Allan Gerlat, News Editor

January 20, 2012

1 Min Read
Major Companies Form Sustainability Council

Ten of the United States’ largest corporations have formed an organization focusing on innovation as a means to improve sustainability.

Led by the Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM and the World Environment Center (WEC), the companies formed the Innovations in Environmental Sustainability Council. The organization will explore how innovation in business process and technology can provide solutions to sustainability challenges involving materials, energy, water, infrastructure and logistics. 

Other members of the council are Boeing, CH2M Hill, Coca-Cola Co., Dow Chemical Co., F. Hoffmann-La Roche A.G., General Motors Corp., Johnson & Johnson and the Walt Disney Co. The Washington-based WEC is a non-profit organization that aims to advance sustainable development through business practices.

The companies will be able to use what they learn from this collaboration within their own organizations, IBM said in a news release. The council will hold its first meeting Feb. 7-8 in Orlando, Fla. 

"The establishment of the Innovations for Environmental Sustainability Council represents another significant commitment by IBM and other sustainability leaders from the private sector to integrate their innovation and market leadership capabilities with the need to provide solutions to a growing number of challenges facing modern society," stated Dr. Terry F. Yosie, WEC president and CEO. 

 

 

About the Author(s)

Allan Gerlat

News Editor, Waste360

Allan Gerlat joined the Waste360 staff in September 2011 as news editor. He was the editor of Waste & Recycling News for the first 16 years of its history, and under his guidance the publication won 27 national and regional awards.

Before Waste & Recycling News, Allan worked at another Crain Communications publication, Rubber & Plastics News, which covers rubber product manufacturing. He began with the publication as associate editor and eventually became managing editor, a position he held for nine years.

Allan is a graduate of Ohio University, where he earned a BS in journalism. He is based in Sagamore Hills, in northeast Ohio.

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