2008

Jared Huffman

Assemblymember 6th District

Elected to the Assembly in November 2006, Assembly Member Jared Huffman has quickly earned respect as a legislator who tackles complex public policy challenges, works tirelessly, and gets results – often by forging consensus on seemingly intractable issues. In his first two years, Huffman was among the state’s most prolific lawmakers, passing 28 pieces of legislation.

His determination, candor, and independent thinking are reminiscent of his hometown hero, President Harry S. Truman. Growing up in Independence, Missouri, Huffman’s earliest political memory was seeing Truman walking around the town square. Huffman still collects memorabilia and books on President Truman.

Huffman’s priorities include protecting our environment; fighting global warming while creating jobs and building a “clean and green” 21st century economy; promoting sustainable water, land use and transportation policies; revitalizing public education; and reforming our broken health care system.

John Harrington

President, Harrington Investments, Inc.

John Harrington is the President of Harrington Investments, Inc., a socially responsible investment advisory firm. He was the managing member of a social venture fund, Global Partners, LLC and is currently a partner of Community Commercial Ventures, LLC. Mr. Harrington has a BA degree from Sonoma State University and received his MA degree in Humanities from Dominican University completing his thesis entitled “The Morality of Materialistic Self-Interest, The Corporation and The State”. In 2007, John received the Sonoma State University 'Distinguished Alumni' award. He is the author of "Investing With Your Conscience" (John Wiley & Sons, 1992) and "The Challenge to Power: Money, Investing and Democracy" (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2005).

Pic Walker

Sustainability Consultant, Blu Skye Consulting

Pic’s decade of experience in the environmental sector allows him to recognize emerging sustainability trends, research and evaluate needs in the marketplace, and implement innovative strategies to align the organization’s environmental principles with market potential. He assists clients in research and development of sustainability and environmental programs. Prior to joining Blu Skye, Pic worked at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation leading research and development efforts for the Environment team.

He was born and raised in New England and holds a B.A. from Middlebury College in Vermont and an M.B.A in sustainable enterprise from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He and his wife, Heather, and their two beautiful daughters, Zelle and Kit live in San Rafael, CA.

Joey Shepp

Founder and Principal, Earthsite.net

Joey Shepp is an Internet entrepreneur, sustainable brand expert, and a social technology speaker.

Mr. Shepp is the Founder and Principal of www.Earthsite.net, a new media agency for sustainable brands. He is also the Founder and Editor in Chief of www.GreenMaven.com, the world's most comprehensive search engine for environmental and social websites. For the past 7 years he has served as the Online Marketing Director for Green Festival, the world’s largest sustainability event.

Terry Taylor

President & Founder, Global Genesis

Terry D. Taylor is an independent consultant who has worked successfully with small non-profits to international Fortune 500 entities, in all areas of the globe and with multi-cultural teams. Terry studied educational and social psychology as an undergraduate and graduate at Stanford University. He currently owns and serves as President for Global Genesis, a small consulting firm that specializes in training, coaching and consulting in the arenas of change management, leadership, negotiations, conflict resolution, high performance teamwork and strategic planning. A few of his past and present clients include Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Apple Computers, Marriott International, the Singapore Government and Samsung Corporation. Services have been delivered in over 60 countries worldwide.

Matt Reynolds

President & Co-Founder, Indigenous Designs

Matt has over 14 years Experience in organic and fair trade cottage industry production and has been responsible for Spearheading a new production financing model for fair trade knitting cooperatives throughout South America. In addition to their memberships with Co-op America, Social Venture Network, BALLE, Organic Trade Association, and the Organic Fiber Council, Indigenous Designs is a Founding B Corporation.

Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy

About the Institute

Founded in 2000, the Leadership Institute is a 501©3 public charity based in Sonoma County and dedicated to ensuring a sustainable future for California’s North Coast. Our mission is to train people to be more effective leaders, and to educate community leaders and the public to understand that the future of our economy and quality of life are dependent on each other. The Institute is active throughout the year, providing education, training, and networking opportunities for community leaders. We have four main program areas:

• Leadership Training for a Sustainable Future
• Policy-Maker Outreach
• Community Education
• Leadership Networking

Sustainability

Sustainability recognizes that the planet’s resources are finite, and that if we want to be responsible stewards of the earth, we have to use those resources wisely, so they last indefinitely. To act responsibly in this regard, we must look beyond our day to day lives. We must examine the impact of our actions in a broader context. We must demonstrate leadership to our friends and neighbors, and embrace ecological sustainability as a continual process of improvement.

A Focus on Policy Makers

Existing laws, regulations, and economic policy make it costly and difficult to live a sustainable lifestyle. There is a growing consensus that government must make it easier to protect our natural environment, foster social equity, and support a prosperous local economy. Most elected and appointed officials want to do the right thing—they need encouragement, education, and support. The political will to change will come from a grassroots movement, not from city hall.

