SEATTLE, WA. - April 20, 2009 - Green Power Conferences is pleased to announce that the Mayor of Seattle, Greg Nickels, will provide the opening welcome at its first Action for a Sustainable America event on June 10-11. Described by Rolling Stone magazine as the "Pied Piper" of Mayors for his inspirational leadership on sustainability and climate change issues, Mayor Nickels is an excellent addition to this conference program.

Action for a Sustainable America will bring together leaders in corporate sustainability to examine how they are using sustainability to redefine corporate strategy and drive management practice. The aim of this event is to help companies develop the systems, strategies and frameworks that will successfully equip them for the challenges and opportunities now being presented by regulation, resource scarcity and climate change.

The event's speaker list has over a dozen CEO and Chairmen presenting including senior representatives from Microsoft, Boeing, Starbucks, Lafarge, New Belgium Beer, Kettle Foods, The Holland Inc, End Footwear, ShoreBank Pacific, Gray's Harbor Paper, Nestle Waters North America, fymi, Bonneville Environmental Foundation, gDiapers and more.

Along with corporate case studies, this event offers the very latest updates on regional, national and international climate policy developments affecting business. Washington State’s mandatory greenhouse gas reporting initiative - which may end up as the model for national GHG reporting "“ will be discussed in detail, for example. Janice Adair, Special Assistant to the Director of the Department of Ecology for the State of Washington will be participating in this event along with other experts in mandatory GHG reporting and climate policy.

Action for a Sustainable America is an excellent opportunity to network with and learn from those leading the transition to clean, green and profitable business practices.

Check out the full conference program and register soon.

For more information, please visit www.asaseries.com or contact: Andrew Slavin at 604-569-1752 or andrew.slavin@greenpowerconferences.com

About Action for a Sustainable America
Action for a Sustainable America is a series of conferences across the US at which leaders from corporations and organisations will meet to examine how they are using sustainability to redefine corporate strategy and drive management practice. The series kicks off in Seattle, June 10-11 and continues in Chicago (September) and Miami (November). These strategic and management focused events are complemented by detailed sector focused conferences on Manufacturing (Chicago, April), Stakeholder Engagement (July, New York), Fashion (September, Chicago), Water (San Francisco, December) and Food (San Francisco, December).

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Green Power Conferences provides high quality, interactive events specializing in four areas: Renewables, Biofuels, Carbon Markets and Action for a Sustainable America.

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Green Power Conferences provides high quality, interactive events specializing in four areas: Renewables, Biofuels, Carbon Markets and Corporate Climate Response. Corporate Climate Response events bring together companies, regulators and other carbon experts to discuss how companies can best reduce their overall carbon emissions.

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