Carmen has worked in fashion for nearly 20 years, most recently in sustainable design, consulting, and sourcing. Working in India in 1999 with artisan communities reviving endangered crafts and later developing a yoga line using certified organic cotton and natural dyes exposed her to the challenges of developing sustainable products. She currently teaches Ethical Fashion at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons New School of Design in New York, and she dedicates her time to reevaluating the human and environmental cost of products, advocating for craftsmanship, and redefining “mad ...

je & jo comestibles is a small artisanal ice cream company based in Hell's Kitchen, NY owned by Jonathan Baker & Jennifer Welser. All ice creams are paired with a complementing layer of all natural cookie dough and hand packed in a single-serve sugar cane based cup. While trying to build a profitable business Jonathan and Jennifer strive to source locally & seasonally, use fair trade goods, use organic ingredients whenever possible , use sustainable & recycled disposables and be conscientious in every step of the process. Everything is manufactured on site.

Where ethics meets aesthetics, Magnifeco.com is the digital source for eco-fashion and sustainable living. Dedicated to bringing together ethical designers and conscious consumers from all corners of the globe, Magnifeco.com publishes stories about small artisans and corporate retailers who are focused on producing garments or products in ways that won't harm the earth, yet still offer stunning visual appeal and longevity. With over 1,000 articles on the site, founder and editor-in-chief Kate Black is well versed on eco and ethical fashion principles and what consumers should be looking for. ...

Brian Bonz is a musician, composer and educator from Brooklyn. Brian works with grades Pre-K to 6th grade teaching music classes like Songwriting & Guitar, Percussion, and Rock Band.

Rebecca Casciano is a Makeup Artist, Green Beauty Expert and Holistic Wellness Coach, whose mission is to enhance the natural beauty of her clients, from the inside out. As a makeup artist, Rebecca is dedicated to using products that are safe, sustainable and effective. As a Green Beauty + Wellness Coach, she is passionate about educating women on the benefits of a nourishing, plant-based lifestyle and beauty routine. She wholeheartedly believes that we don't have to compromise glamour, luxury or style to live in a more natural and organic way.

Hailing from New York City, Circa ’95 is an independent Hip-Hop music and media group comprised of Patty Dukes and Reph. Puerto Rican & Dominican by way of The Bronx and Washington Heights, they rhyme seamlessly through English and Spanish. They recently released their first album "FREE LUNCH" which is available through their website www.circa95.com. Last year they completed a 5 month artistic residency with The Bronx Music Heritage Center Lab curating The Circa '95 Pop-Up Shop, a lifestyle store encouraging music, art, culture and wellness throughout the community. During the residency they ...

Tanyette Colon is an activist who has championed those opposing fracking and the Minisink Compressor Station.

Nimet is a Brand Ambassador for REBORN by SOHAM DAVE, an eco fashion clothing line. The line is merchandised in New York and produced in India by local artisans, creating a cottage industry of women entrepreneurs. Nimet co-leads the NYC Fair Trade Coalition and a spokesperson for promoting fair trade practices and encouraging collaboration. NYCFTC organizes various new platforms such as educational panels, Fair Fashion Runway show and markets to increase awareness of Fair trade in the city. Nimet is also a board member of Wishwas, a New York City non profit organization with a mission to em ...

Eden Di Bianco is an expert in natural skincare and licensed green makeup artist. She has appeared in TONY, BUST Magazine, and Platinum Weddings, NY. She is a contributing writer for for GirlieGirlArmy.com, maintains her own clientele, and is the consulting cosmetologist at Perelandra Natural Foods. Clients include co-creator of the Daily Show/author Lizz Winstead; Comedian Leo Allen; Alexandra Jamieson of 'Supersize Me'; Miss America 2013 Mallory Hytes Hagan,and Founder of GGA Chloé Jo Davis. Here green beauty motto is "Look & feel your best by using products that are clean, cruelty free, a ...

Actress, Vegan Chef and Eco Lifestylist Leslie Durso shares her passion for vegan living daily on lesliedurso.com, on TV and throughout the web. Recently featured on Food Network, Discovery Channel, Hallmark Channel, and Mother Nature Network, Leslie fuses her sunshiny meat-free message with nutritional wellness to evangelize the benefits of a plant-based lifestyle to mainstream omnivores. Maxim Magazine wrote: "We want to hire Leslie as our own personal chef! We'll even eat vegetables for her." When she’s not firing up audiences online and on TV with veggie love, she appears at Food & Wine ...

