West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum will host a program and tour of one of the region’s most exciting conservation projects at its monthly luncheon on Monday, August 6, at Blandford Nature Center. Featured speakers are Joseph Engel, Executive Director of The Land Conservancy of West Michigan and Jason Meyer, Executive Director Blandford Nature Center, who […]
West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum will host a luncheon forum on the sustainability impact of autonomous vehicles, LED lights and other emerging technologies on Monday, July 16 at the Meijer Heritage Center. The featured speaker is Gregory Keoleian, Peter M. Wege Endowed Professor of Sustainable Systems and Director of the Center for Sustainable Systems at […]
West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum has named BarFly Ventures the 2017 West Michigan Sustainable Business of the Year. Local businesses Comfort Research, Cascade Engineering and Holland Board of Public Works were also honored.
West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum will recognize Comfort Research with the inaugural Circular Economy Leadership Award on Wednesday, October 25 at the Grand Rapids Ballet’s Peter M. Wege Theatre. The Circular Economy Leadership Award honors an organization for successful efforts to promote waste diversion and the development of a circular economy in West Michigan through […]
West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum will recognize Cascade Engineering with the inaugural Social Responsibility Leadership Award on Wednesday, October 25 at the Grand Rapids Ballet’s Peter M. Wege Theatre. The Social Responsibility Leadership Award honors an organization for successful efforts to promote corporate social responsibility, equity, empowerment and justice within its operations and the communities […]
West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum will recognize the Holland Board of Public Works with its inaugural Climate Leadership Award on Wednesday, October 25 at the sold-out Triple Bottom Line Bash. The Climate Leadership Award is one of three new awards WMSBF has created as part of its annual Sustainable Business of the Year Awards. It […]
West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum will honor Mark LaCroix of Natural Capital Partners and Sarah Chartier of Spectrum Health at the Fourth Annual Triple Bottom Line Bash on Wednesday, October 25 at the Grand Rapids Ballet’s Peter M. Wege Theatre. Currently Natural Capital Partners Executive Vice President for the Americas, LaCroix has been promoting sustainability […]
West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum and the Sierra Club Michigan Chapter hosted a dialogue with Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune on June 9 at Rockford Construction. Brune was in Grand Rapids to meet with WMSBF and local Sierra Club members en route to the Michigan chapter’s 50th Anniversary dinner in Ann Arbor the following night. Read […]
West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum will honor Jason Kehr as the 2017 President’s Award winner at its Annual Meeting this Monday. The President’s Award recognizes a professional for his or her contributions to the growth and development of West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum. It is given each year at the WMSBF Annual Meeting. View past […]
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. – October 13, 2016 – West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum named Aquinas College its 2016 West Michigan Sustainable Business at its Third Annual Triple Bottom Line Bash. The Sustainable Business of the Year Award is selected annually by a vote of the WMSBF membership, honoring the local company that best represents the […]