Green America’s Green Business Network will hold its eighth annual
Green Business Conference
in San Francisco November 11 and 12. The conference offers green businesses the chance to get tips from top green professionals, participate in workshops and network with other green businesses.
The theme of this year’s conference, “New Ways to Prosper in the New Economy” reflects the economic downturn. The Green Business Conference focuses on how to help a green business grow and thrive in today’s economy.
Bryan Welch, publisher of Ogden Publications, will speak about a new way of defining sustainability. “We lack a vision of the world we want to live in and want our grandchildren to live in,” he says.
Other green business speakers at the conference include Phaedra Ellis Lamkins, CEO of Green for All; Gil Friend, author of The Truth about Green Business; Bob Johansen, author of Leaders Make the Future; Theresa Marquez, chief marketing officer of
Organic Valley Family of Farms
; Libby Reder of eBay’s Environmental Initiatives; Woody Tasch of Slow Money; Bryan Welch from
Ogden Publications
; Priya Haji of
World of Good
; Joshua Onysko, founder of
Pangea Organics
; Margot Fraser, former CEO of
Birkenstock USA
; Joey Shepp of
Earthsite
; Terri Spath of
RSF Social Finance
and Adam Lowry of
Method
products.
For a full program schedule visit the
Green Business Conference
or call (800) 584-7336.
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