Leadership Training for a Sustainable Future

Our core program educates community leaders to be more effective in shaping public policy. Participants meet for a full day a month, from September through May. Class members work with key political and civic leaders, attend workshops on sustainability, take field trips, and engage in leadership training exercises. The class emphasizes the links between economic viability, ecological sustainability, and social equity. The issues range from global to local, the topics are relevant, and the discussions are lively and informative. Graduates of the program have held elected or appointed office in every community in Sonoma County.

Policy-Maker Outreach

We educate and inform elected and appointed officials with non-partisan analysis, research, and studies that help them make the right decisions for sustainable communities. Graduates of the Leadership Training for a Sustainable Future regularly act in advocacy roles in their communities, influencing public policy and building healthy communities.

Community Education

A key part of our mission is to raise public awareness about the linkages between economics, sustainability, and social justice. We sponsor public workshops and forums, often working cooperatively with other organizations. Our website, www.ecoleader.org, is a powerful tool to link individuals and organizations with resources and information.

Leadership Networking

There are now more than 200 graduates of the Leadership Training for a Sustainable Future. These Fellows of the Institute are a dynamic, highly-motivated group of individuals who want to make a difference in their communities. The Fellows have vastly different economic, social, cultural, and political backgrounds, yet they share an interest in a just and sustainable future. We offer regular networking opportunities for the Fellows, many of whom are also involved in the ongoing work of the Institute.

Learn more: http://ecoleader.org/

Sonoma State University

Located in California's premier wine country 40 miles north of San Francisco, Sonoma State is a small campus with big ideas. With a tradition of promoting intellectual and personal growth, leadership opportunities and technological proficiency, SSU offers its 8,500 students a friendly, safe and informal atmosphere on a beautiful campus setting of 269 richly-landscaped acres. Currently, campus housing accommodates 2,400 students in both apartment and residential suite style facilities.

Joey Shepp

Joey Shepp
Joey Shepp is an Internet entrepreneur, sustainable brand expert, and a social technology speaker. Mr. Shepp is the Founder and Principal of www.Earthsite.net, a new media agency for sustainable brands. He is also the Founder and Editor in Chief of www.GreenMaven.com, the world's most comprehensive search engine for environmental and social websites.

Joey Shepp is an Internet entrepreneur, sustainable brand expert, and a social technology speaker.

Mr. Shepp is the Founder and Principal of www.Earthsite.net, a new media agency for sustainable brands. He is also the Founder and Editor in Chief of www.GreenMaven.com, the world's most comprehensive search engine for environmental and social websites. For the past 7 years he has served as the Online Marketing Director for Green Festival, the world’s largest sustainability event.

Joey’s education has always been at the cutting edge of progressive thinking. In 2000 at the University of California Santa Cruz he received his BA in Ecological Design—seeing ecological systems as models and metaphors for sustainable design. Then, in 2005 he completed his MBA in Sustainable Enterprise, which studies a “triple-bottom-line” of people, planet, and profits.

Mr. Shepp’s professional consulting work in business, marketing and technology has included major players in the sustainable economy movement, including: Google.org, Energy Star, Fetzer Organic Wines, SF Department of the Environment, Global Exchange, Coop America, Green Festivals, Green MBA, GreenHome.com, Care2.com, and more.

Joey's speaker career includes such events as: Green Festivals, Net Impact, Sustainable Enterprise Conference, Green Drinks, Hollywood goes Green, Green MBA, and many more.

Learn more at www.JoeyShepp.com or search for Green Expert in Google.

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Tanya Narath

Tanya Narath

Sustainable Enterprise 2010 - Steering Committee

Executive Director and Fellow, Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy

Prior to joining the Leadership Institute in 2005, Tanya held various IT development, support and management positions with Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies. She is currently the Board Chair for Routes for Youth and is a member of the Pacific Region Advisory Council for the National Parks Conservation Association. She is the Chair of Santa Rosa’s Community Advisory Board and previously served on its Green Building Policy Advisory Committee.

Janet Beazlie

Janet Beazlie

SEC Steering Committee
2009 Fellow, Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy

Janet Beazlie has more than fifteen years of training and consulting experience in business in change management and organizational effectiveness. She has a wide field of experience: she has been Executive Director of the World Business Academy, served as System Administrator for the Sonoma County Office of Education's School to Career Program, and developed her own business leading night hikes for women.

Terry Taylor

Master of Ceremonies Terry Taylor

SEC Steering Committee
Founder & President, Global Genesis
2008 Fellow, Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy

Terry D. Taylor is an independent consultant who has worked successfully with organizations from small non-profits to international Fortune 500 entities and governments in all areas of the globe.

