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Autodesk
Autodesk is a world leader in design innovation technologies. Autodesk software helps architects, designers, and engineers experience their design ideas before they are real by enabling them to create digital models and workflows that help them to visualize, simulate, and analyze their projects. These capabilities enable them to explore many design alternatives easily, and make early improvements to the way their projects will look, perform, and be used by customers.
Autodesk tools help architects, designers, and engineers understand the environmental impacts of their designs, early in the design process. Whether designing a building, highway, car, utility network, or consumer product, Autodesk tools enable customers to make smarter, more sustainable design decisions to address global sustainability challenges.
Visit www.autodesk.com/green for more info.
HP
For decades HP has been an environmental leader, driving company stewardship through its HP Eco Solutions program, which spans product design, reuse and recycling as well as energy and resource efficiency. HP influences industry action by setting high environmental standards in its operations and supply chain, by providing practical solutions to make it easier for customers to reduce their climate impact and through its research on sustainability solutions that support a low-carbon economy. More information is available at www.hp.com/ecosolutions.
HP, the world’s largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.
Waste Management: Green Squad
Waste Management launched Green Squad to meet the growing needs and demands of our customers, as well as to further our own far-reaching sustainability efforts.
Today, Green Squad helps companies of all sizes establish a solid foundation to begin integrating sustainability into the DNA of their business. We offer proven methods, technologies, and tools to help companies accelerate the process of developing sustainability strategies that deliver both environmental and business value.
A sustainability program is only viable when it is economically sound, which makes working with Green Squad a perfect fit. Together, we will design and implement environmental solutions that deliver tangible cost savings throughout your business.
Green Squad is part of a Fortune 200 company with hundreds of experienced environmental professionals and years of experience with designing and managing comprehensive resource management programs. As a result, we offer our clients a broad range of sustainability solutions to help them create efficiencies, reduce costs, and enhance their brands. To date, our customers have saved more than $60 million while facilitating positive changes to the environment.
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Steelcase
We aspire to help people love how they work, by helping them create high performance, hard working workplaces. Anywhere in the world.
We offer the broadest range of services and products that cross the key elements of a workplace — furniture, interior architecture and technology solutions — to help our customers create workplaces that build their business, reflect their brand and support their culture.
We’re different from everyone in our industry, in that we offer products and services founded in a research methodology that focuses on the user, and how they really work.
We are as committed to maintaining our leadership role in terms of sustainable responsibility, as we are to the customers and designers that we serve.
Our job is to make your job easier. Our passion is helping you Love How You Work®.
UL Environment (ULE)
UL Environment (ULE) launched in early 2009 to provide environmental assessment, validation and certification services to companies and product manufacturers who need independent third-party validation of green claims and alignment with sustainability standards. ULE is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Underwriters Laboratories, the global leader in product safety. ULE brings UL's 115-year tenure as a leader in standards, testing and certification services to the environmental sustainability marketplace. ULE is initially offering two services to product manufacturers. The first service is called the Environmental Claims ValidationTM (ECV) program. The ECV program will assist manufacturers and consumers alike in sorting through green claims commonly found on today's products which will help to end confusion in the marketplace and reassure consumers that their purchases will help to protect the environment. ULE will also offer a Sustainable Products CertificationTM (SPC) program which will certify products to industry standards like BIFMA E3, NSF 140, ASTM EPP, IEEE 1680 as well as ULE standards currently being developed. Other environmental services and programs, including but not limited to training and advisory services, will also be available to companies and product manufacturers in 2009.
Sustainable Minds
Sustainable Minds is a green product design software and information company. SustainableMinds.comTM offers enterprise analytics in an on-demand software and information platform that standardizes how companies credibly estimate, evaluate and track their products' lifecycle environmental performance.
At the core is design decision support software that enables life cycle assessment and rapid iteration of product concepts in the earliest stages of design.
SustainableMinds.com integrates the science of OkalaTM with powerful Web 2.0 capabilities to develop the skills and knowledge of design teams to grow new revenue and markets through greener product innovation.
EcoSecurities
EcoSecurities has spent the last 11 years focusing on climate change mitigation activities and is now one of the world’s leading organizations in the business of sourcing, developing and trading carbon offsets. EcoSecurities’ carbon offset portfolio is one of the largest in the industry covering a wide range of offset standards (Gold Standard, Clean Development Mechanism, the Voluntary Carbon Standard and the California Climate Action Registry etc), technology types and geographical locations. In addition, EcoSecurities provides clients with carbon management services, helping them to understand and deal with an increasingly carbon constrained world.
