Green Festival

Rev. Andriette Earl, The Freedom Coach, is assistant minister of East Bay Church of Religious Science in Oakland, CA. She is a nationally respected, much indemand, transformational specialist, inspirational speaker, spiritual counselor, life coach and trained mediator. She is also the author of Embracing Wholeness: Living in Spiritual Congruence. Rev. Andriette is a spiritually committed communicator with a dynamic, engaging edutaining style that captivates audiences attending her presentations, sermons, trainings and workshops. Rev Andriette has hosted the Essence Empowerment Seminars in New ...

Rev. Andriette Earl is the Founding Minister of Heart and Soul Center of Light, a loving and compassionate worldclass teaching and empowerment ministry in the East Bay. She is known and respected for her exceptional discernment, her captivating inspirational messages and her dynamic, engaging edutaining delivery. She is a gifted and spiritually committed communicator, a prodigious facilitator, transformative author, spiritual counselor, masterful teacher and an extraordinary life coach, she inspires us to be everything we can be and much more than we thought we could be. Rev. Andriette is t ...

Michael Eck and Jesse Lee Gray have been in the green cleaning businesssince 2002. They started Housgreening in Denver in 2006 after havingworked at a similar company in Memphis, TN. Housegreening started outusing purchased green products, but very quickly made the transition tomaking them inhouse after doing research and discovering how easy andcosteffective it is to do so. Housegreening currently serves centralDenver.

HiDEF Creations is a company that thrives off of the conservation, creation, and celebration of Mother Nature and the collaboration of art and fashion as it pertains to the beautyindustry. Ecofriendly fashion, like mainstream fashion, is a phenomenon that's attracting more and more attention as we try to make everyday necessities more thoughtful and ecotrendy. With the devastating effects that humankind hasplaced on our earth, it is now time to promote, celebrate and recognize the people who work hard to make our clothing and personal styles natural and beautiful while creating the smallest fo ...

April Economides is the principal of Green Octopus Consulting, a sustainability firm that works at the intersection of local economic development and urban planning. April created and manages the City of Long Beach’s Bike Friendly Business District program and Bike Saturdays program in partnership with four business districts. She educates business leaders on the economic case for bicycling and advises them on placemaking projects, such as parklets. She organized the bike components for Long Beach’s 2011 PARK(ing) Day. An M.B.A. in Sustainable Management, she is a member of the Long Beach ...

Edwards is the director of Planeterra (www.planeterra.org), the nonprofit organization started by G.A.P Adventures (www.gapadventures.com). Working in both the development and the online marketing arenas, he employs his experience in sustainability issues related to community development and tourism gained while living in Central America for the much of the past 25 years. As a member of the G.A.P executive management team, Edwards helps manage the continued double digit growth of the largest independent adventure travel company in the world rates achieved even in the face of the current econo ...

Andrés Edwards is an educator, author, media designer and sustainability consultant. Heis founder and principal of EduTracks, a firm specializing in developing educationprograms and consulting services on sustainable practices for green building and businessinitiatives. His work includes developing energy management and sustainability plans, aswell as training and awareness programs for municipalities, colleges and propertymanagers. Andrés is author of Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a ResilientSociety, The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift and co-auth ...

A new member of the DC Sustainable Energy Utility Advisory Board, Egger is the founder and president of DC Central Kitchen.

Barbara Ehrenreich's articles, reviews and essays have been widely published. She received the Sydney Hillman Award for Journalism and a Brill's Content Honorable Mention (1999) for a chapter of her book, Nickel and Dimed, (Owl Books, 2002) which appeared in Harper's in January 1999. A second essay entitled Maid to Order, which grew out of her research for this book, was also published in Harper's (2000).Ms. Ehrenreich is the author of Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War (Metropolitan, 1997) and a collection of essays entitled The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes ...

