We're excited to announce Jib Ellison will be discussing one of our favorite topics this month at  Fortune Brainstorm: GREEN. He will moderate a panel on What Is Nature Worth? with Jared Diamond and Pavan Sukhdev. Glen Low will be there discussing another favorite topic, Sustainability Indexes: What's the Magic Number? with Dara O'Rourke, Mark Lee and Marc Gunther. Both of these topics were for years squarely in the 'too hard' box, but we now have real world examples of progress on both fronts. If you'll be at the conference, we hope you'll join in the discussion and find time to connect with Glen and Jib.

April 12, 2012, Stanford Camplus, Palo Alto, CA — Blu Skye's Glen Low will be speaking at this year's Berkeley-Stanford Cleantech Conference on a panel about how clean tech is playing a role in improving the efficiency and reducing the impacts of global supply chains.

Join Jib Ellison and Chris Mann, CEO/Chairman of the Gourd of Guayakí Sustainable Rainforest Products, importer and marketer of yerba mate on March 7 at 6:30 PM in Santa Rosa for what promises to be a stimulating discussion on the future of sustainable business.

The Corporate Eco Forum will present a webinar on November 2nd, 12:00pm EDT/9:00am PDT, featuring Blu Skye founder and CEO Jib Ellison. Jib recently co-authored The Big Idea: The Sustainable Economy in the latest Harvard Business Review. Jib was also featured in the recent book Force of Nature by Edward Humes. CEF members can register by emailing Michael Vito (michael@corporateecoforum.com) with your name, title, and organization.

On October 4th at 6pm, Blu Skye's Jib Ellison will join author Michael Pollan and Jack Sinclair, EVP of Grocery at Walmart for a discussion on the role of corporations in the sustainable food movement.  This class is part of the UC Berkeley course Edible Education 101: The Rise and Future of the Food Movement, which in addition to the 400 UC Berkeley students who are enrolled in the course is open to about 300 general public free of charge.

Harvard Business Review Complimentary Audio Webinar

Climate One at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco Sept. 12 at 6pm.  Event description: The many services that nature provides to humans are undervalued in commercial markets because it is difficult to put a price tag on them. Now with increasing awareness about sustainability and resource limitations, companies are paying more attention to such ecosystem services. That means better understanding of activities such as crop pollination, pest control, and waste decomposition, and calculating economic impacts including the benefits of those services and the costs to companies and society if they are diminished. Join us for a conversation with a consultant advising some of the world's largest companies on how to think about ecosystem services and a visionary environmentalist working to preserve and value biodiversity around the world.

Leveraging Corporate Responsibility Leadership to Enhance Strategy, Brand, and Employee Engagement
Companies leave value, money and opportunity on the table every day with ineffective CSR. CSR 3.0 helps participants learn to conceptualize, develop, and deliver a business strategy, communications approach, and employee engagement plan that leverages the business value and unrecognized opportunities of corporate responsibility.

It seems that every company has gone green these days and at long last, Interface Carpets is no longer the only success story that gets touted at conferences. But in spite of the abundance of corporate commitments and initiatives, the environmental and social news do not seem to be getting any better.

How are companies grappling with rising energy costs and uncertainty about energy policy? How should they think about carbon dioxide, an invisible and odorless substance no one used to care about? Is it an asset or a liability or both? Can movers actually generate new revenue streams by being more sophisticated about their energy usage? Is volatility a friend or a foe? Join Climate One as we delve into a conversation with companies trying to make a business measuring and managing power in new ways.

Employee Engagement: Building a New Team

The pressure is on for continuous improvement and innovation in corporate sustainability performance. How do you go from sustainability as the job of a select group of employees to sustainability as part of everyone's job? How can you scale employee engagement in a cost-effective manner? And what are ways to track the results to increase performance?

Systemic Change and the US Dairy Industry

In this Issues in Depth call, Tripp Borstel, a consultant at Blu Skye and Erin Fitzgerald, Director of Social and Environmental Innovation at Dairy Management Inc. will discuss the story of the sustainability journey of the U.S. dairy industry and share some of the insights, challenges and lessons learned. Visit the Net Impact IID site to register.