Clear Standards
Clear Standards provides enterprise ?Sustainability 2.0? software to help organizations accurately measure, mitigate, and monetize carbon emissions and other environmental impacts. Clear Standards enables businesses to identify opportunities for cost savings from energy and waste reduction, and optimize investment across a portfolio of energy efficiency projects. By following Clear Standards' embedded best practices, corporations can prepare for regulatory changes, reduce costs, and reinforce positive brand image by providing credible transparency into sustainability initiatives. The solution is delivered via a secure, scalable, 100% web-based platform, with a rich graphical interface that provides an engaging user-experience. There is no software to install or maintain, which minimizes cost and implementation timeframes. Included with the subscription are instant updates to product functions and reference data such as emission factors, reduction project models, and guidance for conformance to environmental standards. For more information, please visit www.clearstandards.com.
MBDC
MBDC (McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry) is a consultancy founded in 1995 by world-renowned architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart to integrate Cradle to CradleSM design into products, processes and organizations to eliminate the concept of waste and provide environmental, societal and financial benefits. The consultancy has two primary service offerings. Cradle to Cradle Certification is an eco-label for products that allows a company to tangibly, credibly demonstrate its efforts in eco-intelligent design. Cradle to Cradle Consulting includes various activities to help clients integrate the larger design framework and optimize product life cycles, organizational operations and decision-making. MBDC works with innovative clients within various sectors and industries, to expand their definition and achievement of quality, spur creativity, differentiate their brands and recognize their market leadership, attract and retain customers, enhance competitive advantage, and reduce long-term risks. Please contact MBDC about applying this design vision and tools to orient your sustainability objectives and initiatives. Cradle to CradleSM is a service mark of MBDC.
GreenerPackage
A new Web resource featuring information and expertise to promote packaging for a healthy planet. GreenerPackage.com offers exclusive content and access to informed conversations that generate solutions to the complex chal¬lenges of sustainable packaging. Expert-guided discussion groups; a comprehensive Greener Package directory that allows users to research and compare sustainable packaging alternatives of materials, containers and suppliers; and the Greener Package Awards competition distinguish GreenerPackage.com from other resources on the Web.
This year’s Greener Package Awards is the first independent awards competition that focuses on packaging sustainability. Brand owners, designers, materials suppliers and retailers are invited to submit entries for our 2009 competition. There are five award categories, with criteria for each available at greenerpackage.com/awards. Entries are due May 29, 2009 and awards will be announced in September.
Packaging Digest
Packaging Digest is the most widely distributed information source for companies involved in packaging, as well as the related wholesaling and service industries. Content includes information on the latest packaging machinery, materials, technologies and designs, and provides real-world examples of successful packaging innovations and strategies.
Packaging Digest interacts with its audience through communications vehicles including magazines, supplements, original research, events, eNewsletters, webcasts and our website, www.packagingdigest.com
Triple Pundit
Triple Pundit is one of the world's most well-read websites on the subject of responsible business with a fast growing audience of over 100,000 unique readers a month. Our audience is composed of sustainability decision makers, consultants, entrepreneurs, corporate change agents, MBA students and others who seek to create a better world through the power of business.
Greenfly
EIATRACK is an online tool for quickly and cost-effectively navigating the maze of environmental regulations and legislation in every country. Information is compiled and maintained by legal and technical experts around the world. Subscribers are made aware of requirements and changes affecting their products in a timely, comprehensive manner.
WSP Online group manage and support EIATRACK and have developed an Ecodesign online tool with RMIT’s Centre for Design. Currently in trial format Greenfly will assist in compliance with the European Union directive on Energy using Products – EuP ecodesign requirements.
Greenfly is an easy-to-use, yet powerful online tool for designers to integrate environmental considerations into their products using LCA data; supporting the production of environmentally preferable products and EuP compliance.
Greenfly is designed for anyone involved in the development of products. From designers, engineers and manufactures to management and marketing. Instantly compare environmental impacts. Communicate environmental and budget considerations to clients.
To become a sponsor, please contact
Susan Abrams
800-516-4265 x 622
203-431-9305
sabrams@etouches.com