Sunday, December 20, 2009

Green Business Conference Focuses on the Payoff

The Business of Green, a one-day UCLA Extension conference, focuses on beginning blooming practices in a array of industries -- and how environmentally acceptable practices can advice both the ambiance and the antithesis sheet. The appointment takes abode Friday, May 23, in Long Beach, Calif.

Los Angeles, CA -- Zero-waste manufacturing, agent carpooling programs, LEED-certified buildings, appointment recycling initiatives: what's the adjustment for businesses that accept these environmentally acceptable practices? In an accessible appointment presented by UCLA Extension, leaders in entertainment, hospitality, accomplishment and added industries arresting in greater Los Angeles will authenticate how they absorb blooming business practices with absolute affects on both the ambiance and the antithesis sheet.

The Business of Green: What's the Payoff? takes abode Friday, May 23, 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., at the Westin Hotel, 333 East Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90802. The acceptance fee is $375; $425 on the day of the event, amplitude permitting. On Thursday, May 22, appointment attendees may accompany the alternative bout of the anchorage of Long Beach for an added $30. The bout of the state-of-the-art, environmentally acceptable anchorage lasts from 10 a.m. to noon. Participants will apprentice what anchorage admiral accept done to acquire the anchorage the acumen of accepting one of the a lot of environmentally acceptable shipment accessories in the United States.

Southern California businesses are arch the way if it comes to developing environmentally acceptable articles and services The Business of Green appointment is our way of acquainted their achievements and allowance others apprentice how they can get involved. "Southern California businesses are arch the way if it comes to developing environmentally acceptable articles and services," says UCLA Extension Dean Cathy Sandeen. "The Business of Green appointment is our way of acquainted their achievements and allowance others apprentice how they can get involved."

Keynote apostle Gil Friend, admiral and CEO of Natural Logic, will present "Profit on Purpose", exploring a abolitionist old access to business action that re-envisions the risk/opportunity landscape, delivers absolute business amount and archive a advance for facing, arrive and profiting from the sustainability challenge.

Other highlights cover aperture animadversion from abecedarian and ecology activist Ed Begley Jr. Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster will bear a acceptable abode to the audience. In circumstantial sessions active throughout the day, participants will apprentice about amalgam ecology sustainability into banking statements, blooming business opportunities for baby companies and entrepreneurs, LEED-certified architecture practices, apple-pie and blooming manufacturing, blooming adventure basic and blooming business strategies.

Begley will abstinent the Green Giants of the Entertainment Industry console altercation in which admiral from Warner Brothers, Fox News Group and Reel Green Media will altercate the starring role that the ambiance is arena in an accretion amount of blur and television projects, on both abandon of the camera.

Insurance, addition industry with a able attendance in Southern California, is adverse accretion challenges from ecology disasters acquired by altitude change. In an allowance industry-focused console discussion, acknowledged experts and admiral from the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company and Lexington Insurance will altercate blooming business approaches to analytic the botheration of all-around altitude change.

Full data and acceptance advice for The Business of Green: What's The Payoff? are accessible at www.uclaextension.edu/green08 or by buzz at 310-206-1409.

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