Seth Eisen’s work is a hybrid of visual art and live performance. In 1994, he developed the company Eye Zen Art, an umbrella for producing performance, visual art projects and installations featured at The Oakland Museum of California, Theater Artaud, Zeum, Yerba Buena Center, SOMARTS, Theater of Yugen and CounterPulse. Seth performed as a member of Butoh companies Harupin–Ha and Ink Boat from 1994-99. From 2000-10 he performed with Keith Hennessy and circus company Circo Zero in the US and Europe. Seth’s solo show, Blackbird: Honoring a Century of Pansy Divas, sold out two San Francisco ...

Julie (Jiwan Shakti Kaur) started practicing yoga in the mid-1990s as a way to decompress from a stressful job. Over the years, as her practice deepened and evolved, Julie began to understand yoga as a tool of personal transformation and empowerment. She is certified through the Kundalini Resarch Institute (KRI) to teach Kundalini Yoga (as Taught by Yogi Bhajan). She began teaching yoga in early 2008, and by the end of that year, she was working fulltime as a yoga instructor. Until October 2011, Julie was also the Executive Director of Yoga Activist, Inc., a non-profit organization that connec ...

Riane Eisler is an eminent social scientist, attorney, keynote speaker, and social activist best known as author of the international bestseller The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future, now in 22 languages, including most European languages and Chinese, Russian, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic, and Japanese. Her newest book, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking, by Peter Senge as desperately needed and by Gloria Steinem as revolutionary, proposes a new approach to econom ...

Ashara Ekundayo is a cultural worker of the urban landscape and has served as catalyst, curator, educator, and producer for more than 20 years. Through her company BluBlak Media Consulting, she has worked with organizations to build capacity for increased community engagement through the uses of creative practice, exhibition, and project management. She is a serial entrepreneur and activist committed to social change, and has supported individuals and grassroots companies in the redesign of their brand strategy through permaculture principles and spiritual practice. Ashara is an urban farme ...

Seasunz, originally from Chicago is a frontman emcee, vocalist, producer, and the founder of Earth Amplified. Based in Oakland, he performs and presents his conscious music, poetry and spiritual activism nationally. Seasunz has shared stages with the likes of Bassnectar, Wisdom, Dead Prez, Midnite, Blackalicious, Jazz Mafia, KRS-One, Zion I and more. His acclaimed CD release, Earth Amplified, is a fierce tribute to the Earth and peoples’ liberation. Seasunz is an educator with the Alliance for Climate Education in Oakland, CA, and a Green For All Fellow. He is a co-founder of United Roots � ...

Eley works for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation. He serves on the advisory board for the DC chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects, and he assists the Planning and the Black Community Division of the American Planning Association with strategic partnerships.

Elfline is the coowner of Mighty House Construction. Elfline is also a hyperactive volunteer with CoolMom's West Seattle chapter and exChapter Coordinator. Elfline has spent her entire adult life engaging topics of environmental and human health. Elfline relentlessly works to inspire others in making a difference in ecosystem and individual health individual daily lives. Becoming a CoolMom was a perfect fit after giving birth to her identical twin daughters in 2006. Certified as a Master Home Environmentalist by the American Lung Association, Elfline brings indoor air quality and sustainabilit ...

Duane Elgin, MBA and MA is an internationally recognized, visionary speaker and author. His books include: Voluntary Simplicity, The Living Universe, Promise Ahead, and Awakening Earth. In 2006, Duane received the international Goi Peace Award in recognition of his contribution to a global vision, consciousness, and lifestyle that fosters a more sustainable and spiritual culture.

Carmen Eliam was born in Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast). From a youngage, she has always been creative, dreaming and outgoing. Shedeveloped her artistic abilities as a Fine Art student in France where,as a teen, she also discovered modeling and theater. For two decades, Washington D.C. has been her anchor to hone hercraft in jewelry making and the art of healing. Her thirst for cultureand beauty continues to lead her across the globe, nurturing hercreative spirit.

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.

Elkins coowns 2 Point Perspective with his wife Lisa. 2 Point Perspective is an architectural firm specializing in ecofriendly residential and commercial architectural projects. As licensed architects and LEED Accredited Professionals, they are passionate about design and the environment. Lisa and Ron share nearly 30 years of architectural experience in Chicago, San Francisco and London.

