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Sustainable Business Summit Sponsorship Opportunities
There are many ways your company or organization can become involved with the 5th Anniversary Sustainable Business Summit. For more information, please review the Sponsor Prospectus. If you choose to be a sponsor, please download the Sponsor Commitment form and attach with your gift. For more information, please contact Jena Locke or Sally Anderson or call 615-242-8856.
Thanks for your involvement!
2012 Sponsorship Levels
- Janine Benyus Keynote Luncheon Presenting Sponsor ~ $15,000
- Sustainable Business Leadership Awards Presenting Sponsor ~ $10,000
- Networking Reception Sponsor ~ $7,500
- Platinum Sponsor ~ $5,000
- Gold Sponsor ~ $2,500
- Coffee Bar Sponsor ~ $2,000
- Silver Sponsor ~ $1,000
2012 Summit Sponsors
Sustainable Business Leadership Awards Presenting Sponsor
In the Americas, Nissan's operations include automotive styling, engineering, consumer and corporate financing, sales and marketing, distribution and manufacturing. Nissan is dedicated to improving the environment under the Nissan Green Program 2016 and was recognized as an ENERGY STAR® Parter of the Year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2010 and 2011.
www.nissanusa.com
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Platinum Sponsor - $5,000
Eastman's chemicals, fibers and plastics are used as key ingredients in products that people use everyday. Eastman employees around the world blend expertise and innovation to deliver practical solutions. The company is commited to economic growth, environmental stewardship and social responsibility. A global company headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA, Eastman had 2011 sales of $7.2 billion.
www.eastman.com
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Founded in 1939 as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest generator of electricity, Nashville Electric Service is one of the 12 largest public utlities in the U.S. serving more than 360,000 customers with annual revenues over $1.1 billion per year.
www.nespower.com
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Gold Sponsors - $2,500
www.naturalawakeningsmag.com
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Tuck-Hinton Architects is a full service design firm offering architectural, interior design, and planning expertise. The firm was founded in 1984 with the commitment to provide an outstanding level of both creative design and client service. We enjoy working with creative clients that embrace the larger community and the environment.
www.tuck-hinton.com
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Energy Source Partners provides the design, financing, installation, management and support for all aspects of the solar energy system. Through ESP’s BrightWay Solar Power Purchase Agreement, customers get a renewable energy solution tailored to provide low-cost electricity with long-term pricing stability, a smaller carbon footprint and a greener public image.
www.energysourcepartners.com
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For more than 40 years, Gresham, Smith and Partners has focused on enhancing quality of life and sustainability within communities. GS&P consistently ranks among the top A/E firms in the U.S. by providing solutions for the built environment that contrinute to the success of clients across a multitude of industries.
www.gspnet.com
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Stites & Harbison is a preeminent law firm based in strategic Southeastern locations and sought by business and institutional clients nationwide for sophisticated transactions, difficult litigation and complex regulatory matters. Our offices are located in Nashville and Franklin, Tennessee; Louisville, Lexington and Frankfort, Kentucky; Atlanta, Georgia; Alexandria, Virginia; and Jeffersonville, Indiana.
www.stites.com
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Coffee Bar Sponsor - $2,000
Founded in Nashville in 2006, LightWave Solar is the largest area installer of residential and commercial solar PV systems in Tennessee. To date LightWave Solar has desigined and installed nearly 200 solar PV across the state, including the nearly complete 1 MW solar farm in Memphis, which will be the largest single-axis tracking system in Tennssee.
www.lightwavesolarelectric.com
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Silver Sponsors - $1,000
ESa provides design services to clients around the country in architecture, interior architecture, master planning and space planning. The 51-year-old firm’s projects include healthcare facilities, hospitality venues, public spaces, senior living communities, educational facilities and corporate office. A member of the National USGBC, ESa has 27 LEED Accredited staff.
www.esarch.com
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Pinnacle Financial Partners, the largest bank headquartered in Nashville, offers clients distinctive services and effective advice from seasoned professionals. Pinnacle provides a full range of banking, investment, mortgage and insurance products and services. Comprehensive wealth management services, including financial planning and trust, help clients increase, protect and distribute their assets.
www.pnfp.com
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Piedmont Natural Gas is an energy services company primarily engaged in the distribution of natural gas to more than one million residential, commercial and industrial utility customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, including 51,800 customers served by municipalities who are wholesale customers. Our subsidiaries are invested in joint venture, energy-related businessess, including unregulated retail natural gas marketing, interstate natural gas storage and intrastate natural gas transportation.
www.piedmontng.com
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Ingram Barge Company (Ingram) has been a quality marine transporter on America's inland waterways since 1946. Ingram transports coal, aggregates, grain, fertilizer, ores, alloys, steel and chemicals with a fleet of more than 100 tow boats and nearly 400 barges. Ingram transports large quantities of vital resources to help keep our nation running, ease congestion on the highways and create jobs. Ingram Barge Company, with over a centuary and a half serving the country's transportation needs, is the perfect example of why America's waterways transportation systems is growing and the country is benefitting both economically and environmentally. Recent transportation studies concluded that ton for ton, barges have fewer accidents, consumer less energy, produce fewer harmful emissions and are less disruptive to society in general. One gallon of fuel can move one ton of cargo, 155 miles by truck, 413 miles by train, and 575 miles by water.
www.ingrambarge.com
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Smith Seckman Reid, Inc. is an engineering design and facility consulting firm. Success and growth in the engineering industry has allowed us to develop a strong reputation for SSR's commissioning division, SSRCx. In a few short years, SSRCx has developed into a national leader in the building commissioning services industry.
www.ssr-inc.com www.ssrcx.com
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greenSTUDIO is a group of design professionals dedicated to providing sound guidance to facility owners, managers, developers and design teams on sustainable design practices in an efficient and comprehensive manner with a goal of balancing economic, social, and environmental costs and benefits.
www.greenstudio.us
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www.tennessee.gov/environment
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Friend Sponsors - $500
Trane, a business of Ingersoll Rand - the world leader in creating and sustaining safe, comfortable and energy efficient environments - improves the performances of buildings, around the world. Trane solutions opitomize indoor environments with a broad portfolio of energy efficient heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems, building and contracting services, parts support and advanced controls.
www.trane.com
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Additional Sponsors
www.usgbcmidtn.com www.huttonhotel.com
Hotel room for Ms. Benyus provided by The Hutton Hotel, courtesy of U.S. Green Building Council Middle Tennessee.
