Sustainability Assessment Symposium 2010 introductions by Jenny Pope, Director and principal consultant of Integral Sustainability http://integral-sustainability.net/)and Barry Sadlier
http://vivbizclub.com/blog/2010/02/02/bagasse/ - What's up everybody - We're coming at you here live from the Viv Biz Club offices in San Francisco, and today we want to talk Bagasse.
We'd like to give y'all a quick overview of bagasse and bagasse food packaging products and then give y'all 3 quick reasons why we're fans of bagasse food packaging.
So here it is - Bagasse, if you don't know, is a discarded by product of the sugarcane production process. Essentially, sugarcane when it's brought to a plant to be processed is squeezed for its juice and the left over remaining fibrous material is bagasse. Bagasse has been traditionally just discarded or it has been used a fuel in some plants to power the sugarcane production facilities, but unfortunately as part of being used as a fuel it does create some pollutants in the atmosphere.
Today, bagasse is being used as food packaging, and here are the 3 quick reasons why we are fans of bagasse food packaging.
#1 - Sustainability. Bagasse comes from ...
Phil Lempert, supermarket guru, rates new foods and assigns each a rating based on: taste, health, ingredients, appearance, sustainability, preparation, packaging and value.
Watch this entertaining video and see why so many people, including celebrities, professional athletes and billionaires like LinkedIn. With more than 70 million members in 200 different countries, LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com is the world's largest professional network. Not only is LinkedIn great for building a professional network, but it is also recommended by social media professionals to increase search engine optimization, also known as SEO. Here are a few tips to search engine optimize your LinkedIn profile. First, complete your profile with search engine optimized keywords. Second, customize the URL to your LinkedIn profile with your name or your company's name. Third, be sure to include the maximum amount of allowed hyperlinks in your profile. LinkedIn is one of the best sites to take advantage of to improve your SEO. Sign up for LinkedIn today, complete your free professional profile and watch your search engine rankings increase. To join LinkedIn, visit http://www.linkedin.com This video brought to you by Jennings Social Media Marketing, a global company located in Kansas City, Missouri. http://www.jenningssocialmedia.com Jennings Social Media Marketing http://www.jenningssocialmedia.com is a full service company that utilizes the art of online storytelling with the science of measuring quantifiable results. Jennings creates comprehensive social media marketing and Web advertising strategies from website design and development to viral videos. The company represents publicly traded to medium-sized businesses across the U.S. and overseas including technology, sports, sustainability, entertainment, travel, financial, health care and real estate. Follow Valerie Jennings, founder and CEO of Jennings Social Media Marketing, on Twitter @valeriejennings To view Valerie Jennings' LinkedIn profile, visit http://www.linkedin.com/in/jenningspr
Phil Lempert, supermarket guru, rates new foods and assigns each a rating based on: taste, health, ingredients, appearance, sustainability, preparation, packaging and value.
Corporate Social Responsibility News: Cummins Launches Sustainability Web Site; Salesforce Wins Two "Stevie" Awards for Innovation and CSR Program Distributed by Tubemogul.
Phil Lempert, supermarket guru, rates new foods and assigns each a rating based on: taste, health, ingredients, appearance, sustainability, preparation, packaging and value.
Silicon Valley Technology, Art, Green & Sustainability talk show with host and Executive Producer Heather Durham. Episode guests are Debbie Mytels from environmental organization Acterra’s “Be the Change” leadership program, and Jim Smith from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. In this show we cover programs to help do home improvements free or at low cost available to residents of San Jose, and other Bay Area cities. One program is a window replacement program through Sacred Heart Community Center that is subsidized for low income and/or people that have lost their jobs. Acterra has been doing Environmental programs for 40 years in Palo Alto. They and other organizations like the BAQMD team up to bring programs to the citizens of San Jose. The “Be the Change” environmental leadership program trains emerging leaders in the skills needed to take action within the places where they work, live, worship, and play to "green" our world from the inside out.
http://www.TourismTV.co.uk Dalby Forest Visitor Centre On the 2nd of April 2007 the new eco-friendly visitor centre officially opened. This building is one of the Forestry CommissionâÂÂs first visitor centres with sustainability as its main focus
http://www.TourismTV.co.uk Dalby Forest Visitor Centre On the 2nd of April 2007 the new eco-friendly visitor centre officially opened. This building is one of the Forestry CommissionâÂÂs first visitor centres with sustainability as its main focus
Fairfood International is a non-profit campaign and lobby organisation, which encourages the food and beverage industry to increase the level of sustainability of its products. In this way, Fairfood contributes to the fight against hunger and poverty across the globe.
