Dow Energy Efficiency Advocate Jane Palmieri Honored with Prestigious Sustainability Award
November 11 2015 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Jane Palmieri, business president, Dow Building &
Construction, a business group of The Dow Chemical Company
(NYSE:DOW), has been selected as a 2015 recipient of Green Building
& Design’s (gb&d’s) Women in Sustainability Leadership
Award.
Green Building & Design, a magazine that promotes leading
green professionals with a mission statement of creating a more
sustainable world, created the awards to celebrate the achievements
of women who are making lasting change in the environmental arena.
In giving the awards, the magazine strives to identify, support and
give opportunities to future women in leadership.
The Nov. 6 edition of gb&d announced this year’s recipients
and Palmieri will be recognized at a ceremony on Nov. 19 in
Washington, D.C.
“We are very proud that Jane is receiving this well-deserved
accolade,” said Neil C. Hawkins, corporate vice president,
EH&S, and chief sustainability officer. “For two decades, Jane
has been a leader in Dow’s commitment to sustainability and energy
efficiency both inside and outside the company – from helping to
develop technologies to lightweight automobiles and make solar
power more accessible, to championing Dow’s energy and climate
change policy proposals.”
Hawkins added that Palmieri’s work strongly aligns with Dow’s
2025 Sustainability Goals, which seek to redefine the role of
business in society by unlocking the potential of people and
science, valuing nature, and collaborating courageously.
Palmieri, whose work at Dow has spanned marketing, sales, new
business development and business operations in several Dow
businesses for 20 years, is grateful for gb&d’s acknowledgment
of her efforts.
“My passion for energy efficiency didn’t truly take hold until I
was involved in the auto industry, focusing on lightweighting
vehicles to improve fuel economy,” Palmieri said. “Once I started
my journey of awareness about the impact that we all have on the
environment, I became compelled to take action. At the root of that
journey is the importance of education and awareness in driving
behavioral systemic change for the good of our planet and future
generations.”
Palmieri currently serves as the industry chairman of the board
for the Alliance to Save Energy, a federation of business,
government, environmental and consumer leaders that advocates the
efficient and clean use of energy worldwide. She also serves on the
board of directors for The Franklin Institute, one of the oldest
centers of science education and development in the United
States.
A member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the
Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Palmieri has served on the board
of directors for the Girl Scouts of America and the board of
trustees for the Chemical Education Foundation (CEF). She is also a
trustee for the Committee for Economic Development (CED).
Industry colleagues previously lauded her work with a Crain’s
Detroit Business 40-Under-40 Award and as one of Automotive News’
100 Leading Women in Automotive, both in 2005.
About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines the power of science and technology to
passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The
Company is driving innovations that extract value from the
intersection of chemical, physical and biological sciences to help
address many of the world's most challenging problems such as the
need for clean water, clean energy generation and conservation, and
increasing agricultural productivity. Dow's integrated, market
driven, industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced
materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad
range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in
approximately 180 countries and in high-growth sectors such as
packaging, electronics, water, coatings and agriculture. In 2014,
Dow had annual sales of more than $58 billion and employed
approximately 53,000 people worldwide. The Company's more than
6,000 product families are manufactured at 201 sites in 35
countries across the globe. References to "Dow" or the "Company"
mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries
unless otherwise expressly noted. More information about Dow can be
found at www.dow.com.
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Dow Building & ConstructionMelissa Jones,
989.636.2228MCJones@dow.comorDow SustainabilityLisa Gill,
989.636.1231LNGill@dow.com
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