Environmental artist Torkwase Dyson received her MFA from Yale University in painting in 2003. Her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art, the Corcoran College of Art, the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. Awards include Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists, Spelman College Art Colony Fellowship, National Women’s Studies Association Travel Grant, Yale University Barry Cohen Scholarship and the Yale University Paul Harper Residency at Vermont Studio Center Prize. Her series of mobile solar powered sculptures, Stu ...

Elizabeth L. Cline is a New York-based journalist author of Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion. Cline is a self-proclaimed former cheap-fashion junkie who traveled the world from Bangladesh to China to South Carolina and beyond to uncover the hidden toll our clothing addiction is taking on the environment, the economy, and even our happiness. Cline has been hailed as the "Michael Pollan of fashion," and the New York Timescalls her a "persuasive advocate" for a slow fashion movement.

Andrew Faust (B.A., Guilford College) has been a certified permaculture designer since 1996 and a certified alternative school teacher since 1993. He homesteaded off the grid in WV for ten years where he created the Center for Bioregional Living. With 20 years of experience in bioregional education, Andrew has been in NYC for seven years thriving on permaculture design work, teaching, consulting, and gardening in New York City and the northeastern U.S. with nonprofits, businesses, schools, communities and homeowners.

nycbeekeeping.org is an all-volunteer group for beekeepers and beelovers. We provide a comprehensive infrastructure for Responsible Urban Beekeeping citywide. Jim Fischer teaches a free, in-depth course in beekeeping, the group offers expert and peer mentoring, and community service & outreach activities throughout the year open to all. Members volunteer with urban farms, community gardens, the NYC Parks Dept., schools and other organizations to foster a strong community of responsible urban beekeepers, to bring training & economic opportunity through beekeeping to underserved areas, to conse ...

Great design is at the heart of EILEEN FISHER. It is an idea brought into life through clean lines, simple shapes, and sensual fabrics. It strives to balance the timeless with the modern, function with beauty. It is clothing in context, made to fit both our bodies and our lives.

Russell’s focuses on the intersection of people, architecture, and technology. His built and written work explores urban microclimates, human comfort, sustainable architecture, passive design, urban informatics, and engineering design culture. His forthcoming book, Kinetic Architecture, explores recent developments in dynamic and thermally active facades. Russell directs sustainable design projects for Arup and is an applied studies faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. His key projects include the Seattle Public Library and the COFCO Beijing Agricultural Eco-V ...

Amy Galper is the Founder of the award winning yoga-inspired organic mind-body-beauty brand, Buddha Nose. Buddha Nose products are currently sold in dozens of yoga and pilates studios world-wide and are well recognized for their unique aromatic blends and effective healing properties. Amy is also the founder of The Yoga Beauty Bar, an interactive pop-up shop that celebrates, educates and advocates for conscious beauty. She has consulted for The Yoga Journal, writing a few newsletter columns about Conscious Beauty and Wellness, and collaborates with several like-minded brands to create private ...

Austin Texas based Artist, George Sabra, is an internationally recognized sculptor who has worked exclusively with reclaimed and discarded materials for twenty seven years. He strives to make peace with the environment through action and his works of art. He creates public sculptures that inspires the audience and invites them to consider the environmental issues.

Urban Air creator and LA-based sculptor Stephen Glassman first caught international attention in the early 1990's when he began creating freeform, large-scale bamboo installations in urban sites devastated by the Rodney King Riots, Malibu Fires and Northridge Quake. These works became local symbols of resiliency as well as a springboard for the permanent, monumental-scale public works he creates today – art for art’s sake in a social context. Stephen’s work has been published worldwide, and been awarded with an NEA / White House Millennium Fellowship, a Chrysler Design Award nomination, ...

Peter Glatzer is an independent film producer with six films to his credit, including the Sundance hit THE GRAVE and the Tim Roth/Renee Zellweger thriller DECEIVER. He’s made films and created television shows for HBO, Miramax, Fox, MGM and Discovery. As an independent producer he is hands-on, guiding his projects from early development through marketing and sales. Prior to producing, he was the executive director of The Hamptons Film Festival and the creator of the IFP Gotham Awards. In 2009 he created and produced the TV show ALTER ECO with Adrian Grenier for Discovery’s Planet Green. ...

