economy.’

The SBA aspires to:

•             1)      Share knowledge and best practices across these sectors

•             2)      Draw attention to work being done in terms of education and research, and

•             3)      Gain resources – for funding research, starting ventures, and supporting non-profits.

 

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Philip J. Vergragt Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Technology Assessment

Research Professor, George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University Worcester MA USA

Fellow, Tellus Institute, 11 Arlington Street, Boston MA 02116-3411 USA

Tel +1-617-266-5400/ Fax 8303; email pver...@tellus.org ; www.tellus.org 

Subject Editor, Journal of Cleaner Production http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-cleaner-production

Member of SCORAI Exec. Committee www.scorai.org  (Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative)

Coordinator of Global Research Forum on Sustainable Production and Consumption GRF-SPaC http://grf-spc.weebly.com/

Co-Chair of GRF-SPaC Fudan 2014 Conference, https://www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=2724&nid=16317