Announcements

September 25, 2009

Discover new ways to prosper at the Green Business Conference

Green Business Conference—Register and Save $120

Our Green Business Conference has hit the social networking world—and Twitter postings from Whole Foods to lawyers are calling it an excellent program and a must-attend event.

We have designed the conference to help you discover new ways to prosper in the new economy—from new social networking tools to accessing the stimulus dollars.

We have gathered together a great group of speakers: Libby Reder of eBay; Theresa Marquez of Organic Valley Family of Farms; Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins of Green For All; Margot Fraser of Birkenstock USA; Joshua Onysko of Pangea Organics; Gil Friend, author of The Truth About Green Business; Woody Tasch author of Slow Money; Bob Johansen, author of Leaders Make the Future; Priya Haji of World of Good; Bryan Welch of Ogden Publishing; and others.

Last chance to save $120 »

Climate Ride

Climate Ride's '09 Rally

Green America has a Climate Ride team in the five-day ride from New York City to Washington, D.C. starting on Sept. 26. The ride ends at Capitol Hill on Sept. 30 with a rally and people can join the last 16 miles of the ride to the finish.

The rally on the Capitol's West Lawn at 4 p.m. will outline bold legislative action for climate change and renewable energy. Guest speakers include Alisa Gravitz, Bracken Hendricks, Betsy Taylor, and members of Congress.

Get more information on Climate Ride »

or e-mail info@climateride.org

Green Festival crowds

Green Festival Comes to Washington DC and San Francisco

Washington DC – Oct 10-11
San Francisco – Nov. 13-14-15

Inspiring speakers, green living and energy tips, and great green products will highlight this fall’s Green Festivals. Speakers include Ed Begley, Jr., Dr. Cornel West, Lester Brown, Amy Goodman, John Robbins, Lynne Twist, John Perkins, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Dolores Huerta, and hundreds of others.

The events feature the Hemp Products Pavilion, Fair Trade Pavilion, Green Home Pavilion, green films, kids’ zone, organic food/beer/wine garden, and workshops on everything from composting to green jobs. Over 700 Green Business Network members will be exhibiting their products—and making it a great place to do green holiday shopping and grow the green economy.

Check out the festivals »
A limited number of booths are available—call 877-727-2179 x 300

Hundreds of Members Participate in Stimulus Webinar—See it online!

“The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: A Webinar for Small Businesses and Nonprofits” attracted over 400 green businesses to learn about the opportunities on accessing money for their businesses from the Recovery Act.

Green America, along with Green For All, Tides Center, and Association for Enterprise Opportunity, sponsored the webinar, which featured speakers from the Department of Energy and the Small Business Administration.

The webinar highlighted emerging opportunities to leverage stimulus dollars and provided examples of best practices from across the country. It also covered the new Capital Access Program (CAP) that will create, sustain and scale green jobs in the US and increase capacity of businesses and nonprofits as leaders in the green economy.

If you missed it, access the presentation here »

Fair Trade Month and Reverse Trick-or-Treating

Green America is again teaming up with Global Exchange to present reverse trick-or-treating, in which children reverse the Halloween tradition by handing Fair Trade chocolate back to their neighbors. Last year more than 47,000 households learned about Fair Trade chocolate thanks to Fair Trade trick-or-treaters.

Learn how to participate »

To learn more about how your business can participate in Fair Trade Month, contact FairTrade@GreenAmericaToday.org, and we will provide you with materials and training for Fair Trade media outreach.

Better Paper Project Magazine Promo

Green America’s Better Paper Project Partners with Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble stores nationwide are partnering this month with Green America’s Better Paper Project and Next Steps Marketing to promote magazines using recycled paper on special magazine racks in over 240 of their largest stores.

Ten magazines participating in this month’s promotion include: Tricycle, Mother Jones, Natural Home, Make, Miller-McCune, Mothering, VegNews, Grit, Stanford Social Innovation Review and The American Prospect. In this second year, 33 magazines have taken part in this Barnes & Noble promotion.

Socially Responsible Retirement Plans through Social(k)

Get easy online access to the nation’s most diverse socially responsible 401(k), 403(b), and profit-sharing plans with Social(k), a full-service retirement program committed to working with companies looking to make a positive impact on local and global communities. Social(k) provides employees of both companies and organizations access to more than 150 socially responsible investment (SRI) funds, in addition to 25 faith-based and 4,000 traditional funds (most other retirement plans only offer one or two SRI funds).

Social(k) offers retirement plans ranging from single-person operations to multi-location, multi-million dollar companies.

Founder and president Rob Thomas will be at the upcoming Green Business Conference and will be happy to set up a time to review your company’s needs.

Social(k) is a member of Green America, 1% for the Planet, the Organic Trade Association, and B Corporation. They donate 8.5% of pre-tax gross profits to charity, including Heifer International which gives a gift bee hive for each plan every year your company plan is with Social(k).

To learn more, call (800)243-9362 or visit www.socialk.com »