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Welcome New Members!
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Colorado Dept. of Public Health & Environment, Division of Environmental Health and Sustainability
Denver, CO
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Join Now!
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Gain unprecedented access, develop partnerships and create advocates with businesses, organizations, and states that will engage your employees, inspire innovation and strengthen your commitment to social responsibility. Share and promote dialogues and actions dedicated to building brand value from social, environmental and economic performance. Let us introduce you to your new partners.
The Stewardship Action Council invites all interested members to join now with a one-time first year application fee.
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Contact SAC
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SAC Headquarters:
1155 15th Street, NW
Suite 500
Washington, DC 20005
Phone:202-296-3952
Fax: 202-530-0659
Anne Vogel-Marr
Executive Director
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2012 Board of Directors
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Bill Bozzo - Chair
DM Petroleum Operations Company
Annette Russo - President
Johnson & Johnson
John Farris - Secretary/Treasurer
Pfizer
Ian Bingham - Member At Large
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
Dan Fiorino
American University
Wildlife Habitat Council
Calvert Investments
West Liberty Foods
3M
Frank Priznar
PRIZIM Inc.
CLF Ventures
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SAC to Participate in Conference Board Event
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SAC has been invited to participate in Conference Board's upcoming Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability Conference - A New Business Model: The Management Challenge of Ethics, Citizenship & Sustainability. This event will take place on June 20th and 21st, 2012 at The Fairfax at Embassy Row in Washington D.C. SAC members wishing to attend will receive a 20% discount on the cost of registration. Register here.
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SAC Website Updates
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 Member Facilities Mapped! Check out the locations of our members and see who is in your area.
Minutes from the April 10, 2012 Membership Meeting and Level 4 Group Responses are posted on the SAC Members Only Website. If you would like a copy emailed to you, please contact Charlotte.
Have a webinar topic you would like us to consider? Email Anne.
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First SAC Annual Report Released!
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The first Annual Report highlights the Stewardship Action Council's accomplishments this past year and member submitted facility pages from 50 of our 73 members. View the Executive Summary or the complete document above.
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News and Events Recommended by SAC Members
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If you have an upcoming event or news item that you would like to share with the SAC community, please contact Anne or Charlotte.
Green Chemistry in Action: Lubrication Technologies Develops Water Based Paint Booth Cleaner
Webinar on Monday, May 21, 2-3 pm EDT
Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now!
Lubrication Technologies developed a product for the St. Paul, Minnesota Ford Motor Plant that would be safer, more effective, and able to replace high VOC emitting solvents used in their glass cleaning, floor cleaning and paint booth maintenance operations. Lubrication Technologies worked with the Ford Motor Company to develop and test a cleaning product that works better than a solvent, contains less VOC's per gallon, improves worker safety, and is competitively priced. After 17 prototypes, a formula was developed that breaks the paint sludge bonds by separating the solvent from paint solids thereby causing it to work effectively and longer on more surfaces than originally intended. As a result, Ford Sludge Remover (FSR) reduced paint department costs both in product and labor, provided a more employee friendly product, and significantly decreased Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions.
Pollution is prevented at the source due to the reduced VOC content of the product coupled with the product's ability to perform at a reduced usage rate.
This webinar is funded through a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant.
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
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2012 MVP2 Awards Open for Nominations
The National Pollution Prevention Roundtable is accepting nominees for the 2012 Most Valuable Pollution Prevention (MVP2) Awards. The MVP2 awards are presented annually during National Pollution Prevention Week. National Pollution Prevention week is the third week of September, September 17th - 23rd, 2012.
Awards are presented in four categories, Project/Program, Best Multimedia, P2 Champion, and P2 Volunteer of the Year. The MVP2 Project/Program, P2 Champion, and Best P2 Multimedia are open to all levels of government, industry, small business, non-profit, and academia. The awards are designed to recognize outstanding and innovative P2 projects/programs. As in years past, awards are judged on the following five broad criteria: innovation, measurable results, transferability, commitment, and optimization of available project resources.
The deadline for applications is July 1, 2012.
Information on past recipients and this year's application are available at www.p2.org.
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Earth Stewardship Workshop June 18 and 19, 2012
Earth Stewardship: Building strategic interdisciplinary partnerships among natural and social scientists and practitioners to foster sustainability in a rapidly changing world.
Specific workshop objectives include:
1) Bringing together academics within the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, along with practitioners in planning, design, engineering, government, and civil society, to identify the scientific uncertainties and to develop a strategic plan for Earth stewardship;
2) Developing a strategy for learning, communicating and teaching about Earth stewardship.
The two-day workshop will be held on June 18th and 19th, 2012 at the National 4H Conference Center in Chevy Chase, MD (http://www.4hcenter.org/). Participant travel and subsistence costs will be covered by a National Science Foundation grant to ESA.
This workshop is part of the wider ESA Earth Stewardship initiative (http://www.esa.org/earthstewardship/). We recognize that environmental stewardship is broader than ecology and that, in order to make progress, we need broad and diverse perspectives. Read a paper that outlines the initiative in greater detail here.
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EPA Region 6 (North Texas) Municipal Sustainable Materials Management and Pollution Prevention Grant Updates
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SAC has received word that the EPA Region 6 grant review process has been completed and grant package has been sent on for final signature. We expect to receive notice to proceed shortly.
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Member Testimonial of the Month
James M. Fay, 3M Menomonie Plant Manager
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Environmental stewardship is a cornerstone of 3M's business model. 3M's sustainability model includes Economic Success, Social Responsibility and Environmental Stewardship. At the local level, 3M Menomonie has a long standing partnership with local and state organizations. The Stewardship Action Council is an extension of those partnerships and another step in our journey of meeting our sustainability objectives.
Read testimonials from other members.
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BMP of the Month from Covanta Montgomery
Installation of Low NOx (oxides of Nitrogen) Technology
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NOx is emitted from municipal solid waste (MSW) combustion and is a precursor to the formation of ground level ozone and acid-rain. As an Energy-from-Waste company, Covanta took the initiative to reduce NOx emissions by researching and developing this innovative technology.
Access the full BMP on the SAC Members Only Website!
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