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Sustaining the Future:
A Social Responsibility Event
Earth Day – April 22, 2009
11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Discovery World, Milwaukee, WI
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ASQ and the Milwaukee community present an Earth Day celebration to launch a national movement to align social responsibility and quality principles to achieve bottom-line results.
The emergence of social responsibility has prompted ASQ to embark on a major initiative to help the world understand the value of and business case for social responsibility and the role of quality to maintain a competitive advantage.
By attending this high-impact launch, you will engage with like-minded business leaders who have a vested interest in using social responsibility to grow business, manage costs, and reduce waste to achieve positive business results.
The movement will start here, now, and with us!
Why attend this launch?
- Learn how quality management principles can deliver effective social responsibility initiatives.
- Receive an executive summary of successful and inspiring social responsibility and sustainability practices from local and national businesses.
- Learn the Milwaukee community’s response through early findings of the Metro Milwaukee Green initiative.
- Hear the awe-inspiring perspective of photographer and environmentalist Chris Jordon on how U.S. consumption is affecting the future.
Individual tickets are available for $130 ($90 tax deductible). Please contact ASQ Customer Care at 800-248-1946. |
| Keynote Speaker |
 Chris Jordon
World-renowned Photographer and Environmental Activist
Chris Jordan was chosen by National Geographic Channels International to serve as its eco-ambassador for Earth Day 2008 and recently won the prestigious Green Leaf Award from the United Nations Environmental Programme, presented at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway. Check out this video to see his powerful position on the wastefulness of Western culture.
Jordan is a Seattle-based photographic artist who first became known for his large-scale color photographs of the detritus of American consumer culture, in a series titled Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption. Since then, his images have been featured in hundreds of magazines, newspapers, television features, documentary films, books, art museums, festivals, and public venues around the world. |
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| Special thanks to our sponsors: |
Executive Sponsor
Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Growth Sponsors
Johnson Controls
Marquette University |
Sustaining Sponsor
Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren S.C.
Goodwill of Southeastern Wisconsin
Partners
City of Milwaukee
Greater Milwaukee Committee
Metro Milwaukee Green
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Visit Milwaukee |
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