Get a head start on Earth Day 2012! Come learn from experts about the financial, social and environmental benefits of greening your business.
San Francisco is one of the greenest cities in North America because of its policies on carbon emissions, energy, land use, buildings, transportation, water, waste, air quality and environmental governance. It performed especially well in the waste category due to mandatory composting and recycling laws.
We are gathering a panel of local business people to speak about this topic.
Moderator: Robin Moorad, Imago Associates, sustainable commercial furniture solutions
Panel:
Beverly Alkire, Green Consultants, San Francisco's first green certified sustainability consulting firm
Anna Frankel, San Francisco Green Business Program
Kim Stevens, Living Room Events, a full-service, restaurant-style caterer specializing in premium events and a San Francisco Green business.
Ellen Weinreb, Weinreb Group, Sustainability recruiting and a Green Certified biz for Alameda County
Special guest: Nell Merlino, Founder and President of Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence, the leading national not-for-profit provider of resources for women to grow their micro businesses into million $ enterprises will be here to talk about the Make Mine a Million $ Business program and how it can help you achieve your business goals. The program reaches women entrepreneurs in communities around the country through events and on-line community. This movement will not only add millions of jobs and billions of dollars of economic activity, but take women to new levels of independence, empowering them to act as economic leaders.