Lisa Elkins is a licensed architect and LEED Accredited Professional with more than fifteen years of architectural experience in Chicago, San Francisco and London. She is the founder of 2 Point Perspective, an eco-architectural and interiors firm, which works in both the residential and commercial sectors. Lisa has also worked as a furniture designer and an architectural writer, and has taught architectural design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lisa received her Master of Architectural Design degree from The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London which was preced ...

Pablo Elliott, a graduate of Vassar College, is entering his seventh year as director of the Local Food Project at Airlie, a 4acre demonstration organic garden at the Airlie Center in Warrenton, Virginia. The Local Food Project at Airlie provides yearround vegetables, fruits, and herbs to the Airlie Center kitchen while educating guests and the regional community about sustainable agriculture through garden tours, workshops, and an annual conference. To learn more about the Local Food Project at Airlie, visit www.airlie.com.

Lawrence Ellis is a spiritual activist and complexity-science consultant operating at the intersection of ecological and human rights concerns – with early training in both fields on a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University. His life-work focuses on assisting individuals, groups, organizations and movements apply concepts of & practices for embodying the interconnectedness of life – drawn largely from contemporary complexity sciences, Buddhism and Indigenous cultures (informed by his African and Native American ancestral backgrounds). He is Executive Producer & Host of the Indigenous Wis ...

Gabriel Elsner is currently the Campaign Director for the California Student Sustainability Coalition. During the fall 2010 elections, Gabriel helped to mobilize the youth vote and soundly defeat the dirty energy proposition, Prop. 23. Under his leadership, the CSSC reached over 500,000 voters and exposed big oil companies funding the "Yes on 23" campaign through both online and offline strategies. He previously served as a Policy Fellow with 1Sky, and chaired the Clean Energy Works Youth Table while working as the Global Warming Solutions coordinator for the Student Public Interest Research G ...

Holly Elzinga, owner and founder of Fair Earthhas been working with artisans in East Africa for the past 7 years. Fair Earth is dedicated to advocating fairness and equity in the consumer market, producing high quality products, and putting people first. Holly also serves on the board for Chicago Fair Trade, a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering the fair trade movement and making Chicago an international fair trade city.

A native Seattleite, as a young girl Embleton moved with her family to their Montana farm. She earned a bachelors degree in political economy of natural resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and a masters degree in applied economics from Montana State University, Bozeman. Embleton taught economics and conducted research at Montana State University prior to moving back to Seattle in 1989, where she got involved in land use, environmental planning and community development. In 1997 she participated in meetings of local food system stakeholders to help create a unified voice for ...

Emily Fernandez is a key member of Fair Trade Los Angeles (FTLA). She has been with the organization since it's beginning in 2005. In 2007, she chaired the Just Lives Festival, a city-wide festival celebrating the fair trade, buy-local and sweat-free movements. She has been the community organizer for Fair Trade Pasadena (FTP) for the last two years. FTP has been working to make Pasadena the first Fair Trade Town in Southern California, and, as of August 2011, FTP is near completion of the Fair Trade Towns criteria. She is also an adjunct English instructor at Glendale Community College and a ...

Jay-E Emmingham studied publishing and journalism as an undergraduate, and finished her graduate degree in business with interests in sustainable business management. She worked in retail advertising before spending four years as a marketing coordinator at a well-known energy efficiency firm where she learned about sustainability and energy policy. In Portland, Jay-E volunteered at the local Junior Achievement chapter teaching high school students about economics and computer applications. At Pratt Center, she is now continuing her career path in the energy efficiency industry, and hopes to h ...

Matthew and Terces Engelhart are coowners of Cafe Gratitude, an organic raw vegan restaurant. The couple also lead workshops in sacred commerce, abundance and relationships. Together they created The Abounding River logbook and boardgame, and are stewards of Laulima Farm.Matthew Engelharts business ventures always aspire to shake up the existing paradigm. His Flax Clothing line he grew from a one treadle sewing machine to a 28 million dollar a year business. This all C.O.D. company (unheard of in the garment industry) was run out of an old dairy barn in central N.Y.In the next insurrection, he ...

