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Announcing
"Learning Sustainability - Achieving Environmental, Economic, and Social Well Being"
A regional forum to be held at the Buffalo Convention Center, October 10-13 2001
For Immediate Release


July 3, 2001

Contact: Jay Burney
email: lscampaign@aol.com
website: http://www.sustain.buffalo.edu/

The University at Buffalo's Environment and Society Institute and Buffalo's Green Gold Development Corporation are proud to announce "Learning Sustainability- Achieving Environmental, Economic, and Social Well Being ", to be held at the Buffalo Convention Center on October 10-12, 2001.

According to Conference Director Jay Burney, the event is designed to launch a wide regional discussion about the global and local issues of sustainability, as they affect our region in the areas of economics, environment, and social choice. Mr. Burney said "We need to adjust our course for the future to insure that we will continue to have a quality of life that will benefit future generations, and this is a great opportunity for all of us to get started!"

Keynote speaker for the Event will be Dr. Jane Goodall, one of the world's most famous people. An author and lecturer, she is a life long conservationist and primatologist known for her close association with famed paleontologist Dr. Louis Leakey and scientific breakthroughs in Tanzania's Gombe preserve. Her research and writing have made, and are making, revolutionary inroads into scientific thinking regarding the evolution of humans. Dr. Goodall will be in Buffalo as part of the University at Buffalo's "Distinguished Speaker Series."

Other confirmed speakers include Dr. David Suzuki, author of numerous books on nature and science, and host and producer of television programs including "The Nature of Things" and "The Sacred Balance" which is currently in production in conjunction with PBS, and which will premier on Canada's CBC TV in the Fall of 2002.

Dr. Paul Hawken, business leader, environmentalist, and author, known as one of the leading architects and proponents of corporate reform with respect to ecological practices. He has written such best-selling books as "The Ecology of Commerce", "Growing a Business" and "Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution." He helped found The Natural Step in the United States and internationally, and advises many major companies on sustainability issues.

Dr. Sylvia Earle, author of the book "Sea Change" and described by conference organizers as the Rachel Carson of the 21st Century. Dr. Earle is the former chief scientist of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association, and she is currently director of Deep Ocean Engineering, a company she founded in 1981, which builds deep ocean submersibles.

Running concurrently with the Learn Sustainability Forum and at the Convention Center, is the Green Gold 2001 Exposition, which will include exhibits from local and national companies that promote sustainable business practices. The Conference and Exposition are designed to help to celebrate the Pan American Centennial by exhibiting and promoting sustainable, cutting edge, future oriented technologies and businesses and ideas. Conference planners see a strong link between the celebration of the anniversary of the Pan-American Exposition and a unique opportunity to reflect upon how the future and progress of civilization was envisioned and showcased a century ago, with how it is envisioned now.

Other presentations and workshops at the three-day event will include "Thinking Like a Region in a Globalized World" and "Creating a Shared Vision for a Sustainable Region."

Learn Sustainability Website: http://www.sustain.buffalo.edu/index.html

University at Buffalo's Environment and Society Institute: http://wings.buffalo.edu/esi/

Green Gold Development Corporation: http://www.ci.buffalo.ny.us/Gg1/greengold.htm

Pan American Exposition: http://panam2001.buffalo.edu/site/index.html


Ecology conference will feature Jane Goodall
By LISA HAARLANDER
News Staff Reporter
7/7/01
From the Buffalo News

Buffalo will host a conference on ecological sustainability featuring keynote speaker Jane Goodall, the renowned authority on chimpanzees. The University at Buffalo's Environment and Society Institute and Buffalo's Green Gold Development Corp. have announced the conference will be held Oct. 10 through 12 in the Buffalo Convention Center.

The event is designed to launch a regional discussion about the global and local issues of sustainability as they affect the Buffalo Niagara region, said conference director Jay Burney, who is the executive director of the Buffalo Institute of Urban Ecology, a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization.

Keynote speaker Goodall is an author, lecturer and lifelong conservationist and primatologist known for her close association with famed paleontologist Louis Leakey and scientific breakthroughs in Tanzania's Gombe preserve.

Goodall will be in Buffalo as part of the University at Buffalo's Distinguished Speaker Series.

    Other confirmed speakers include:
  • David Suzuki, author of numerous books on nature and science and host and producer of television programs including "The Nature of Things."

  • Paul Hawken, business leader, environmentalist and author, known as one of the leading architects and proponents of corporate reform with respect to ecological practices.

    He helped found the Natural Step in the United States and internationally, and advises many major companies on sustainability issues.

  • Sylvia Earle, author of the book "Sea Change" and former chief scientist of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. She currently is director of Deep Ocean Engineering, a company she founded in 1981, which builds deep-ocean submersibles.
The Green Gold 2001 Exposition will be held the same time as the conference.

It will include exhibits from local and national companies that promote sustainable business practices.

The conference and exposition are designed to celebrate the Pan-American Exposition centennial by exhibiting and promoting sustainable, cutting-edge, future-oriented technologies.