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Lex Coors presentation explores the likely impact of the impending Carbon Reduction Committee legislation on organisations that operate or outsource their data centre infrastructure. Lex takes the opportunity to outline potential developments in energy efficiency measurement based on his involvement with the Uptime Institute Europe, European Commission DG Joint Research Committee on Sustainability, The Green Grid and the European Data Centre Code of Conduct Metrics Group.
Dr. Robert Patterson, Chiropractor & Internal Health Specialist of Overland Chiropractic http://overlandchiro.com/blog assesses how social media marketing has helped his busy, Overland Park, Kansas practice gain maximum exposure. Dr. Patterson first began working with Jennings Social Media Marketing http://www.jenningssocialmedia.com about six months ago and has utilized a range of Jennings' services including viral videos, website design and development, search engine optimization, social networking site management, blog posts & graphic design. Overland Chiropractic has already seen measurable results which they continue to track, such as an increase in e-newsletter subscribers, increased website and blog traffic, increased Twitter followers and TV interviews. Jennings Social Media Marketing booked Dr. Robert Patterson for an interview on one of Kansas City's local news channels, FOX 4. According to Dr. Patterson, "Valerie (CEO of Jennings) is very high energy; she really keeps things moving. I need somebody to push me and to give me deadlines and she does that." Dr. Patterson views Jennings Social Media Marketing as an extension of his staff and looks forward to a long term relationship. Jennings Social Media Marketing http://www.jenningssocialmedia.com is a full service company that utilizes the art of online storytelling with the science of measuring quantifiable results. Jennings creates comprehensive social media marketing and Web advertising strategies from website design and development to viral videos. The company represents publicly traded to medium-sized businesses across the U.S. and overseas including technology, sports, sustainability, entertainment, travel, financial, health care and real estate. For more information on Jennings Social Media Marketing, please visit http://www.jenningssocialmedia.com For more information on Overland Chiropractic and Dr. Robert Patterson, please visit http://overlandchiro.com/blog
Silicon Valley Technology, Art, Green & Sustainability talk show with host and Executive Producer Heather Durham. Episode guests are Chris Valverde from the Sheet Metal Workers Local 104 union and Jane Jerome from the company Green Wren. In this show Jane and Chris talk about the green building industry, new technologies, educational topics and art from metal. Chris explains how people are enrolled in the Sheet Metal Workers Local 104. He tells us of some of the amazing work that the apprentices have done for their employers over the years. One of those projects is the Lucas Films facilities trellis in the San Francisco Presidio location. Others are some big name tech companies that have some nice metal work touches at their facilities. Jane gives us an overview of green technologies in the building industry. She tells us of some new amazing products that builders/contractors are using. She also briefly talks about solar and energy. Both of these guests are experts in their area and SVTAGS hopes to have then back at a later date.
Silicon Valley Technology, Art, Green & Sustainability talk show with host and Executive Producer Heather Durham. Episode guest is Michaela Marek, founder of Eucalyptus Magazine, a SF bay area resource for green and health-conscious lifestyles. On this show we explore the topics of Eucalyptus Magazine and the founder’s vision for the publication. Michaela tells us of her background, why she started the magazine and the plans for its future. Some of her past issues focus on yoga, health, culture in Silicon Valley with an Indian Dance Troop, fitness/health, sustainability, and eco-fashion. Her vision is very much like ours at SVTAGS and this was a good start to collaboration between our two media companies.
Silicon Valley Technology, Art, Green & Sustainability talk show with host and Executive Producer Heather Durham. Episode guests are contractor Iris F. Harrell and filmmaker Pam Walton. The documentary “The Forever Home: Going Green” is the story of the remodeling of Iris Harrell and Ann Benson's beautiful home in Portola Valley, California, and was produced by Pam Walton, noted for her film “Raging Grannies.” Iris has built and redesigned hundreds of homes for others, and now, her own home was going to be touched by some of her magic. Pam was there to catch it all as they greened up the home, and we talked about this process on the show. It’s really fun to see someone, that has been in their career for over 25 years, get excited about their own personal project in their field. In clips of the documentary clips shown within this episode, Iris and her partner Ann are both beaming like school girls with excitement. The house itself is amazingly beautiful and for some—they would be amazed that it’s green, because so many people think that green is not going to be aesthetically pleasing. This house is over the top in the gorgeous design details.