Sarah Engelhart, bakery manager for over four years, at local Cafe Gratitude, is deeply passionate about the healing qualities of food. A student of life, she brings sweetness and gratitude to all that she does. Café Gratitude is a collection of 100% organic vegan restaurants specializing in gourmet raw and cooked cuisines, whose produce comes from their very own farm in Vacaville, CA (Be Love Farm). Café Gratitude has created a menu that promotes consciousness and sustainability for our well-being and health as well as the planet and all of its inhabitants. Cafe staff practice business thro ...

Engleman, author of More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want, is vice president for programs at the Worldwatch Institute, a globally focused environmental research organization in DC.

Jim is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Blue Ridge Produce, an aggregator of Virginia grown fruits and vegetables for sale to wholesale buyers in the Washington, DC metropolitan region, Customers include supermarkets, food service companies and regional distributors. He is the founder and Chairman of a family investment firm based in Washington D.C. where he has worked for the last 30 years. The firm has a highly diversified investment base in stocks, bonds, real estate, private equity and venture capital. The firm also manages tax and estate planning for the family. He has been involved in eve ...

After years working in an academic setting doing agricultural research, Benny Erez brings knowledge of theoretical and practical farming technology to ECO City Farms. He is passionate about the need to wean ourselves off the gas-guzzling commercial fertilizers and replace them with sustainably produced compost. His experience with composting technology comes from years of managing the University of Maryland Central Maryland Research and Education Center Compost Facility and visits to Austrian compost enterprises. Erez’s first-hand knowledge of the power of community comes from his experience ...

Since 1986, Smith has been serving sustainability and social responsibility minded investors. Smith is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER practitioner, ACCREDITED INVESTMENT FIDUCIARY, and is Senior Wealth Officer at Goodfunds Wealth Management, a Branch Office of Seattlebased KMS Financial Services, Inc. Smith will serve as the moderator for this panel joined by Leslie Christian, Maura Rendes and Pam Rivers.

When Erica Fernandez found out that a liquefied natural gas facility was proposed for the coast of Oxnard and Malibu with a 36inch pipeline routed through lowincome neighborhoods, she was outraged. She worked in concert with the Sierra Club and Latino No on LNG group to mobilize the youth and Latino voice in protests and public meetings. She organized weekly protests at the BHP Billiton offices in Oxnard, met regularly with community members, marched through neighborhoods that would be most impacted, reached out to the media, and brought more than 250 high school students to a critical rally. ...

Yvette Ervin’s green business is sol therepe organics.Her green body care line uses over 90% certified organic ingredients and the packaging is recyclable. She also has a blog were she writes every week about everything related to a green lifestyle especially as it relates to beauty and the environment. As an international model, cosmetics muse and entrepreneur, Yvette Ervin has amassed impressive beauty insider experience. Her beauty career spans over 14 years. You may recognize her from ad campaigns which helped caltipult her success. It was in Africa that Yvette first learned of the amaz ...

David Escobar is a Salvadoran born of the indigenous group called the Lenca-Poton. David grew up in the Mission and Excelsior Districts of San Francisco. His own ethnic heritage provides David with a special understanding of the complex racial and cultural issues that prevail in this community. David is currently organizing efforts to educate and develop cultural competency among the social service agencies in Marin and throughout the Bay Area as it pertains to indigenous people. In this regards David has co-produced several quarterly trilingual shows which aired on KPFA Radio 94.1 FM entitled ...

Senator Escutia (Retired) is a former member of the California State Assembly and State Senate and is a co-founding member of The Senators (Ret.) Firm, LLP. Her law and consulting practice focuses on government and regulatory matters, with a particular emphasis on telecommunications, education /instructional materials and health-related issues. Senator Escutia was first elected to the California Legislature in 1992. In 1998 she was elected to the California Senate. In 2000 she was the first Latina appointed as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. As an Assemblywoman, Escutia was the first ...

