BrightTALK is hosting a five-day green business summit this week, featuring several free webcasts on green building.  The webcasts run from April 21 to 24.  Each day features a different topic related to green business:

• Tuesday, April 21 - Water Management
• Wednesday, April 22 - Green Building
• Thursday, April 23 - Green IT
• Friday, April 24 - Green Marketing

Some of the highlighted speakers include:

• Peter Williams, CTO of IBM Big Green Innovations - “Water and Information Management” at the Water Management Summit
• Barry Hooper, San Francisco Private Sector Green Building Program - “Building & Operating Green in 2009 - Challenges and Successes in SF” at the Green Building Summit
• Pat Tiernan, Executive Director of Climate Savers Computing Initiative - “The IT Power Problem, simple actions to improve your business” at the Green IT Summit
• Joel Makower, Chairman and Executive Editor of Greener World Media - “Save the Buyosphere! Selling Green in the Age of More, More, MORE” at the Green Marketing Summit

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MIT is hosting a sustainability summit as a cap to Earth Week.  The summit will be entirely student-organized, and is entitled, “Discovering New Dimensions for Growth.”  The Sustainability Summit will bring together students, business leaders, academics, sustainability activists, and public servants for a day of invited talks, panel discussions and opportunities for informal networking on the subject of how to face the opportunities and challenges of making the transition to a sustainable world.

The theme of the summit, “Discovering New Dimensions for Growth,” explores emerging solutions to the problems of unsustainable development. Current economic, political, and academic institutions, though highly interwoven, mainly work in isolation from each other. Students and practitioners of the field of sustainability are increasingly aware of the opportunities to collaborate to enhance their work on environmental, social, and economic endeavors. The goals are to restore natural systems, create a just and equitable social infrastructure, and revitalize the world’s economies - an incredible challenge that requires collaboration across many previously disparate fields.

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