Silicon Valley Technology, Art, Green & Sustainability talk show with host and Executive Producer Heather Durham. Episode guest is Eric Drew the founder of the Eric Drew Foundation, a non-profit charity organization to help all Leukemia patients with the financial and emotional hardships faced by people suffering from this disease. This has to be one of the most amazing people I have ever met. Eric Drew is a leukemia and identity theft survivor. He was a normal six foot tall guy traveling the world for business. Came home and wanted to settle down, maybe have a family. After a year at home, while giving blood was normal in that year, this one time they said something is wrong. He went to Stanford and they sent him home to die, six moths maybe. He amazingly had a half sister that he only met a year before and she was a half match for bone marrow. It did not take and they wanted to send him home again, but this time he was in Seattle. Now, as he was determined to find a way to live, he found out someone there at the hospital was stealing his identity- and no one believed him. He got himself out of bed, got the evidence he needed for the police and the FBI to get involved… and the rest, as they say, is history. His case was the first ever tried under the new HIPAA laws, the first case to be won. He has survived also as the first ever double stem cell transfer.
Silicon Valley Technology, Art, Green & Sustainability talk show with host and Executive Producer Heather Durham. Episode guest is Halfdan Hussey, Director and Co-Founder of the Cinequest Film Festival. A global company set in the Silicon Valley, Cinequest’s uniqueness and impact results from being ahead of the curve, whether it comes to discovering or producing original voices, showcasing new technology, or reinventing the very definition of film distribution and marketing. We talked about the movie industry: how it has changed the convergence of animation and the digital explosion of film; the new technology in 3D animation and how much easier it has become since the festival started 20 years ago. We also talked about the most famous people that have been to the film festival in San Jose and who might be his favorite guests there, as well as, the Mavericks of the film industry that have shown up to received awards such as Deepak Chopra. Mr. Chopra was at this 2010 Cinequest receiving the Life Time Maverick award and SVTAGS was there to grab an interview with him. We aired this interview for the first time on this episode and it’s also posted on YouTube.
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Earning the right to be a Certified Green Consultant does not come from an easy desire to make a difference. The Green revolution in 2010 has a lot of pieces, but a small number of people can put the whole puzzle together. After hearing about Green jobs for almost two years, people looking for a career as a sustainability officer or Green consultant might now be eligible for a single block grant program that is obtainable to those who complete a straightforward application process. The Green Business League is delighted to proclaim the commitment of $150,000 that can be useful to earning a certification as a Certified Green Consultant(TM) or a Certified Sustainability Officer(TM).
Silicon Valley Technology, Art, Green & Sustainability talk show with host and Executive Producer Heather Durham. Episode guests are Melinda Cheel and Alexia Marcous of the Green Chamber of Commerce. The Green Chamber of Commerce has been in the San Francisco Bay Area for less than two years. They host three events a month in Marin, San Francisco and the Oakland/Berkley areas. They are not wanting to add a 4th event to this mix a month in the “South Bay” or as most people know it Silicon Valley. This group vets its members and does not let just anyone that “says they are green” into their Chamber. You must answer questions on what you are doing to make your business green or to help others with this quest. Melinda Cheel is working part-time as the Executive Director with plans to have her move into full-time in the next year. Currently, they have over 200 members right and are sure to expand this with the plans to come to the South Bay. The Green Chamber is managed also by a volunteer board and Alexia Marcous is one of those board members. She and her father started an online payment service, Dharma Merchant Services, that gives back part of its proceeds to the non-profit of your choice. All the board members have sustainability, environment or green in their business mix or background.
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Earning the right to be a Certified Green Consultant does not come from an easy desire to make a difference. The Green revolution in 2010 has a lot of pieces, but a small number of people can put the whole puzzle together. After hearing about Green jobs for almost two years, people looking for a career as a sustainability officer or Green consultant might now be eligible for a single block grant program that is obtainable to those who complete a straightforward application process. The Green Business League is delighted to proclaim the commitment of $150,000 that can be useful to earning a certification as a Certified Green Consultant(TM) or a Certified Sustainability Officer(TM).
Meet the professionals at Jennings Social Media Marketing http://www.jenningssocialmedia.com, a global company located in Kansas City, Missouri. This Jennings Social Media Marketing summer promo video features Valerie Jennings, entrepreneur and CEO of Jennings Social Media Marketing, the VP of Social Media Research & Development, the VP of Website Design & Development and Jennings' Social Media Marketing Manager. Jennings Social Media Marketing http://www.jenningssocialmedia.com is a full service company that utilizes the art of online storytelling with the science of measuring quantifiable results. Jennings creates comprehensive social media marketing and Web advertising strategies from Web site design and development to viral videos. The company represents publicly traded to medium-sized businesses across the U.S. and overseas including technology, sports, sustainability, entertainment, travel, financial, health care and real estate. For more information, please visit http://www.jenningssocialmedia.com
http://www.balancezoneinvesting.net Retirement security and income sustainability are the goals of BalanceZone Investing. Our approach of More SAFE and Less RISK with our safe-to-risk objective management tools drive success.
