Business Council for Sustainable Development

The U.S. Business Council for Sustainable Development is a partner organization of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Their mission is worded as follows:

• Creating value through
  • Initiatives that foster sustainable development
  • Networks and partnerships
  • Forums that provide a voice for business
• Approaching sustainable development through
  • Tangible sustainable development projects
  • Networks and partnerships across industry, non-government organizations, academia, and government
  • Domestic voice for business on sustainable development issues

Their web page defines susainable development as:

• Protecting both the industries and the ecosystems that comprise the sources of their materials and markets
• Yielding the benefits of working toward zero-waste
• Enahancing understanding of enviromental costs
• Encouraging long-term rather tha[n] short-term objectives

The members of USBCSD are:

• Alcan
• American Forest and Paper Association
• Baker Botts
• CH2M HILL
• ConocoPhillips
• Dow Chemical Company
• DuPont
• Holcim
• Institute of Electric and Electronics Engineers
• Lafarge
• RETEC Group
• Rohm & Haas
• Shell Oil
• Temple-Inland
• TXU
• URS
• Visteon

• Funding Partnerships:
  • Armstrong Foundation
  • U.S. EPA Gulf of Mexico Program
  • The Home Depot
  • Winrock Foundation
  • McKnight Foundation
  • National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
  • World Business Council for Sustainable Development
  • Bridges to Sustainability
  • Enviromental Defense

• Sustainable Conservation Programs
  • Lower Mississippi Valley Sustainable Forestry Project
  • Texas-Louisiana Longleaf Pine Project
  • Ecosystem Services

contacts

• http://www.usbcsd.org/index.htm
• email: william@usbcsd.org

United States Business Council for Sustainable Development

4425 South Mopac, Bldg. II, Suite 202

Austin, Texas 78735

• phone #:(512)892-6411