Rhett Godfrey's classes integrate cooking, music, fantasy adventure, and Central Park to bring complex sciences and naturalist skills to life. He has been teaching at Wingspan for over two years. Rhett is studied in a diversity of natural and physical sciences and is presently the Manager of Sustainability at the organic apparel company, Loomstate LLC

An eco-entrepreneur for the last 24 years, way before it was ever cool, Jeff is an Honours Graduate of the Ivey School of Business. He is the Co-Founder and President of Prairie Pulp & Paper Inc. , which is active in the research, development and sales of recycling agricultural wheat straw fibres into tree-free chlorine-free sulfur-free paper (www.stepforwardpaper.com). Jeff has had, and continues to have, many lives. He’s created things. He was the founder of Winnipeg’s Blue Box curbside recycling program, 20 years ago, as well as Pulse Furniture, a custom furniture manufacturer that c ...

Gravitz has helped lead the national agenda to create a socially and environmentally responsible economy for more than 25 years. As the Executive Director of Green America (formerly Co-op America), Gravitz has pioneered effective techniques for addressing issues of sustainable consumption and production with American consumers and businesses. She has taught family and business solutions for a more just and sustainable future, and now understands at an even deeper personal level, how important these solutions are. She is the recipient of the 2006 Sustainability Award exemplifying economic and e ...

Eric Henry, president of TS Designs, is one-half of the dynamic duo that owns TSD. Alongside his business partner and TSD CEO Tom Sineath, Eric has been in the screenprinting business for over 30 years. Eric’s duties at TSD range from sales to operations to PR. He is the foremost public face of TSD, attending numerous trade shows, giving speeches to groups and universities and hosting tours of the TSD facility. His boundless enthusiasm and energy have gained him a certain level of notoriety at most of them, even winning him the Sustainability Champion award from Sustainable North Carolina i ...

National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the forthcoming book, Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow, Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and justplainfolks.Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower believes that the true political spectrum is not right to left but top to bottom, and he has become a leading national voice for the 80 percent of the public who no longer find themselves within shou ...

Karama Horne is the founder of the DIY green blog "Savvy Brown." Since launching in January of 2010, the Savvy Brown blog has reached and influenced thousands of people who are striving to live simpler, greener, healthier lives but don’t want to break the bank to do it. The purpose of the blog is to share and document some of the simple changes that we can make everyday to help the environment, our health, our beauty routines and our homes.

Perkins, a former economic hit man, is a founder and board member of Dream Change and the Pachamama Alliance, nonprofit organizations devoted to creating stable, sustainable and peaceful worlds. He has lectured and taught at universities on four continents including Harvard, Wharton and Princeton, and is a champion of environmental and social causes. Perkins's Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, which spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller lists and has been published in more than 30 languages, details the clandestine operations that created the world's first truly global emp ...

Talat Jonathan Phillips is the author of The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic.He co-founded the cutting edge, transformational web-magazine Reality Sandwich and The Evolver Network, coordinating 50+ regional Evolver chapters. He is a spirituality blogger for "The Huffington Post" and a Bioenergetic Healer. www.TalatHealing.com

Ken Roseboro has been called “the nation’s reporter on all issues surrounding genetically modified foods” by Acres USA magazine. Ken is editor and publisher of The Organic & Non-GMO Report, a monthly news magazine that focuses on threats posed by GM foods and the growing non-GMO food trend. He is also editor and publisher of The Non-GMO Sourcebook, a directory of suppliers of non-GMO seeds, grains, and ingredients. Ken is author of Genetically Altered Foods and Your Health and The Organic Food Handbook both published by Basic Health Publications. He is a member of the board of directors ...

Frances Moore Lappé is the author of the recently released EcoMind and seventeen other books, including the bestselling Diet for a Small Planet. The recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and the James Beard Foundation’s “Humanitarian of the Year” award, she is the cofounder of three organizations, including Food First and, more recently, the Small Planet Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

As Education Program Manager, Laura Lee contributes to the coordination and supervision of Wingspan Arts Afterschool Programming. Laura Lee holds a BA in Performing Arts from Iowa State University and an MA in Educational Theatre from New York University.

Alison Rose Levy broke the fracking story on Huffington and provided ongoing coverage. The host of ConnecttheDots on the Progressive Radio Network, Alison also covers food safety, toxic chemicals, organics, and integrative health, to connect wellbeing, social policy, and activism for health and the environment. Join her on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/ConnectingtheDotsforHealth Alison Rose Levy is a much-published writer with 20+ years experience creating communications for major media, focusing on integrative health, lifestyle, yoga, psychology, and spiritual transformation in such publicat ...

