The MN Green Chemistry Forum Happy Hour and Seminar

The Business Case for Chemical Policy Reform

Companies with a vision for sustainable products, packaging and processes are seeking safer chemicals in their supply chains. Safer chemistry and supply chain management help companies meet regulatory and consumer demands for products without chemicals of concern. Chemical regulation, both at the state and federal levels, could provide critical information for downstream businesses and push the marketplace toward safer chemicals. The voices of businesses that can benefit from better chemical regulation are critically needed in chemical policy debates.

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Tickets:

$10.00

Keynote Speakers

David Levine, Co-founder and CEO

American Sustainable Business Council

David has helped build ASBC into a growing coalition of business networks and businesses from its creation in 2009 to the present. ASBC now represents over 165,000 businesses and social enterprises and more than 300,000 entrepreneurs, owners, executive, investors and business professionals.



David has directed the Sustainable Economies Initiative at the Environmental Health Fund where he worked to catalyze interest in green chemistry and innovative sustainable materials, products, processes and businesses. He is a founding partner of Green Harvest Technologies, a business working on producing sustainable biobased consumer products.



He has worked as a social entrepreneur for over 30 years focusing on the development of whole systems solutions for a more sustainable society through building strategic partnerships and broad stakeholders initiatives.

Ally LaTourelle, Esq., VP for Government Affairs

BioAmber

Ally LaTourelle is the VP of government affairs for BioAmber Inc., a renewable chemistry company that uses agricultural crops and transforms them into green chemicals that directly substitute for petrochemicals. She is an attorney, consultant, former financial advisor and former sustainable business owner. Prior to founding her own consulting practice, Earthventure Capital, LaTourelle was the lead business generator for a team in private wealth management at UBS Financial Services. Her work led the team to successful portfolio design strategies merging traditional investment practice with socially responsible investment. LaTourelle assisted the deputy state director in the U.S. Senate office of Hillary Rodham Clinton. She received a J.D. with a concentration in international law from Pace University Law School. Follow her on Twitter at @allylatourelle.