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http://www.endofsuburbia.com/
Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their new found wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of life become embedded in the American consciousness.
Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream.
But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, some scientists and policy makers argue in this documentary.
The consequences of inaction in the face of this global crisis are enormous. What does Oil Peak mean for North America? As energy prices skyrocket in the coming years, how will the populations of suburbia react to the collapse of their dream? Are today's suburbs destined to become the slums of tomorrow? And what can be done NOW, individually and collectively, to avoid The End of Suburbia ?
Silicon Valley Technology, Art, Green & Sustainability talk show with host and Executive Producer Heather Durham. “Legacy Through Giving” is a charitable organization in the San Francisco Bay Area that takes sustainability to a new level by helping many. There are 14 non-profits that benefit from Legacy Through Giving. They do an annual fashion show fundraiser that helps these smaller non-profits survive. Cocoa Jeans importer, Tish Hear, was on this show along with Reputation Clothes founder/designer Amanda Rodriguiz, Far East Living founder/designer Esther Yei Shih, and the founder of Legacy Michael Chang. When we first talked about having them on the show they asked if they could bring a few models to show some of the clothes and I agreed. Next thing we knew, there was about 20 models in the studio, all volunteering their time, to help promote Legacy Through Giving. This was a fun show to produce and more complicated than most of the other shows because of the logistics.
Silicon Valley Technology, Art, Green & Sustainability talk show with host and Executive Producer Heather Durham. Episode guest is Jerold O’Brien of the Silver Mountain Winery. This winery located in the Santa Cruz mountains has been doing green and organic before there was a term coined for either! Jerold O'Brien has a fundamental concern for the environment and is a proponent of sustainable and organic practices for viticulture and other food sources. The winery property was bought in 1973, built and opened by 1979 and then the Loma Prieta Earthquake hit. After the clean up, they’ve been battling to keep the doors open for tastings on Saturdays. The wine is some of the best in California and you don’t have to worry that the footprint it takes to make this wine is a lot, they do not use extra water (just what mother nature provides), they have installed solar this past year, employ organically approved and naturally occurring substances in all vineyard applications, which means that no chemical herbicides, insecticides, fungicides or synthetic fertilizers are used.
This is an educational video based on a presentation given to University of Oregon Business School Students and Faculty, by Eric Christian Smith. It focuses on the trends and changes in Virtual Office technology, the communications tools currently used, and the advancements of Sococo (Social Communications Company) which help improve the future of business and personal communications. The presentation shares the vision of how existing tools can increase their availability in one platform, and discusses new opportunities for people to improve their own personal vision.
As Twitter continues to make national headlines, companies are racing to search engine optimize their tweets, and now with Googles real time search there are different ways to get ahead of the conversation.
In the latest video from Jennings Social Media Marketing, how to search engine optimize (SEO) tweets. Google real time search updates as stuff is happening around the web-for example, live tweets, Yahoo Answers, news articles and web pages now stream in on the actual results pages for your query. Search engine optimization twitter tools used for real time search include Twitterfall, Trendistic, and Tweetbeep. Mike Dobbs from mashable.com gives the top ten twitter SEO tips that are out of this world.
Jennings Social Media Marketing http://www.jenningssocialmedia.com is a full service company that utilizes the art of online storytelling with the science of measuring quantifiable results. Jennings provides comprehensive social media marketing strategies from Web design and development to viral Web videos and represents publicly traded to medium-sized businesses, across the U.S. and overseas. These businesses include technology, sports, sustainability, entertainment, travel, financial, health care and real estate.
Description: One of four scenarios exploring what the world will be like for the fashion industry in 2025. A world of political collaboration and global trade. âÂÂSlow fashionâ is in vogue, and high street brands compete on sustainability credentials. People own fewer, but higher quality clothes. Author: Forum for the Future Copyright: Forum for the Future/Levi Strauss and Co. www.forumforthefuture.org/projects/fashion-futures
Phil Lempert, supermarket guru, rates new foods and assigns each a rating based on: taste, health, ingredients, appearance, sustainability, preparation, packaging and value.
The White Dog Cafe is a local favorite in Philadelphia's University City. It's known for it's unique blend of contemporary American Cuisine, civic engagement and environmental sustainability. It's close to University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University.
Phil Lempert, supermarket guru, rates new foods and assigns each a rating based on: taste, health, ingredients, appearance, sustainability, preparation, packaging and value.
