Sustain Dane Summit

media release: The 16th annual Sustain Dane Summit is coming up! Do you have your ticket? 

Join us for a conference for sustainability leaders to learn, connect, share, reflect, and build new skills. The Summit will be held Friday, November 8 at the Monona Terrace Community & Convention Center.

We’ll hear from author and journalist Esha Chhabra for the keynote address, and will recognize the innovative sustainability work businesses, organizations, and local leaders are accomplishing throughout our community.

Last year 100% of survey respondents were inspired to take action on something they learned. 

Agenda

Breakfast & Networking 8 AM — 9 AM

Harnessing the Power of Regenerative Business to Heal the World with author Esha Chhabra 9 AM — 10:30 AM

Break 10:30 AM — 11 AM

Local Sustainability Wins: Projects Making a Difference  11 AM — 12:15 PM

Lunch, Raffle, & Networking 12:15 PM — 1:30 PM

Renewing Purpose: How Nature Sustains Us 1:30 PM — 2:30 PM

Live Forward Awards 2:30 PM — 3 PM

Closing 3 PM

Keynote Speaker: Harnessing the Power of Regenerative Business to Heal the World with author Esha Chhabra

Esha Chhabra has been a writer and journalist focused on global development, the environment, and business for over a decade. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Time, Economist, Guardian, Forbes, The Washington Post, Fast Company, Wired, and more. Her debut book, Working to Restore, won Best Business Book of the Year at the Tata Lit Fest, amongst other accolades.

Esha draws on her decades of reporting to explore not only the “feel good, do good” factors of restorative enterprises across nine industries but also the nuanced realities and promise of regenerative business operations. In Working to Restore, Esha highlights how their work moves into a new era of regeneration and restoration.

In Esha’s words, Working to Restore is a book about business– about how to do business more thoughtfully, consciously, and equitably. In this increasingly divisive political and economic landscape, it’s become easy to point at what’s wrong with the world. Yet, in her journalism over the past decade, she has tried to focus on solutions: here’s the problem, but here’s a potential solution. That’s what her book is — an exploration of what’s possible, a smattering of stories from around the world that are held by one common thread: a restorative approach to business.

New this year join us for a pre-Summit Happy Hour hosted by Mansion Hill Inn on Thursday, November 7 from 4:30 – 6:30 PM. Connect with the sustainability community coming to the Summit in the unique historic setting of the Inn. To register for this limited event, add the Mansion Hill Inn add-on to your regular registration. Ticket cost includes one complimentary drink and snacks. Registrants will receive further details via email, please reach out to Sam with any questions at samantha@sustaindane.org.

We are excited to announce the winners of the 2024 Sustain Dane Live Forward Awards. The Live Forward Awards acknowledge inclusive leaders who locally focus on sustainability, community healing, and resilience. This year's winners include:

    Cody White, Madison Area Technical College

    Isak Drangstveit, Waunakee Sustainability Committee

    Tiffany Malone, Alvarado Real Estate Group