Crain’s: Sustainability Leaders Convene in NYC
Last week Crain’s New York wrote a nice story about how the Sustainable Operations Summit will be taking place in New York City this year. Here is a small exceprt from the story:
Environmentalists working to make New York City a greener place soon will claim a new feather in their caps: The Sustainable Operations Summit, a conference aimed at promoting green business activities, will bring its big annual meeting to the Big Apple in April. Former President Bill Clinton will be the keynote speaker at the seventh-annual summit, planned for the Hilton New York from April 17 to 19.
Conference organizers chose New York in large part for the Bloomberg administration’s recent green initiatives, which range from supporting green-business incubators to making efforts to slash greenhouse gas emissions, says Michael Owens, vice president of production and marketing for CraigMichaels, the Manhattan-based company running the event. Those considerations outweighed the higher cost of holding the gathering in New York City, where the event will be 20% more expensive than in past settings such as San Antonio.
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