Paula Knudsen's heart passion led her to form a 501(c)(3) organization in mere weeks, initiate the National Food Drive with the US Post Office and create THE FRUMPLE FACTORY, INC® to support her humanitarian projects and those of HUB (Humanity Unites Brilliance), a global community of like-minded individuals committed to creating opportunity, sustainability and positive change. Paula has taught and spoken out about the possibility of a sustainable end to hunger in cities all over the world, and has been featured in The Boston Globe, Family Circle, New Age Journal, The New York Times and in many other print, radio and TV venues, including Liz Walker's news program (where Paula was honored with Liz Walker's Angel Award). She also won a Boston Parent Advocate Award and acknowledgment from the Massachusetts House of Representatives for her work toward a sustainable end to hunger. See the FRUMPLES! Visit www.BlessedBlast.com and www.Frumples.HubHub.org.
What can a 9-year-old teach us about sustainability? Ask Carrick McCullough's dad, Colin from Our Renewable Nation, whose family values include teaching sustainability. Colin, his wife and their two boys traveled cross country in a veggie powered Beetle visiting renewable energy sites and sustainable companies to create a series of eco-videos for kids.
http://www.speakerscorner.co.uk/ Tim Smit is a brilliant keynote speaker on areas such as leadership, corporate social responsibility, sustainability, business and motivation. Book Tim now
As part of the European Jewish Funds' Paideia Project Incubator 2009 - a program for activists and entrepreneurs for Jewish culture who want to develop new projects in various fields - Poppy Berelowitz coordinates campaigns revolving around environmental and social action issues in Britain.
After noticing that other faiths in her community were speaking out about the environment, Poppy decided to fill the void of Jewish voice on the subject. Addressing topics such as tzedakah, fairtrade, and sustainability, Poppy's online initiative, the Big Green Jewish Website, is helping Jews living in the UK to connect not only to their Judaism but also give back to the environment.
A production of http://www.leadel.net, a project of The European Jewish Congress (http://www.eurojewcong.org) and made possible thanks to its President Moshe Kantor. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Phil Lempert, supermarket guru, rates new foods and assigns each a rating based on: taste, health, ingredients, appearance, sustainability, preparation, packaging and value.
BroadView reported from the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit for PwC. Its leading experts in sustainability were able to provide clients and media contacts with insight and briefings to ensure the firm was positioned as a leading expert in the field.
Phil Lempert, supermarket guru, rates new foods and assigns each a rating based on: taste, health, ingredients, appearance, sustainability, preparation, packaging and value.
Intelligent Software's virtual cities are the perfect place to test a population's response to policies, products and prices. Our Behavioural Business Intelligence and multi-award winning platform SimulAIt allow you to observe, predict outcomes and explore ways to influence them. The use of any resource depends on peoples' behaviour. How often a product is used, for how long, and for what purpose determines that product's environmental footprint. For improved sustainability outcomes, we need to understand people. That's where SimulAlt comes in. The real world is complex, dynamic, non-linear, and Human-centric, but our software can help you make sense of it. Households, business people and regulators- each group responds differently to policies, products and prices. Our systems integrate social, economic, environmental data and behaviours for accurate predictions of public response and behavioural change. âWhat-ifâ scenarios can be used to test, observe and influence outcomes. Cost-effective models of ... Distributed by Tubemogul.
Phil Lempert, supermarket guru, rates new foods and assigns each a rating based on: taste, health, ingredients, appearance, sustainability, preparation, packaging and value.
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Renewability, sustainability, and energy conservation are all over the news. Every newspaper's front page and every television nightly news program features sustainability daily. These are important issues, not only for the health of our planet, but also for our physical health and well-being.
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206.770.0606 Looking for an authentic Italian dining experience in the heart of Seattle, WA? Fall in love at first bite at Amore Authentic Italian Cuisine. For the past eight years, Chef and Owner Sean Langan of KKOL AM 1300 "Food Buzz" radio incorporates fresh and organic ingredients with his own passion for taste and pleasure to produce a seductive venue for romantic evenings or business luncheons alike. In an effort towards sustainability and in order to offer the freshest and highest quality food possible, Chef Langan only uses naturally produced locally grown ingredients in the food prepared at Amore. Menu offerings often change daily as dictated by the quality of ingredients available. Known for its high quality and safety standards in beef production, Amore uses beef from the Harris Ranches of California. In addition, seafood selections offered are wild ...
Corporate Social Responsibility News: Wal-Mart's Sustainability Consortium Joined by IT Corps; Fish2Fork's Sustainable Seafood Dining Guide Distributed by Tubemogul.
Phil Lempert, supermarket guru, rates new foods and assigns each a rating based on: taste, health, ingredients, appearance, sustainability, preparation, packaging and value.