Terry received a MA in Educational Psychology from Stanford University and has worked with several organizations before forming his own consulting business in 1980. He specializes in strategic planning, training, and consulting in the arenas of negotiations, conflict resolution, high performance teamwork, and strategic change facilitation.

Michael Hannigan

President and Co-founder, Give Something Back, Inc.

Give Something Back, Inc. is California’s largest independent business to business office supply company. GSB was started in 1991 modeled on Newman’s Own food company. Company profits are donated to non-profit groups selected by customers and employees. GSB was named Corporate Grantmaker of the Year in 2003 and Small Business of the Year in 2005 by the US Small Business Administration. They are a Certified Green Business in Alameda County, a founding B Corporation, and have a 50 Kilowatt solar power system on the roof of their headquarters in Oakland.

2008 Visionary Sponsors


A special thank you to our Visionary Sponsors for supporting the conference at the highest sponsorship level.

Jeffrey Edelheit

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SEC Steering Committee
Operations Director, Restorative Technologies

Jeffrey C. Edelheit’s professional work focuses on supporting companies and entrepreneurs in developing strategic operating/business plans that create a solid foundation from which to grow. He specializes in working with enterprises whose product and services are geared toward environmental sustainability and beyond. He is currently affiliated with Restorative Technologies, an innovative company with offices in the Sonoma Mountain Business Incubator that draws on solutions from nature to provide innovations for industry. The resulting products utilize natural processes to enhance soil, water, and air for the benefit of plants, animals and people.

John Stayton, MBA

SEC Steering Committee
Dominican University, MBA in Sustainable Enterprise

After fifteen years in high technology industrial marketing, John desired to leverage his business background in developing a profession that would serve the environment and society. In 2000, he cofounded a groundbreaking graduate program in sustainable business that, in 2002, became the Green MBA. Based in Santa Rosa, the Green MBA is a rigorous two-year program that transforms students' abilities to advance environmental and social initiatives through changing or creating enterprises.

Ryn Longmaid

Ryn Longmaid

Sustainable Enterprise 2010 - Steering Committee

Board Member and 2007 Fellow, Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy

Dominican University of CA, San Rafael-- Program Manager, Green your MBA

In the spring of 2006, Ryn Longmaid attended the first Sustainable Enterprise Conference as a function of her position as Economic Development Specialist for the City of Sebastopol.

Having owned and operated a local business for years, sustainable business management resonated with her deeply. Ryn officially joined the Sustainable Enterprise Coalition in 2007, and served as the marketing director for the conference in 2008. Ryn has managed various sustainability programs and is currently the program manager for the executive certificate program: Green your MBA at Dominican University of California in San Rafael.

Stacey Ward

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Co-Director, Sustainable Enterprise 2008

Stacey Ward came to Sonoma, CA from the Central Valley over seven years ago and fell in love with the area. Her move was motivated by her studies at Sonoma State University where she graduated with a double major in Environmental Studies/Planning and Economics. Soon after her graduation, she extended her formal training by earning an MBA with an emphasis in Environmental Entrepreneurship through the GreenMBA program.

Schedule - May 2, 2008

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7:00 REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST

Thank you to our generous Breakfast Sponsor, Green MBA at Dominican University of California.


8:00 WELCOME

  • MC - Genevieve Taylor, Sustainable Enterprise Coalition
  • Brad Baker - President/CEO, Codding Investments, Inc.
  • Jake McKenzie - Mayor, Rohnert Park

8:20 KEYNOTE

"WHY GREEN IS GOOD FOR CALIFORNIA BUSINESS"

  • Jared Huffman - Assemblyman for California's 6th Assembly District

8:55 Question and Answer Period


9:15 BREAK

Thank you to Taylor Maid Farms, Traditional Medicinals & Odwalla for sponsoring the beverages.


Consulting Corner

Dominican University’s Green MBA candidates and alumni will be available for individual consultations during the Workshop Sessions 1-3. Read more


9:30 WORKSHOPS - SESSION 1

Track A - Large/Medium Enterprise

PANEL: “Breakthroughs in Sustainability: Case Studies in Operations and Product Design”
Moderator: Ed Quevedo - WSP Environmental

2008 Conference Program

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The Sustainable Enterprise Coalition program is specifically geared towards the needs of enterprises and intended to answer the question "We know about sustainability, so what do we do next?"

Relevant and timely, the Sustainable Enterprise 2008 program addresses the needs and interests of businesses with tracks that are based on levels of operation:

2008 Exhibitors

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Conference attendees will have the opportunity to visit the Sustainability Exhibits showcasing sustainability-related products or services, or educating about sustainability initiatives.

Robin Parvin

Robin Parvin

Sustainable Enterprise 2010 - Volunteer Coordinator

Robin Parvin is a ropes course facilitator, on the event staff for Sausalito Parks & Rec, dancer, gardener and paralegal. She is an active volunteer for www.sustainablefairfax.org

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