Puget Sound business leaders will have an opportunity to explore productive and innovative uses for waste materials and resources at the third annual Waste-to-Profit Workshop and Networking Event on Wednesday, March 17th. The event will convene Puget Sound area companies and organizations in a facilitated process to spark new opportunities for materials and resource exchange across sectors.
Sustainability is a complex concept with many branches, variations, stakeholders, slogans, books and branding efforts. The drivers of sustainability combine urgent with long-range and individual with collective, thus defying easy verbal description. With some studies showing that up to 60% of the general population are “visual learners,” there is a great need to develop, standardize and use visual methods for describing the whys and wherefores of sustainability.