ELM - Corporate Council
An Innovative Strategic Alliance
ELM launched a new initiative -- the ELM - Corporate Council -- to build a bridge between the environmental community and leading Massachusetts companies that have demonstrated innovative environmental policies or practices
Click on links at right for member list and information.
Objectives
The objective of the ELM Corporate Council is to create a working alliance between the corporate sector and environmental advocates to improve environmental policy and business practice in the Commonwealth. The Council will represent a counter-intuitive, pro-business and pro-environment association that educates and advocates for sound environmental and business regulatory policy.
Key elements are:
- To develop a business-environmental public policy agenda and alliance to lobby state and local government jointly on behalf of environmentally-sensitive business practices and environmental regulations generally.
- To showcase corporate environmental innovations as teachable models for others to adopt.
Guidelines
Invitations to participate in the Corporate Council are guided by the following principles:
- ELM will not associate with any corporate entity that is actively and consistently supporting environmental practices or policies opposed by ELM, regardless of other corporate initiatives that may be beneficial to the environment.
- In determining Council membership, ELM will consider compliance history, environmental performance relative to others in their sector, business model, and corporate reputation.
- ELM will not endorse a corporate entity generally, but will focus on a particular environmental innovation or extraordinary commitment to specific environmental safeguards.
In the News:
August 16, 2010 - Triumvirate's John McQuillan helps finance Next Step Living, Inc.
Next Step Living, Inc, (www.nextsteplivinginc.com) a pioneering energy efficiency and renewable energy company based in Boston, Massachusetts, today announced a $2.6 million first close of their Series B financing round. The financing was led by local green entrepreneur John McQuillan, President & CEO of Triumvirate Environmental, who was joined by other new investors and returning Series A investors including Black Coral Capital and the Clean Energy Venture Group.
For the full article, go here.
August 6, 2010 - OpEd "Let Green Power Energize Mass" by ELM's Corporate Council member Tedd Saunders
Today we stand at a crossroads in the debate over our energy future, and the choices we make will define the arc of American prosperity for decades to come.
Despite major support from business, religious and national security leaders, Senate Republicans and coal-state Democrats succeeded in postponing long-awaited action on a clean energy climate bill.
To read the full article, go here.
The Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. said it has completed its first solar installation in Boston, adding to seven other stores in the Northeast where it is already generating clean power, the company announced today.
The Quincy-based grocer installed photovotaic panels on its store at 1100 Massachusetts Ave. in Dorchester as part of a broader campaign to reduce its carbon emissions 20 percent by 2015. Stop & Shop has also installed panels on stores in Dedham and Somerville, as well as on five other outlets in New Jersey and Connecticut.
The solar panels, developed by Alteris Renewables Inc., will cut the overall energy consumed at those stores by 8 percent, Stop & Shop said.
June 10, 2010 - Cape Wind - DPU testimony by ELM Corporate Council members
The Environmental League of Massachusetts and six ELM Corporate Council Members submitted testimony to the Department of Public Utilties in support of Cape Wind and the further development of renewable energy in New England and the nation.
To read this testimony click below:
www.environmentalleague.org/upload/docs/capewind.pdf
May 21, 2010 - Aggregate Industries Applauded for Green Effort
While reducing its own carbon footprint, Aggregate Industries Northeast Region Inc. in Saugus also is helping customers reduce theirs.
To read the full article from the Boston Business Journal, click here.
May 20, 2010 - ELM Corporate Council members support Cape Wind
There are few issues as divisive among the state’s voters and politicians as the Cape Wind proposal to put up 130 giant windmills in the heart of Nantucket Sound. So it’s not surprising to find out that the state’s business community is also divided on the topic.
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April 28, 2010 - Salazar approves Cape Wind and the Nation's First Offshore Wind Farm
In a groundbreaking decision that some say will usher in a new era of clean energy, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said today he had approved the nation's first offshore wind farm, the controversial Cape Wind project off of Cape Cod.
To read the article from the Boston Globe Green Blog, click here.
March 30, 2010 - Saunders Hotels Chases Down Energy Efficiency
Sustainability certification and “green” initiatives are helping hotel chains like Sandals Resorts and Saunders Group Hotel save on valuable energy and water resources, while helping their bottom lines as more companies and consumers consider a hotel’s sustainability as part of their selection criteria...
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