Moises Cisneros, moises.cisneros@sierraclub.org
Redlands, CA -- Can business development and the environment be balanced? What are local best practices that can be modeled? How do business owners help avert an environmental crisis while still minding the bottom line? Join community and business leaders Wednesday, Oct. 30 to hear and discuss insights into what’s possible and what’s already being done at the intersection of sustainable business development and healthy, resilient communities.
Attendees are invited to stay after the flash talk for a free pop-up art exhibition inspired by desert landscapes.
WHAT: Flash talk with leaders from a variety of fields on possibilities, challenges and opportunities for a sustainable economy
WHERE: San Bernardino County Museum, 2024 Orange Tree Ln, Redlands, CA 92374
WHEN: Wednesday, October 30; 2:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
* Pop-up art exhibition begins at 6:00 p.m.
WHO: J.D. Wang, reRubber, Inc.
Amanda Pace, REI Co-op
Michelle C. Burroughs, Center for Healthy Communities
Jasmine Clark, Inland Empire Resource Conservation District
Ray Anderson, Anderson Business Coaching
Roberto Morales, Nature for All
SPEAKERS AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW (Contact Moises.Cisneros@sierraclub.org to schedule):
JD Wang, MBA, founder and CEO of reRubber LLC. Over the last decade, reRubber has been instrumental in breakthrough of technologies related to recovering and recycling scrap materials and manufacturing recycled products. Mr. Wang serves actively on various recycling, sustainability, circular economy and academic committees and associations. He also contributes his time to various STEM programs around the local region and regularly speaks are various events to promote more environmental and sustainable thinking.
Ray Anderson-- For 30 years Ray has developed interactive training processes that align staff at all levels and functions into focused teams that dramatically improve productivity, reduce costs while increasing customer satisfaction. Combining proven individual and organizational assessment tools with his interactive training, one client achieved a 300% increase in production with only a 25% increase in labor.
As he enters the final chapter of his work life, he is dedicating himself to demonstrate how small business leaders, their organization and their people, can meet the challenges of change, by transforming themselves to become profitably sustainable and operate in harmony with their communities and the planet.
About the Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with more than 3.5 million members and supporters. In addition to protecting every person's right to get outdoors and access the healing power of nature, the Sierra Club works to promote clean energy, safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and legal action. For more information, visit www.sierraclub.org.