Driving Green Growth Opportunities in the East Midlands and EDGGE Forum Launch

The University of Derby is launching the East Midlands Driving Green Growth Ecosystems (EDGGE) Forum on Thursday 10 December, from 8:30am to 11:30am in Room CB2.07 of The Cavendish Building on Agard Street. It's a business breakfast, so it's designed for people to come along, grab some food, and talk shop before the proper working day kicks in.

The forum is part of the wider green growth ecosystem the university is building across the region. It follows on from their annual Sustainability and CSR Conference, which they run with the East Midlands Chamber over at the main Kedleston Road campus. If you've been following that, this is the next step in the sequence.

They're pitching it at companies dealing with the internal and external pressures of green growth — the kind of thing that comes up when you're trying to grow a business while keeping an eye on your environmental footprint. The aim is to help businesses balance commercial expansion with acting for nature, and to get a pro-environmental business network back on its feet. It's less of a lecture and more of a meeting point for people who are already thinking about this stuff.

Representatives from the pro-environmental business support community are expected to be there, so the morning is as much about the people in the room as the talking. The idea is to get those initial conversations started between the support organisations and the businesses themselves. It runs from 8:30am to 11:30am on Thursday 10 December in Room CB2.07, The Cavendish Building, Agard Street, Derby, DE1 1DZ.