This past decade or so has yielded something remarkable. Businesses — for so long our biggest polluters, energy users and waste creators — are becoming models of sustainability and environmental stewardship and advocacy.
The most stalwart of such businesses in Michigan make up the Great Lakes Business Network, which protects the Great Lakes and the millions that live or vacation in its basin by advocating for clean energy and against manure pollution and oil spills.
Larry Bell and Bob Sutherland are two of the Network's most active business leaders who have long dedicated their businesses to the environment.
Bell is the CEO of the Comstock-headquartered Bell’s Brewery, which makes clean, efficient use of its water, heat energy and waste. Sutherland is the president of Cherry Republic, a cherry-centric company headquartered in Glen Arbor that has given $2.5 million over its 30 years in support of clean energy, farms, recreation and youth development.
Join Bell, Sutherland and MEC President/CEO Conan Smith in our next Capitol Connection. They'll discuss the environmental efforts of their businesses, the power of the Great Lakes Business Network and why bringing the business community into environmental efforts is important for the movement and a good, ethical, sensical practice.
The Capitol Connection webinar series is generously sponsored by Steve and Judy Dobson.