SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS TASK FORCE MEETING

Date: Thursday, February 5, 2004

Time: 8:00am Registration

8:30am Program

10:30am Adjourn

Place: Paul Hastings Janofsky Walker, Rm 702

Address: 75 East 55th Street New York, NY

MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of the EBA/NYS Sustainable Business Task is to establish a forum to promote a statewide movement towards sustainability in all business sectors. The task force believes that business practices must balance economic growth, social responsibility and effective use of natural resources to insure the viability of New York State for current and future generations.

DRAFT AGENDA

· Registration and Networking

· Welcome & Introductions

· Presentation: Albert F. Appleton will discuss the process of transforming sustainability from feel-good rhetoric that dresses up a standard green agenda into an economic test for public and private investment that crosses all concerns, not just traditional environmental ones. 

· Update on Sustainable Standards Training

· Update on Members Directory

· Development of Speakers Program

· Proposals for Member Initiatives

· Other business

Attendees will discuss activities and projects that the Task Force could undertake to promote sustainable activities of direct value to businesses. Join us and participate in the work of this energetic new EBA/NYS Task Force.

Very truly yours,

Ira S. Rubenstein, Executive Director, EBA/NYS

Robert Politzer, Chair, Sustainable Business Task Force

Michael Sanfilippo, Coordinator, Sustainable Business Task Force

Please RSVP by fax to (518) 432-1383 or email to "info@eba-nys.org" no later than February 3, 2004. If you have questions, please call us at (518) 432-6400.

Registration for Sustainable Business Task Force meeting, February 5, 2004:

Registration Fee of $25 for EBA/NYS members and $50 for non-EBA/NYS members (Cash or check made out to "EBA/NYS" will be collected at the door) or you may pay in advance by credit card. No-shows will be invoiced. If you register and do not cancel we will invoice you.

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Guest Speaker's Bio:

Albert F. Appleton

Albert F. Appleton is currently a Senior Fellow at the Regional Plan Association (RPA) in New York City, America’s oldest non-profit regional planning and public policy group, where he is currently directing RPA’s development of an action plan for a sustainable New York Metropolitan Region. Mr. Appleton is also a Visiting Fellow at the new City University Of New York Institute on Urban Systems (CIUS) where he is organizing a new program on Water, the Environment and Regions. His work concentrates on developing and obtaining the implementation of public policies that innovatively integrate infrastructure and environmental investment in mutually supportive ways. He is currently advising the Shanghai water and sewer system on developing a business plan for financing advanced systems of water and sewer infrastructure.

Prior to joining RPA, Mr. Appleton served as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection and Director of the New York City Water and Sewer system. During his tenure, Mr. Appleton established New York City’s watershed protection program, which saved New York City ratepayers billions of dollars through investment in environmental landscape management and pollution prevention that eliminated the need to build enormous filtration facilities to purify New York’s drinking water. Mr. Appleton also carried out many other environmental and management innovations including the creation and implementation of a comprehensive water conservation program for New York City that reduced New York City water use by 20% and eliminated the need to build a new multi-billion dollar City waterworks on the Hudson River, the Staten Island Bluebelt, a model of natural infrastructure, and the Jamaica Bay and Harbor Herons urban nature refuge systems, while his management and fiscal reforms ended a decade of spiraling water and sewer rates.

Mr. Appleton has served as a volunteer officer or director of many conservation organizations, most notably as President of the New York City Audubon Society and as a member of the National Advisory Board of Trust for Public Land. He is also a former member of the National Academy of Sciences National Research Commission's Committee on Better Management of the World's Rapidly Growing Cities. Mr. Appleton is a graduate of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, with a double major in Mathematics and Political Science, and of Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut.