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Joel Makower

Business, Sustainability & Innovation

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  Joel Makower Profile

Joel Makower is chairman and co-founder of GreenBiz Group, a media and events company focusing at the intersection of business and the clean economy.

For more than 30 years, Joel has been a well-respected voice on business, the environment, and the bottom line. Among his many duties at GreenBiz, Joel hosts the annual GreenBiz forums and is lead author of the annual State of Green Business report.

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Joel Makower Profile
Joel Makower is chairman and co-founder of GreenBiz Group, a media and events company focusing at the intersection of business and the clean economy.

For more than 30 years, Joel has been a well-respected voice on business, the environment, and the bottom line. Among his many duties at GreenBiz, Joel hosts the annual GreenBiz forums and is lead author of the annual State of Green Business report.

In 2012, he was awarded the Hutchens Medal by the American Society for Quality, which cited "his ability to tell compelling stories that both inform and inspire business leaders toward profitable action." In 2014, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals.

A former nationally syndicated columnist, Joel is author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including The New Grand Strategy, published in 2016. Previous books include Strategies for the Green Economy, Beyond the Bottom Line: Putting Social Responsibility to Work for Your Business and the World, The E-Factor: The Bottom-Line Approach to Environmentally Responsible Business, and The Green Consumer.

He also writes Two Steps Forward, a popular blog on sustainable business, clean technology and green marketing.

Joel has been a commentator on environmental topics for public radio's "Marketplace" and appears frequently in both broadcast and print media. He serves as a board member or adviser to both for-profit and nonprofit organizations and speaks regularly to companies, industry groups and business schools around the world.

The Associated Press has called him "The guru of green business practices."

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  Joel Makower Talk Titles

From Here to Sustainability

From Here to Sustainability
Nearly every company is assessing itself through the lens of environmental and social sustainability. For a handful of leadership companies, it requires asking the question: "How do we compete in a world in which energy, water, materials and toxicity are constraints to growth, and what are the opportunities that result?" Today, sustainability is not just about "doing less bad" or "greening the bottom line." It's about reducing risk — supply chain, reputation, financial and more. It's about growing the top line through innovation, new markets, increased productivity and enhanced ability to attract and retain talent.

When Technology Meets Sustainability

When Technology Meets Sustainability
A convergence is taking place among energy, information, building and transportation, food and carbon-removal technologies, representing one of the next great waves of business innovation — and a boon to solving the planet's biggest challenges. This mash-up of clean technology, sustainable business and smart everything is creating vast opportunities for companies to develop ultra-efficient and innovative products, services and business models for companies, cities and customers. And it's creating new opportunities for those at every rung of the economic ladder.

Prosperity, Security, Sustainability

Prosperity, Security, Sustainability
America's Trillion-Dollar Opportunity
In an era of climate change, economic uncertainty and global turmoil, business as usual is giving way to bold, audacious thinking: How can business help build resilience and well-being while addressing social, environmental and economic challenges? It's a trillion-dollar business opportunity that affects every sector, and the inspiring subject of Joel's 2016 book, about a new economic opportunity for America, born at the Pentagon, that embeds sustainability as a strategic national imperative — an unprecedented opportunity for business.

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