Mitch Lewis is enjoying his third year with Wingspan and continues to branch out beyond his collegiate background in musical theatre and now enjoys teaching a broad range of classes from Eco-Art to Knitting. He is also the Co-Creator of the YouTube Channel: The Kloons.

A long-time advocate for “doing the right thing,” Lewis Perkins is a champion for sustainability – personally and professionally. Prior to joining the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, Lewis consulted to companies both big and small on creating programs and awareness for environmental and social initiatives. Perkins led the "green" charge as director of sustainable strategies for The Mohawk Group, a leading carpet manufacturer and commercial division of Mohawk Industries. He continues draw on this passion and experience to help advance the Institute’s mission of scaling C ...

Anthony Lilore has earned a BFA in Fashion Design -PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN, BA in Psychology and Art History –VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY. He has worked in a design and technical capacity for BILL BLASS, PERRY ELLIS and “Club Monaco” and the upper echelon of the Cosmetic and Spa Industries. With wife, Celeste, he co-founded RESTORE™CLOTHING to blend their vision of social and environmental responsibility with a commitment to producing mindful, timeless, versatile active lifestyle collections in NYC. Lilore is a founding board member of SAVE THE GARMENT CENTER and lecturer/teacher of design ...

Jacqueline Lyoussi has been an active participant in the New York City sustainability community for 7 years. She has been a board member and active participant with White Roof Project as of July of 2011. Jacqueline is also an event coordinator for Greendrinks NYC, a social networking organization that connects like-minded people interested in working with or supporting sustainability in local communities. As a profession, Jacqueline specializes in the residential real estate sales in Manhattan and Brooklyn New York. She is passionate about utilizing her knowledge and relationships with buildin ...

Deborah Marton is the senior vice-president of The New York Restoration Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reclaiming and restoring New York City parks, community gardens and open space, and to planting a million trees within the five boroughs by 2017.

Steve, “Sproutman,” is the author of several books on health, diet, and nutrition including Sprouts the Miracle Food, Sproutman’s Kitchen Garden Cookbook, and Wheatgrass Nature’s Finest Medicine. Steve is one of the world's leading proponents of sprouting, juicing, fasting, wheatgrass, indoor gardening, raw foods, and pure water. You can visit him at www.Sproutman.com

Mike Tinskey leads the company’s sustainability activities for electric vehicles and infrastructure. His focus is to develop and implement new business models, products, and partnerships to ensure success for Ford plug-in hybrids and full battery electric vehicles globally. Prior to this role, Mike led the Product Planning and Program Management activities globally for hybrid electric vehicles and was responsible for developing and implementing Ford's electric vehicle strategy that was announced in January 2009. Mr. Tinskey has held a variety of leadership positions during his career with F ...

Victoria Moran is the author of eleven groundbreaking books addressing sustainability, spirituality, and health. These include the best-selling Creating a Charmed Life (in 30 languages); the essential vegan weight loss guide, The Love-Powered Diet; and her latest: Main Street Vegan: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully & Live Compassionately in the Real World, which VegNews magazine calls “The Vegan Bible.” A professional speaker (clients include Toyota Women's Conferences, Speaking of Women's Health, and Hallmark Cards), Victoria has appeared on Oprah, Today, Good Morning Americ ...

Neil Chambers has displayed leadership within green building his entire career. In his book Urban Green: Architecture for the Future, he outlines a vision for aligning cities and buildings with nature. He has participated in over 4 million sf of green buildings ranging in size and scale from in the United States, Caribbean, Asia and Europe saving millions of kWh and gallons of water. He has expertise with many LEED rating systems and has completed LEED projects throughout the United States. He is a member of National USGBC, USGBC New York City Chapter, and assisted in founding USGBC Grand St ...

Nivedita chandrappa has a degree in journalism and masters in public relations. As a television Producer at Queens Public Television and an activist, she has dealt with various immigrant issues, during which she has spoken about immigrant women in New York. She produced a television show called "Asian Indian Immigrant Experience" through which she celebrated the diversities and culture of immigrants in this city. She worked with refugee communities to organize them for creating cooperatives and helping them with their actual needs. Many of immigrant stories revolved around alienation and loss ...

