“Right now, the system is skewed so that it favors big business at the expense of local business,” said Sandy Wiggins, the board chair of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, or BALLE. “We’ve got to fix that.”
Not surprisingly, most of the interchanges between ASBC members and White House officials were friendly. Talking about farm policy and organic agriculture, Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield said: “The Obama administration has been better on these issues than any in my lifetime.”
Hilda Solis, the Secretary of Labor, was greeted warmly by the group, and returned the favor. “I want to salute you,” she said. “You care about your employees. You care about your neighborhoods. You care about the quality of life in the communities where you do business.”
Occasionally, friction arose. When Richard Kaufman, a senior advisor to the Department of Energy, said cheap and abundant natural gas will be good for the economy, he got pushback. But, he said, companies that care about the environment should support exploration of natural gas which, for the most part, will replace coal as an electricity source.
“When fracking is done appropriately ... I think we are comfortable that this is a good thing for the United States,” Kaufman said. “We are not going to be able, in the short run, to produce the energy we need in the United States from renewable energy.”
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I was very happy to read
I was very happy to read about "A Business Call for a New Economy." What I am wondering about though is whether there is an equal or even stronger call for a "New Economics." In my view, it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to create a long-term sustainable, triple-bottom line type of New Economy unless we also create a "New Economics" that goes way beyond today's trivialized, separative, and very limiting neoclassical economics, i.e. a New Economics that I, for a lack of a better term, call "socioecolonomics." Whatever the term might be, I think it is important to cognitively frame it in a way that goes beyond today's mainstream term "economics" and how it is usually perceived.
At The Refinishing Touch, we
At The Refinishing Touch, we are excited to see such efforts in environmental stewardship reach the White House. While we agree with the ASBC’s views, we also commend The White House for the environmental efforts they have already taken, the ones that go on behind-the-scenes. As a company that specializes in large-scale sustainable refinishing projects and furniture asset management, The Refinishing Touch has provided several federal government agencies, including the White House, with eco-friendly services. We’ve refinished and reupholstered over 60 pieces of furniture from various offices throughout the White House during the building’s 200th anniversary, reducing the environmental waste caused by government facilities. And while we agree that environmental efforts aren’t perfect in any industry just yet, The Refinishing Touch applauds the government for making internal attempts, and for hearing the cries of the people who just wish for greater overall sustainability.
At The Refinishing Touch, we
At The Refinishing Touch, we are excited to see such efforts in environmental stewardship reach the White House. While we agree with the ASBC’s views, we also commend The White House for the environmental efforts they have already taken, the ones that go on behind-the-scenes. As a company that specializes in large-scale sustainable refinishing projects and furniture asset management, The Refinishing Touch has provided several federal government agencies, including the White House, with eco-friendly services. We’ve refinished and reupholstered over 60 pieces of furniture from various offices throughout the White House during the building’s 200th anniversary, reducing the environmental waste caused by government facilities. And while we agree that environmental efforts aren’t perfect in any industry just yet, The Refinishing Touch applauds the government for making internal attempts, and for hearing the cries of the people who just wish for greater overall sustainability.
Yep, it's been the normal
Yep, it's been the normal business model for decades now. Just look at the practices of U.S. Chamber members. You must not have read the article.
What a joke of a "conference"
What a joke of a "conference" - the (widely quoted in this article) American Income Life is a life insurance arm of the unions. Look at the web site link included in the article.
yet another group to suck the
yet another group to suck the teat of the government and bleed the taxpayers - maybe that's the normal business model these days