Loblaw’s Galen G. Weston and WWF Canada Headline Green Economy Dialogue at Summit
by admin on Friday, September 25th, 2009Are sustainability and growth competing objectives? Not at the 2009 Ontario Economic Summit.
This is just one theme being explored during the “Go Green and Prosper” session at the Summit, happening November 2-4, 2009 at Niagara-on-the-Lake. Highlighting the session will be a joint presentation from Gerald Butts, President & CEO of World Wildlife Fund Canada and Galen G. Weston, Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Limited. Earlier this year, Loblaw made a commitment to source 100% sustainable seafood by 2013. The company has also announced an ambitious clean technology project for its Cambridge distribution facility that “could potentially reduce the environmental impacts of the transportation and storage of perishable goods”.
Ziya Tong, co-host of the popular Daily Planet on the Discovery Channel will facilitate a question and answer session and moderate a separate panel exploring alternative energy and conservation themes. The panel will feature Ken Field, Chairman of Greenfield Ethanol Inc. , Laura Formusa, President and CEO of Hydro One and Paul Rak, President of VeriForm, an innovative metal fabicator with green thinking at the core of its business strategy.
Sustainability and prosperity will also be themes covered in our “Big Impact Infrastructure” session. The Summit is pleased to welcome Bill Smith, Senior Vice-President, Siemens Canada Limited to the panel. Siemens recently completed a study on behalf of the United States Conference of Mayors with some very interesting findings regarding municipal infrastructure budgets, climate change technologies and economic opportunity. The Metropolitan Infrastructure Sustainability Study can be found at the Siemens website: http://w1.siemens.com/entry/cc/en/sustainablecities.htm
A limited number of spaces to participate at the Summit still remain for interested senior leaders from business, government, labour and academic sectors. Not-for-profit entities are also welcome to inquire about participation. Learn more here.