Jacquie Ottman is an internationally recognized expert on green marketing and eco- innovation. She is the founder and principal of the NYC-based J. Ottman Consulting, Inc., Clients include Fortune 500 companies, including 3M, Nike, and Johnson and Johnson. Her firm has also advised several U.S. government ecolabeling programs, including the U.S. EPA's Energy Star, SmartWay, and the new USDA Certified BioBased label. A sought-after speaker who has been quoted in Forbes, Fortune, Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, Ottman is the author of four books on green marketing, ...

Noted by Black Enterprise as one of the “Top 20 National Bloggers of 2012”, Yoli Ouiya earned her online media moniker, “Queen of Green”. Yoli is a holistic health advocate, sustainability consultant and well-regarded green chef. As Founder of the boutique eco-lifestyle outfit, Yoli’s Green Living Group, Yoli promotes health and environmental education, and guides conscious consumer habits. Her online portal, YolisGreenLiving.com, was awarded “Best in Green Living” by AllParenting.com. With a certification in Plant-Based Nutrition from Cornell University, Yoli is a passionate le ...

Peter is an advisor to impact investors and social entrepreneurs in raising social capital, increasing equity value, growing revenue, building and nurturing strategic relationships, and adhering to triple bottom line standards. He has invested in several early stages social purpose companies including Stonyfield Farms and Zipcar, and as an entrepreneur was co- founder and co-CEO of IceStone, a Brooklyn-based manufacturer of high design green countertop material made with 100% recycled glass. At IceStone Peter led the effort in raising $20 million of mission-aligned capital. He is passionate a ...

What I do at Holstee: Mad scientist responsible for letting the world know about Holstee. Favorite quote: "Whatever you do, do it for peace" - John Lennon Recommended Book: A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Favorite Holstee Design: The BLACK Wallet Culinary Specialty: Hummus Find me on: michael.radparvar.com Just tweeted by @michaelrad :

Recycled runway is a student run club at The New School. We take pre-existing items bound for landfill and refashion them into clothing. By doing this, the usefulness of the discarded item is extended, and the question is raised: What is trash? Our goal is to make people question their relationship with waste, and the things they interact with everyday, like clothing.

A student of the writers Charles Gaines and Kurt Vonnegut, Talen has staged experimental plays, published essays and poems in Philadelphia, New York and California. At Life On the Water, a theater in San Francisco’s Fort Mason Theater, Talen presented artists such as Spalding Gray, Mabou Mines, David Cale, B. D. Wong, Holly Hughes, William Yellow Robe, the Red Eye Collective, Reno, John Trudeau, and Danny Glover reciting the works of Langston Hughes. This experience in producing led him to the confessional monologue. After studying with the cleric Reverend Sidney Lanier, Talen invented “a ...

Elise Reynard, a dancer, actress and singer in the band “, loves to perform, teach children, and work with Wingspan Arts to ensure she brings creativity to her life and others, every day.

Sass Brown is the Assistant Dean of the School of Art and Design for the Fashion Institute of Technology, and the former Resident Director of their study abroad program in Florence, Italy. Originally from London, England, Sass established herself as a designer with her own signature collection. As a researcher, writer, journalist and blogger, her area of expertise is eco fashion, in all of its different expressions, from slow design and heritage craft skills to recycle, reuse and new business models. Her first book, Eco Fashion, showcases some of the best expressions of eco fashion around the ...

Rachel is an artist, activist and educator currently working with the NYC campaign for domestic worker's rights, Occupy Wall Street, and 350.org- the global grassroots climate change resistance network! She teaches "eco-art" and textile classes with Wingspan Arts.

Beauty industry veteran and entrepreneurial mom, Kate Solomon, is an expert on kid’s beauty and grooming. A Harvard graduate with an MBA from Northwestern, Solomon was a seasoned beauty executive for industry giants, L’Oréal, Parfums Givenchy and Avon before launching her own organic grooming line for kids, Babo Botanicals. Developed with top botanists, Babo features top quality prestige adult-quality ingredients in family-friendly packaging. An advocate of sustainable agricultural development and avid greenmarket enthusiast, Solomon grew up beekeeping with her father and later taught rur ...

A life-long teacher whose clarity, humor and insight inspire thousands of families facing traumatic events, William Spear draws from four decades of experience including training with the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Center and Sogyal Rinpoche and teaching natural approaches to health and sustainable design. In immediate response to disasters in southeast Asia; central Java, Indonesia; Samoa; Japan and the Northeast US, William and his team trained hundreds of mental health professionals, medical students, doctors, clergy, parents, volunteers and caregivers to mitigate the effects of PTSD in orphane ...

