Greenomics Wins Big Five Competition in Amsterdam

12 March 2010 Amsterdam

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and ING – a 2010 Conference sponsor – today announced the winners of “The Big Five Competition” in which small and medium-sized enterprises competed for a prize worth €13,000 ($C18,000) at this year’s Conference Market Place. “This opportunity gives people from around the world visibility to some of the innovative and creative sustainability solutions coming out of British Columbia, Canada.” said Erich Schwartz, President of Greenomics.

With this competition GRI and ING aim to enhance the profile of small and medium sized sustainable organizations and provide them opportunities to present themselves at the GRI conference, the world’s largest gathering of sustainability reporting and transparency experts. Ms. Dailah Nihot, ING’s Head of Corporate Responsibility, said, “Given the global challenges in today’s world, it is clear we need more innovative sustainable solutions. The business community is an important factor in driving innovation and bringing it to the market. We co-launched this competition with GRI in an effort to encourage some of the sustainable forerunners and support them in building their businesses for the future.”

GRI received over 50 applications from nearly two dozen countries around the world. The jury, consisting of Eric Bouwmeester, Wilbert Lek, Nancy Kamp-Roelands, Jonatan Pinkse, and Giuseppe van der Helm evaluated the applications and their contribution to sustainability. The five winning organizations come from The Netherlands, France, Canada, the U.S. and the UK.

Participants of the 2010 Amsterdam Global Conference can look forward to engaging with the innovative Big Five Competition Winners throughout the two and a half day Conference. For further information on both the Conference and the Market Place, visit GRI’s Conference website.

Vancouver, June 29 — Today at 11:00 AM Pacific Time, Vancouver’s most listened to Radio Station, CKNW AM980, will be discussing the Business of Sustainability. Greenomics President, Erich Schwartz, will discuss how businesses can mitigate risks and leverage significant opportunities by embracing more sustainable practices. New environmental government policies and regulations, and growing consumer awareness and demands will make change inevitable. Businesses that understand sustainability and proactively embrace it will have the competitive advantage. Tune in to CKNW at AM980 or visit CKNW Live online. Learn about the tools and methodologiues Greenomics uses to help businesses gain a sustainable advantage. While listening, please add your comments and questions on the Greenomics blog.

Vancouver’s weekly newspaper, Business in Vancouver (BIV), produces several events every year that bring Vancouver’s business leaders together for information sharing and networking. These events deliver business intelligence that is relevant, timely, and applicable to your business.

BIV is starting their Business Excellence Breakfast Series this June 11th, 2009 with their Colour Series. It is designed to give you real world insight into the four pillars of business excellence: profitability, sustainability, investment, and philanthropy.

The first in the series is The Business of Being Green: Practical advice to make sustainability work for your business. At a time when business focus is turning to cutting costs and the bottom line, how do you keep sustainable initiatives high on the priority list?

We are pleased to announce our president, Erich Schwartz, has been invited to be a panellist for this exciting topic. He will be providing insights into how sustainability can make your company more profitable. Please join us at the Colour Series: GREEN.

To learn more and register, see Colour Series GREEN Event

“I genuinely hope you will attend this event and join us in furthering sustainable business practices to make businesses more profitable.” Erich Schwartz

Businesses Profit with Consumer Confidence in Sustainable Transparency, Going Green Pays. Everyone wants to do the right thing by Going Green, but can a company remain viable in the transformation? Greenomics launches new services that will ensure quantifiable demonstration of actual progress for Companies trying to become Sustainable.

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