Boston, MA - The Society for Organizational Learning's Sustainability Consortium is hosting the SoL Forum on Business Innovation for Sustainability: Leadership, Learning, and Collaboration for a Living Economy on October 11-14, 2004 in Dearborn, Michigan. ( www.solonline.org/events/SustainabilityForum/)

This Forum is convened to help advance the learning, understanding, and potential solutions for many of today's pressing organizational, business, and environmental challenges. It is designed for managers and leaders interested in fostering innovation that aligns outstanding business results with environmental and social prosperity. In dialogue that cuts across industry and sector lines, it will apply an organizational learning perspective to a variety of core business sustainability topics:

• Integrating sustainability into value chains to reduce waste and toxicity
  
• Sustainability and results-oriented business cultures
  
• Developing leadership and understanding at all levels
  
• Building learning partnerships among business, government and civil society
  
• Public perceptions of climate change and the demand for alternative energy
  
• "Zero-to landfill" product design and manufacturing
  
• Sustainable mobility
  
• Water and sustainable agriculture
  
• The role of business in fostering leadership for sustainability

Session leaders include some of the most innovative practitioners and thinkers in the field:

• Janine Benyus, author, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
  
• David Duncan, SR VP R&D, Unilever
  
• John Ehrenfeld, MIT professor emeritus and Director International Society for Industrial
  
• John Elkington, Chairman, SustainAbility
  
• Stuart Hart, The Samuel C. Johnson Chair of Global Sustainable Enterprise, Cornell University
  
• Jeffrey Hollender, CEO, Seventh Generation and author of What Matters Most
  
• Amory Lovins, CEO and Co-founder, Rocky Mountain Institute
  
• Mieko Nishimizu, VP (retired) for Southeast Asia of the World Bank
  
• Roger Saillant, CEO, Plug Power
  
• Peter Senge, author, The Fifth Discipline and Founding Chair of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL)
  
• Robert Tierney, VP Environmental Affairs, UTC

About the SoL Sustainability Consortium
The SoL Sustainability Consortium is a "learning community" of companies committed to accelerating the learning needed to achieve a truly sustainable economy. Organized in 1995, the consortium utilizes the disciplines of Systems Thinking and Organizational Learning to explore and address the knotty issues surrounding the imperative to remain profitable while nurturing the natural systems and the communities within which we do business. Current members of the Sustainability Consortium are: BP, Coca Cola, DTE Energy, Ford, Harley Davison, HP, IFC, Nike, Plug Power, Schlumberger, Shell International, Unilever, United Technologies and Visteon.

For more information about SoL and the Forum please visit the website at www.solonline.org/events/SustainabilityForum or contact us at 617-964-2221.

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