Stefanie Iris Weiss is the author of nine books, including her latest title–Eco-Sex: Go Green Between the Sheets and Make Your Love Life Sustainable (Crown Publishing/Ten Speed Press, 2010). She keeps her carbon footprint small in New York City, where she writes about sustainability, sexuality, reproductive rights, dating and relationships, politics, fashion, beauty, and more. Stefanie has a monthly column in British ELLE, is a Huffington Post blogger, and has written for Above Magazine, nerve.com, The Daily Green, Marie Claire, and Teen Vogue, to name a few. Stefanie is also an on-and-off a ...

Moving generations of students into spheres of personal and academic successes they have never imagined while reclaiming and rebuilding the Bronx, Stephen’s extended student and community family have grown over 30,000 pounds of vegetables in the Bronx while generating extraordinary academic performance. His Bronx classroom features the first indoor edible wall in NYC DOE which routinely generates enough produce to feed 450 students healthy meals and trains the youngest nationally certified workforce in America. Recently dubbed the Pied Piper of Peas, Stephen has just launched Green Bronx Mac ...

Maura Stephens spent 19 years in mainstream journalism before switching to independent media and now writes for such publications as Alternet, Common Dreams, Counterpunch, Truthout, and Yes! magazine. Associate director of the Park Center for Independent Media in Ithaca, New York, she also teaches community, peace, and environmental journalism. A cofounder of Frackbusters, Coalition to Protect New York, and other activist groups, she has been immersed in fracking issues for five years and recently completed a book, Frack Attack: Fighting Back, which is partly a guide for antifracktivists. Maur ...

Mark Tercek is president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, the global conservation organization known for its intense focus on collaboration and getting things done for the benefit of people and nature. A former managing director for Goldman Sachs, where he spent 25 years, Mark brings deep business experience to his role leading the Conservancy, which he joined in 2008. He is a champion of the idea of natural capital—valuing nature for its own sake as well as for the services it provides for people, such as clean air and water, productive soils and a stable climate. Mark is a member of se ...

Theresa is an American tech-professional and the founder of two social enterprises. The first, WORK+SHELTER, is a safe space where women in New Delhi can come to live, work, and make a fair wage. The products the women make are sourced by American companies looking for a fair-trade production unit.

Katrina vanden Heuvel is Editor and Publisher of The Nation. She is a frequent commentator on American and international politics on ABC, MSNBC, CNN and PBS. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Foreign Policy magazine and The Boston Globe. She writes a weekly web column for The Washington Post. Her blog "Editor's Cut" appears at thenation.com. She is the author of The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in The Age of Obama (Nation Books, 2011). She is also the editor of Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financia ...

PeaceKeeper™ Cause-Metics™ is an eco-green, sustainable cosmetics company which gives donations to urgent human rights issues for women and children. Nominated as a finalist for "Best Lip Product of the Year" by CEW, PeaceKeeper’s products are some of the most natural in the industry. PeaceKeeper sources certain raw ingredients from developing world farmers, who tend to be mostly women and gives micro-credit loans to their families. The line features products made without harmful ingredients or as they like to say, “No Nasty Anything”… and there is no animal testing! PeaceKeeper’ ...

je & jo comestibles is a small artisanal ice cream company based in Hell's Kitchen, NY owned by Jonathan Baker & Jennifer Welser. All ice creams are paired with a complementing layer of all natural cookie dough and hand packed in a single-serve sugar cane based cup. While trying to build a profitable business Jonathan and Jennifer strive to source locally & seasonally, use fair trade goods, use organic ingredients whenever possible , use sustainable & recycled disposables and be conscientious in every step of the process. Everything is manufactured on site.

A pacemaker within the green movement, Rev Yearwood has successfully bridged the gap between communities of color and environmental justice for more than three years. Shortly after founding the Hip Hop Caucus, Yearwood became National Director of the award winning Gulf Coast Renewal Campaign where he spearheaded a coalition of national and grassroots organizations to advocate for the rights of Katrina survivors. Later, on August 4, 2009, Yearwood led the Hip Hop Caucus to create theGreen the Block campaign in partnership with Green for All. In result, the Hip Hop Caucus is the first organiza ...