Leaders of the international trend toward "greener" corporations will speak in an eight-part seminar series at Cornell titled "Industrial Ecology: Connecting Business and the Environment."
The seminar series began Feb. 14 with a presentation by Andrea Farrell, chair of the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable. The next speakers will be David Lyons, engineering manager of Environmental and Engineering Services at Corning Inc., and Anthony Gallo, professor of business in the University of North Carolina at Wilmington's Cameron School of Business. Their talk is set for Friday, March 7, at 10 a.m. in 253 Malott Hall.
The seminars, which are sponsored by Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, Center for the Environment, and Work and Environment Initiative, are open to the public at no charge.
"Three decades of increasingly complex environmental regulations threatened to make natural enemies of business and the environment," said Thomas McGalliard, researcher in the Cornell Work and Environment Initiative and an organizer of the seminar series. "The assumption by corporate America was that higher levels of environmental protection inevitably lead to higher costs for business."
Other scheduled speakers include:
An informal buffet luncheon with the speakers will follow each presentation in the Collyer Room of Malott Hall. Then participants are invited to join small-group discussion sessions led by Alan K. McAdams, Cornell associate professor of managerial economics, and students from the business school and other programs, to explore each topic in depth and draw on actual case studies. The discussion sessions are scheduled from 1:30 to 3:45 p.m. in 253 Malott Hall.
For more information about the seminar series, call 254-5089 or e-mail tnm2@cornell.edu .