Printer-Friendly Version
Email This Page
Contact Us
Join OnlineEmail using our web-based e-mail form or call us at 1-202-872-5330.
Learn more about credit card processing »
Learn more about credit card processing »
Business Network News
March 14, 2008
Green Collar Jobs Profiled at The Dream Reborn Conference
Green For All is producing a groundbreaking conference in Memphis next month, The Dream Reborn. Featured speakers include Van Jones and Majora Carter, founder of Sustainable South Bronx and Green for All. The green business community is asked to support this effort to create an equitable green economy. Fifty thousand people are expected by the Memphis Visitors Center to commemorate the Dr. King legacy weekend.
Majora Carter will be a featured speaker at the upcoming Chicago Green Festival, addressing the Green For All agenda.
There are several ways green businesses can participate at The Dream Reborn Conference:
- Underwrite a youth scholarship
- Provide your green products in gift bags of conscious items to 1,000 attendees or provide hotel room products. The Memphis Marriott is arranging for green shampoo/or other hotel products in a gift bag in peoples' rooms.
- Exhibitor booths are available.
Call 510-663-6500 x308
Find out more at
www.dreamreborn.org »
NativeEnergy Funds Wind Turbine in Colorado
NativeEnergy
will fund the construction of a wind turbine in the small town of Wray, Colorado. The project began when Wray’s school district decided to build the turbine in response to economic hardships, hoping the development would push the town into a bustling clean energy economy, while reducing their annual energy costs.
The school district ran out of funding and Native Energy stepped in to ensure completion of the project. Native Energy is a leading marketer of high quality carbon offsets and renewable energy credits. Tom Boucher, president and CEO, describes the partnership, “This demonstrates our commitment to supporting only high-quality projects that have both a positive impact on the environment and the community.”
Native Energy will be at the upcoming Green Business Conference and Green Festivals to help your business become carbon neutral.
Learn more »
Faces of Green Pages – Conversation with today’s Green Business Leaders
David Bronner, great grandson of Dr. Bronner shares their company history as they celebrate 150 years of business, in the Green America Green Business Profile. Visit Green America’s Faces of the Green Pages to find out their ‘secret to success.’ David is the fifth-generation Bronner in a family that has been making all-natural soaps for 150 years on two continents!
Help Save the Ontario Boreal Forest
One of the last great intact forests on earth has been targeted by logging and mining interests. Please sign the Green America business leaders' letter to the Ontario government and help protect the Boreal Forest, the Woodland Caribou and local communities. This action is reminiscent of the 2000 Great Bear Rainforest campaign in British Columbia which successfully protected the targeted forest.
Sign the business letter to the Ontario government »
The Re-launch of Organic Style
Organic Style Magazine published from 2001-2005 by Rodale Press has been purchased by Organic Bouquet. Under new ownership, the online magazine will spotlight eco-living, fashion, gardening and travel stories.
New Leaf Does It Again!
New Leaf Paper announces New Leaf Imagination 100. Made with 100% post-consumer recycled content and no chlorine bleach it is FSC certified and Ancient Forest Friendly.
Under the Canopy in Eco-Fashion Show
Under the Canopy will participate in the 2008 Think Vitality Fashion Show, in Anaheim at Natural Products West. The show brings 20 of the world’s top natural industry executives to promote the message that a healthy lifestyle can prevent illness and disease. The event benefits Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world’s largest breast cancer research organization and prevention advocate.