BUFFALO'S GREEN GOLD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, INC.
P.O. Box 865
Buffalo, New York 14201

ANNOUNCING
  Green Gold's 2001 Exposition
  In celebration of the anniversary of the Pan-American Exposition of 1901
  Buffalo Convention Center, October 11-12, 2001

  Held in conjunction with

  Learning Sustainability: Achieving Environmental, Social & Economic Well-Being
  A regional community forum
  October 10-13, 2001

For immediate release
Wednesday, July 25, 2001
Contact: Randi Mail
Phone: 851.5779
Email: rmail@ch.ci.buffalo.ny.us
www.sustain.buffalo.edu

Buffalo's Green Gold Development Corporation is proud to announce its first business Exposition to be held at the Buffalo Convention Center on October 11-12, 2001. Green Gold's 2001 Exposition is the 21st century equivalent of the Pan-American Exposition of 1901. It will present environmental technology as a defining theme for the region's future. The Exposition will showcase a tangible framework for a sustainable society and launch new initiatives and innovation, just as the Pan-American Exposition of 1901 did.

Green Gold is a non-profit organization created in 1998 as an initiative of Buffalo Common Council President James Pitts, to assist and attract businesses that solve environmental problems with their products or services to the Buffalo area.

The Exposition will showcase WNY's leading environmental technology firms along with industry leaders that have implemented sustainable business practices and continue to enhance corporate accountability in terms of environmental and social responsibility. National and local non-profit organizations will also exhibit to demonstrate the wealth of educational resources on sustainability.

According to Exposition Director, Randi Mail, "Green Gold's Expo is an incredible opportunity for WNY to realize one of its greatest assets - an industry sector focused on environmentally responsive technology. Buffalo is very unique to have Green Gold put forth a progressive economic development strategy that values our communities and our environment."

Goals of the expo include:
1. Promote and strengthen the environmental business cluster in the WNY region.
2. Showcase thriving corporate models of environmental stewardship & sustainability policy.
3. Demonstrate to youth and the general public that there is an environmental job market.
4. Raise awareness of the "Next Industrial Revolution" where businesses redefine themselves in terms of ecological compatibility.

Paul Hawken, business leader, environmentalist, and author of the best-selling books Growing a Business, The Next Economy, Ecology of Commerce and Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution will deliver the luncheon address on Friday, October 12th. Known as one of the leading architects and proponents of corporate reform with respect to ecological practices, Mr. Hawken has a long list of accomplishments. He has served on the board of many environmental organizations, helped found The Natural Step in the United States and internationally, and advises major companies and governments in sustainability.

A Sustainable Business Challenge will be featured at the Expo. The Challenge will encourage local companies to improve the way they do business, by adopting and putting into practice the idea of a "triple bottom-line". This concept reflects a business strategy that includes environmental protection and social equity.

Green Gold's 2001 Exposition will be held in conjunction with the Learning Sustainability Forum presented by the Environment & Society Institute at UB and Buffalo's Green Gold Development Corporation.

To further equip business, community and educational leaders with the tools to practice sustainability, the Rocky Mountain Institute will deliver a seminar on Natural Capitalism for business leaders. RMI is an entrepreneurial, nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of resources to create a more secure, prosperous, and life-sustaining world. Natural Capitalism is a new and rapidly spreading business model that harnesses environmental performance as an engine of competitive advantage.

The event will celebrate the anniversary of the Pan-American Exposition of 1901 as Green Gold provides a glimpse of what technology of the 21st century will bring.



BUFFALO'S GREEN GOLD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, INC.
P.O. Box 865
Buffalo, New York 14201

AUTHOR, BUSINESS LEADER AND VISIONARY
PAUL HAWKEN COMING TO BUFFALO


For Immediate Release
Thursday, August 8, 2001
Contact: Randi Mail, 716.851.5779
Email: rmail@ch.ci.buffalo.ny.us
www.sustain.buffalo.edu

Paul Hawken will be a featured keynote speaker as part of the Learning Sustainability forum being planned by Buffalo's Green Gold Development Corporation and the Environment & Society Institute of the University at Buffalo for October 10-13, 2001. Hawken is known as one of the leading architects and proponents of corporate reform with respect to ecological practices. His writings and work have caused CEOs to transform their internal corporate culture and business philosophy towards environmental restoration.

Hawken will deliver a luncheon address on Friday, October 12, 2001 at the Buffalo Convention Center.

Buffalo's Green Gold Development Corporation decided to bring in Hawken to inspire the Western New York community with the message that economic prosperity and environmental preservation can be mutually achieved. Hawken maintains that, "Perhaps during the many battles between environmentalists and businesspeople we have been asking the wrong question all these years. As generally proposed, the question is "How do we save the environment?" As ridiculous as it may sound to both sides, the question may be "How do we save business?""

Paul Hawken founded several companies including Smith & Hawken, the retail and catalog company and Datafusion, a knowledge synthesis software company. He written several bestselling books from his entrepreneurial experience including Growing a Business , which explored the challenges and pitfalls of starting and operating socially responsive companies; Ecology of Commerce, a classic text on business and environment; and Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution written with Amory & Hunter Lovins, founders of the Rocky Mountain Institute, which explores the activities of innovative companies creating opportunity and competitive advantage by heeding the call for environmental restoration.

Randi Mail, Green Gold's Project Coordinator is leading a reading group this summer, now in the middle of Ecology of Commerce. "We have brought together an incredible group of people from the public and private sector to grapple with the idea that the conventional business model must be replaced with a new paradigm that emphasizes quality not quantity."

Among his many honors are the Small Business Administration's Entrepreneur of the Year (1990), the Council on Economic Priorities' Environmental Stewardship Award (1991), and the Green Cross Millennium Award for International Environmental Leadership (1999). In 1995, the was named by Utne Reader one of "100 Visionaries Who Could Change Our Lives."

Learn Sustainability Website: http://www.sustain.buffalo.edu
Pan American Exposition: http://panam2001.buffalo.edu/site/index.html