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Below is a selection of highlights from the USBN’s public LinkedIn page. Please visit us on LinkedIn for the latest news and updates from USBN and our members.
USBN’s January 15, 2025, legislative update featured guests Josh Craft from Utah Clean Energy and Tom Moyer from Climate Utah and Citizens’ Climate Lobby. The discussion covered critical topics, including Operation Gigawatt, grid and transmission capacity, clean energy economics, air quality legislation, and the Great Salt Lake.
🎉 Thank you to everyone who joined us last night for our fall gathering and celebrated our 📣 big announcement 🥂! Couldn’t make it? Here’s a 30-second peek into the fun! Last night, we were thrilled to announce that the Utah Sustainable Business Coalition is now officially a nonprofit organization called The Utah Sustainable Business Network
Thrilled to have seen so many Utahns at the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA) conference at Snowbird yesterday! Special thanks to Valentina Prado at Sphera for an awesome LCA workshop full of helpful information and new ways to think about things.
Thank you to everyone who came out to our networking event at Baltic Pointe yesterday! It was a beautiful evening for touring Utah’s first mass timber commercial project and enjoying the stunning mountain views and gorgeous work spaces. Special thanks to Ryan Bevan for teaching us…
Event recap: Intermountain Sustainability Summit Networking
Thank you to everyone who came out to the Copper Nickel to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Intermountain Sustainability Summit! The company was delightful, the locally sourced cheese was delicious, and everyone was excited to continue their conversations about Jeff Speck and his work creating a vibrant, sustainable, walkable community in Utah City!
Thank you to CSRHub for an insightful overview of the ESG ratings landscape and how these ratings can influence corporate strategy, supplier engagement, investment decisions, and due diligence. It was fascinating to learn how the ESG scores of Utah businesses compare to those of our…
USBC hosted a webinar on January 10 that was chalk full of information on bills to watch in the 2024 legislative session that kicks off this week. You can view the webinar slides by clicking here. You can watch the recorded webinar here. Here is a quick summary of what to expect…
Thank you to all those who participated in the USBC sponsored Supply Chain event. Our expert panelists, Jeff Sokol from Nu Skin, Emily Vesling from Trane Technologies, Lexi Passmore from Swire Coca-Cola, and Donald Cherry from USANA Health Sciences did a fantastic job outlining the…
Thank you to Utah Business and Rocky Mountain Power for honoring the USBC with a 2023 Green Business Award and congratulations to the 5 other USBC members who were also recognized for their work: Creative Energies Solar, Swire Coca-Cola, USA, Hogle Zoo, UT Department of Government…
Congratulations to the winners 
of our Just One Thing contest, and thank you to everyone who attended for making last night’s event such a huge success! Over 200 people voted for the 33 USBC members who submitted videos about the inspiring things they’re doing to advance…
Thanks to everyone who joined us for our Strategic Sustainability Employee Initiatives: Research-Backed Insights webinar last week. A very special thank you to Jane Day for sharing her research and insights with us and to Tracy Harden for organizing this incredibly well attended event!
Three key takeaways from the event include…
Thanks to everyone who came out for our “What Went Wrong” networking event at Fisher Brewing. It was a beautiful day to be outside and talking sustainable business with friends both old and new. Special thanks to Tracy Harden and Jeff Sokol for making sure everyone …
Happy summer and a belated thank you to everyone who came out for the USBC panel at the 2nd annual Sustainability Summit at Utah Valley University. Special thanks to Trent McCausland from Nature’s Sunshine Products, Katelyn Thacker from BanQu …
Thanks to everyone who came out yesterday for our sold-out networking event after an amazing day at the Intermountain Sustainability Summit – what a wonderful day full of reconnection and learning! Thank you to Nalini Nadkarni for …
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THANK YOU to everyone who came out to spend #InternationalWomensDay talking about #ESG at the World Trade Association of Utah ‘s Women in International Business Conference. We had an incredibly rich discussion on deriving business value from ESG and the …
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Congratulations to the winners of the Park City Green Business Program’s Green Business Awards! Alpine Distilling, Green Business of the Year Award Chesley Electric, Zest for Zero award Ski Butlers, Global Impact awardEATS Park …
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Thank you to everyone who made our networking night such a huge success! 
We learned what our businesses can do about the drought from our amazing panelists Shelby Erickson of Utah Department …
Thank you to everyone who volunteered at the Utah Recycling Alliance’s CHaRMs (Collection of Hard to Recycle Materials) event for Earth Day! We were able to collect over 90 lbs of plastic film, along with electronics, old food, bicycle parts and more! A special shoutout to the USANA team, Mercedes Anto from Intermountain, Karlee Siepierski from Swire, and …
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