Rudy Espinoza es Oficial Mayor del Programa para la Iniciativa de Desarrollo de la Economía Local en el Centro de Recursos Financieros para la Comunidad (Community Financial Resource Center - CFRC), una Institución de Desarrollo Financiero para la Comunidad del Sur de Los Ángeles. Rudy maneja una nueva iniciativa en CFRC que provee asistencia en negocios y micro-préstamos a vendedores callejeros que están interesados en vender comidas saludables en “desiertos de comida” de bajo nivel económico. El programa maneja el préstamo-en-grupo de CFRC, “Asociados de Capital,” y trabaja co ...

Through a river of cosmic circumstances rises Love Eternal "Music for an Awakening World." More than just a band, Love Eternal is a collective of Musician/Spiritual Practitioners who have dedicated their lives to healing themselves and the world through music. They live, create music and raise their children together in the Santa Cruz mountains, under a Redwood canopy as a communal family, which lends to their tightly woven musicianship.Love Eternal's healing sound combines Roots Reggae and Acoustic Rock with a continuous rhythmic stream of beautifully sung lyrics that remind us that Peace, Co ...

Jill Ettinger is a Los Angeles based writer, editor and photographer regularly featured on Organic Authority, Reality Sandwich and Sunwarrior News. Her focus on food, herbs, wellness and world culture blends the mystical and modern as she explores what our shifting agricultural landscapes and healing systems will look--and taste--like in the future. She was published in the anthologies "Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age" and "What Do You Believe?" Her work has also appeared in publications including The Village Voice, MTV, and Global Rhythm. Alongside Baza Novic, Jill is co-director o ...

Aleksandra Evanguelidi, LM, CPM, is a California Licensed Midwife and Certified Professional Midwife, since July 2006. Aleksandra co-founded The Sanctuary Birth & Family Wellness Center, a home birth practice and midwifery training program. She has been a nutritionist for the last 10 years, and has spent many moons holding sacred space for women and couples during Blessing way ceremonies and wedding rituals. The work Aleks does as a spiritual counselor is interwoven into her unique style of midwifery. Aleksandra is passionately committed to bringing knowledge of self-care to families so that t ...

Evans is a visionary leader, astute strategist, activist and social entrepreneur who has founded three organizations and was recently appointed president and CEO of the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO), the national voice and trade association for microenterprise in the U.S.

Jodie Evans is a co-founder of CODEPINK and has been a peace, environmental, women’s rights and social justice activist for forty years. She has traveled extensively to war zones promoting and learning about peaceful resolution to conflict. She served in the administration of Governor Jerry Brown and ran his presidential campaign. She has published two books, Stop the Next War Now and Twilight of Empire, and has produced several documentary films, including the Oscar-nominated “The Most Dangerous Man in America” and Howard Zinn’s “The People Speak.” Jodie is the board chair of Wom ...

Nakysier Evans is a junior at CCA Academy. She has recently started working with aquaponics and is one of the main students involved in CCA's soap making endeavors.

Melissa Everett has made a career of helping people, organizations and communities figure out their futures. As a counselor, coach, facilitator, educator, and nonprofit manager, she has worked in parallel with individuals and large systems, always with a focus on sustainable solutions for people, communities and the planet. The author of three books and many articles, she has a PhD from Erasmus University in the Netherlands. She directs Sustainable Hudson Valley (www.sustainhv.org).

Since 1997, Malía Everette has been the Director of Global Exchange's popular and rapidly expanding Reality Tours program. During her tenure at Global Exchange's Reality Tours she has overseen the growth and development of alternative travel programs, study seminars and fact finding human rights delegations to 40 destinations around the world. From the US, to Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and the Caribbean, Malía promotes in-depth experiential education and socially responsible travel as an alternative to the type of "sun and fun" tourism that often results in cultural ...

Agrippa O. Ezozo is the Founder and President of The African Diaspora Foundation, former Co-Chair of the California delegation to the National Summit on Africa (Washington, D.C.), a Benefits Analyst at the office of Benefits Services at Campus Human Resources at UCLA, publisher of the Black Church Review magazine; and Past Executive Director of the League of Patriotic Nigerians in Los Angeles, CA. He was born in Nigeria where he earned a degree in public education from Wudil Teacher's College in Kano State, Nigeria, and subsequently became a teacher at Kundila Primary School in Kano, Nigeria b ...