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Member - Mentoring Program for the
2007 California Clean Tech Open. The Open invites any team with a bright idea
and the drive to start a company to compete for one of six "start-up in a box" prize packages. The competition strives to provide the winner in each category with all the
business essentials necessary to help take their idea from concept to business.
Project Outreach: Register and vote Green. That's Green Party! If you agree with the
ten key values of the Green Party,
and you would like to send that message to your elected representatives, registering Green is an effective wake-up call. Contact the Berkeley Greens
and the Green Party of Alameda County.
I have volunteered to be a Business Advisor for Pacific Community Ventures in San Francisco.
Pacific Community Ventures provides resources and capital to businesses that have the potential to bring significant economic gains to low/moderate income communities. For more information,
contact Kate (Miller) Sofis, Director, Statewide Business Advising.
Project Outreach: The Mendocino Ecological Learning Center (MELC) , Willits, CA, is an educational organization and
demonstration site where people can come and see examples of living in ways that conserve resources, create diversity, increase self sufficiency, and promote profound understandings of the
relationships between ourselves and our planet. Contact Maximillian Meyers Director at (707) 456-0779.
Project Outreach: The California Healthy Communities Network is organized around a simple idea -- "that at strategic
moments all organizations should join forces around a clearly articulated agenda to promote and uphold the rights of a healthy community". Are you concerned about Wal-Mart? Check in!
Project Outreach: Green Change is a new national organization for people with Green
values: justice, non-violence, sustainability and grassroots democracy. Their mission is to transform power and policy with Green values. Green Change is building a new Green counterculture, helping people
organize themselves to act online and in the streets. They are creating an online network with powerful tools to help you learn more, communicate better and make a greater cultural and political impact
in our country and our world.
Project Outreach: "We are the Swings. We live on 29 acres of mountainous desert in Cerrillos, New Mexico
(25 miles out of Santa Fe). We play beautiful music of Zimbabwe as a family, grow a garden using nature as our guide, have chickens, dogs and cats and welcome a perfect little family, single or couple
who want to live simply on our land in exchange for: help with becoming more sustainable, being "home" when we are traveling and playing music (including dog walks, chicken
feeding and watering the garden. We are completely off grid, using solar for electricity and woodshop. Our kids are homeschooled and play lots of music with us. We live happy
lives for the most part, living and learning through our challenges. Our land is used for musical retreats for teachers and students alike. Check us out at
trilliummarimba.com and contact us if you are the one(s) who would
like to live on the land with us.Short term or long term." Sincerely, Mikaela Swing, PO Box 801, Cerrillos, NM, 87010. Phone: 505-474-6088.
Sustainable Business Consultant for an Alameda affordable urban permaculture housing project.
The Founder, Robert van de Walle, describes his vision: "With the current state of the real estate market, a unique opportunity exists to do
far more than flip properties. By combining expertise from the green building and architecture sphere, the relocalization sphere, the social activism sphere, and the sustainability sphere,
distressed investment properties can become the cores for community-centered living, reshaping the urban environment and offering solutions to issues as large as global climate change.
The ideas from urban permaculture point the way to creating a secure, environmentally sound, and socially just housing model which has room for both investor-owners to make up to
40% return over two years as well as offering low prices to owner-tenants who are yearning for affordable housing."
Sustainable Business Consultant for the San Francisco Green Grand Prix & Renewable Energy Exposition. The Mission of the Grand Prix
and Expo is to foster the development of sustainable, green and carbon neutral technologies that promote solutions to global warming. The combined event (2009) will focus international attention on
new transportation fuels and other green energy sources and will feature leading academic institutions, clean-tech firms and entrepreneurs from around the world with hands-on demonstrations of state-of-the-art
technologies for the public and investor communities. For more information, please contact Founder Randy Robinson, Founder.
Project Manager, Cross Country Consulting, Inc. - The Gold Group, San Francisco, CA. Green start-up.
Project Outreach: Entrepreneurs for Sustainability. E4S is a diverse network of over 3,800 leaders who are putting the
principles of sustainability into action in Northeast Ohio. "Building a sustainable economy starts with one business at a time, one project at at time." Read their stories!
Project Outreach for The Helman Project - a green, sustainable, energy efficient, and socially responsible place to live
and work in Ashland, Oregon. The residential units will be loft style and upscale. The commercial units will cater to quiet businesses to comply with noise concerns of our neighbors.
The mill site was first settled in 1852. It required 20 months to receive approval from the Ashland Historical and Planning Commissions.
Please contact Jim Batzer, Owner, for more information. Documents: Defining Green (5/07); Design Team Letter (2/13); Helman Blog 1 (2/25); Photos and Elevations (2/25)