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Environmental Defense Fund and Ashoka have organized a series of events to explore and accelerate sustainability innovations in business. These "Green Innovation in Business Unconferences" (GIBU) have been held in Washington DC, Boston, Silicon Valley and Austin. We're currently planning a new batch of events for 2010.

To read a summary of the highlights, themes and learning that came from the 2009 Unconferences, please click here: Green Innovation in Business 2009 Unconference Series Summary

These events focus on how to do good business with a reduced environmental impact. They bring together hundreds of professionals engaged in making their organizations more efficient, sustainable and leading-edge.Our goal is to connect you with other internal innovators to share experiences and ideas, explore new trends and opportunities, and brainstorm out-of-the-box solutions to the challenges we're all facing.




The agenda and session notes for GIBU Silicon Valley at eBay in San Jose. Also see Beth's summary.

Vesela Veleva has comments on the Boston event on the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship blog.

Read notes from the 6/22 GIBU in Boston and Kyle's summary.

Read notes from the 6/11 GIBU in Washington DC as well as Beth's summary on the Innovation Exchange blog.

Should I Attend?

  • Are you driving environmental innovation within your company?
  • Do you have ideas for operating more efficiently?
  • Are you exploring "greener" products or services?
  • Are you looking for new ways to engage employees, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders in sustainability?
  • Are you frustrated or successful at these efforts?
  • Do you want to redefine "business as usual" for your company and your industry?
Are you...
  • An individual working in a corporation, small or large, directly involved in sustainability efforts?
  • Senior management committed to, or curious about, the opportunities that sustainability initiatives can offer?
  • Staff or management of a non-profit working in partnership with corporations to improve environmental performance?
  • Offering environmental services?
  • Staff from a public sector agency working with corporations and/or pursuing entrepreneurial innovations to take more sustainable practices to scale?
  • An academic or consultant creating tools, forging partnerships and supporting models of what works in business sustainability?
If you are, you should be there.


What Should a Participant Expect?
-What's an Unconference?
-General agenda format for the Green Innovation for Business Unconference
-Agendas, break-out sessions, notes, and attendee list from past sessions

The Austin, TX Unconference (Sept 16th)
Location: 3M Innovation Center, 6801 River Place Blvd, Austin, TX 78726

What Should We Talk About at the Unconference?
This section is to facilitate a pre-discussion of agenda topics. Please click on the link and add your thoughts about what you would like to talk about at the Unconference!
-Past pre-Unconference agenda discussions

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JoeStar GBU Austin 1 Sep 29 2009, 1:53 PM EDT by BethTrask
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Well done to the EDF folks. Great UN-conference. Great step in the right direction.
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leah.fotis Join Ashoka's #SocEntChat on environmental entrepreneurship June 3 1 Jun 9 2009, 11:52 AM EDT by leah.fotis
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Just two days before World Environment Day and the week before the first of four "Green Innovation for Business" unconferences hosted by the Environmental Defense Fund and Ashoka (more info: http://bit.ly/47NMSb), Ashoka’s Twitter-based #SocEntChat (short for Social Entrepreneurship Chat) is happening on Wednesday, June 3, from 4-6pm US EDT, and is focusing on environmental entrepreneurship.

Join us and discuss the roll of social entrepreneurship in addressing environmental issues, explore case-studies of collaboration and innovation and help generate ideas and opportunities for the upcoming unconferences.

#SocEntChat takes place entirely within Twitter. You can follow the discussion without being a member of twitter by going to search.twitter.com and following the #SocEntChat tag. Enter the discussion anytime by just tagging one of your tweets with #SocEntChat.

#SocEntChat takes place on the first Wednesday of each month from 4-6pm US Eastern Time. For more information on Ashoka’s monthly #SocEntChat please go to www.squidoo.com/socentchat. To register for the Green Innovation unconferences in Washington DC, Boston, San Francisco or Austin go to http://blogs.edf.org/innovation/2009/05/29/green-innovation-for-business-update/
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GIBU 2009 Summary