Green Festival

James Faber has a B.A. in Journalism with a concentration in reporting on health, science and the environment from Columbia College Chicago. He began working at Conscious Choice magazine in Chicago as an editorial intern in 1997, and became full-time in October 1998 as the magazine transitioned from publishing bi-monthly to monthly. While progressing through four ownership changes from 1998-2009, he worked as associate editor, senior editor and managing editor, before taking on the role of production manager in early 2001. In this role, he was responsible for producing nearly 100 issues of the ...

Years ago, Karen Fahey safely and gently transitioned to eating mostly fresh, living foods. Her health improved dramatically, her energy increased and she was graced with new ideas and insights. She’s now excited to help create such dramatic, tangible results for others in this inspiring demonstration.

Dr. Edward Fajardo is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice. Working primarily with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) adolescents and adults, he specializes in providing LGBT-affirmative individual and couples therapy. He is also a featured columnist for Windy City Times, writing on mental health issues of relevance to the gay community. During his free time, he likes to read, play Scrabble, and spend time with his partner and dog.

Founding Director of the Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Association, Falbos natural interests in creating a balanced world between human development, our respect for the environment and social responsibility have become her professional journey. Recipient of a 2007 echievement Award from etown, Falbo has been on the forefront of the sustainability movement in Colorado for the last decade.

Jeremy Faludi (LEED AP), is a sustainable design strategist and researcher. He teaches green design at Stanford University, where he created the graduate/undergraduate class ME221: Green Design Tools and Metrics, and at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He is also the sustainability expert and researcher for Project FROG, the leader in modular green buildings for schools and commercial applications. He has worked for Rocky Mountain Institute, The Biomimicry Institute, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, among others. A bicycle he helped design has appeared in the CooperHewitt Nat ...

Chair of the Board of Death Penalty Focus, Farrell is also spokesperson for Concern America, an international refugee aid and development organization, CoChair Emeritus of the California Committee of Human Rights Watch and, occasionally, a Good Will Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Known to millions as B.J. Hunnicutt of televisions historic M-A-S-H and from NBCTVs Providence, he is also the producer of Universal Pictures hit Patch Adams,A refugee aid and human rights activist for 30 years, Farrell first traveled to the Thai/Cambodian border in 1980. In the fol ...

Margaret Farrow is one of the owner/operators of the Biofuel Oasis, a Biodiesel fueling station in Berkeley Ca. that specializes in selling fuel made from recycled vegetable oil.

Faste began agitating for a better foreign policy during the Vietnam era, and slowly moved toward what could be done locally. Faste was drawn to Sustainable Ballard by intelligent discussion of peak oil, climate change, and local economy. While Fastenow focuses on growing food and energy efficiency, she is still agitating for better government choices.

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.

Fawcett is a writer and independent scholar. He is founder and president of the Sustainable Health Institute (a newly formed organization dedicated to social change through health education), publisher of the Progressive Health Observer: A News Commentary Alternative to Big Box Medicine, and coproducer of the Your Own Health And Fitness radio show, to which he regularly contributes. His PhD in environmental economics and political economy is from UC Riverside.

Hans was the first licensed Illinois Realtor in Northeast Illinois to have earned the LEED AP (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional) designation. He is a real estate design and development consultant with over 4 years experience in residential singlefamily and multifamily properties, including several current designs that utilize environmentally responsible and sustainable principles.The range of projects has included everything from master subdivision design to condominium remodels and everything in between. He is active with the United States Green Building C ...

GroundUp is a teenbased wastewatersoil management training project that supports urban gardening in Seattle's Yesler neighborhood. FEEST (Food Education Empowerment and Sustainability Team) is a youthrun program out of Youngstown Cultural Arts Center. Both are engaging youth in the food system and creating livingwage green employment and educational opportunities for lowincome youth of color in urban centers. Find out how!

Formerly an award-winning producer and executive in the motion picture and television industry, Phil has dedicated himself to fair trade as a sustainable solution to global poverty since participating in a church-sponsored immersion trip to Nicaragua in 2008. In 2009 he established Fair Trade Express, a small Long Beach-based importer and retailer of fair trade products, primarily from Latin America. As part of his fair trade commitment, he has helped establish an ongoing curriculum-based partnership between the Fashion Design Department at Long Beach City College and a Fair Trade, sweat-free, ...

Sharon Feigon is the CEO of IGO Car Sharing, an affiliate organization of the Center for Neighborhood Technology. Since taking the helm two years ago, she has tripled the size of this innovative company and brought in many new partnerships and resources. IGO is on track to continue its record growth this year, providing access to lowemission cars in Chicago area neighborhoods. IGO currently has 51 cars and over 2000 members.Nearly half the members have sold a car since joining the program and each car share car replaces 610 cars on the road resulting in multiple environmental benefits to the r ...

Feinstein had given little thought to climate change until he met a small town North Dakota farmer during a crosscountry bicycle trip in 2000. This farmer shared his deep concerns about the shifts he was seeing in weather and this conversation changed Feinstein's life. The following spring, Feinstein graduated from the University of Illinois in Chicago with a BA in Sociology and began teaching in his hometown of Evanston, IL at Rice Children's Center. More than 80% of all children attending this school were wards of the state and lived in a residential facility attached to the school. Despite ...

Michael Feinstein is a former Santa Monica Mayor and City Councilmember and a writer, author and radio host. Feinstein made his mark in office working on affordable housing, tenant protection, environmental health and sustainability, parks and open space, human-scale development, civil liberties and living wages. A co-founder of the Green Party of California and a former national Green Party co-chair, currently he serves as spokesperson for the Green Party of California.

Dave Feldman is executive director of Bethesda Green, a dynamic community initiative that is home to the first green business incubator and education center in the region. He is CEO of Livability Project a consulting and education firm that helps community leaders build livable, sustainable communities. Previously, Feldman was Consul, Trade & Investment at the British Embassy, leading a team that helped US companies establish operations in the UK and UK companies export to the US. In 2009, Dave was named one of “The 25 CEOs You Need to Know” by The Gazette of Politics and Business and � ...

Paul Fenn is Chairman and CEO of Local Power Inc. (localpower.com), based in Oakland.Over the past fourteen years, Paul Fenn has developed a matrix of market structures and strategies to make possible an exponential scaling up and accelerated development of renewable energy and demandside energy technology.Fenn authored California's 2002 Community Choice law, Assembly Bill 117, allowing municipalities to choose alternative electricity providers for their communities.Fenn also wrote San Francisco's 2001 solar bond or H Bond authority Proposition H and the 50 MW San Francisco Solar Power Facilit ...

Tellur Fenner is a clinical herbalist/educator and has traveled the country extensively while studying, collecting, and using plant medicines from all the major U.S. bioregions. He has attended the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine, the American School of Herbalism, and the California School of Herbal Studies. Tellur is an avid camper/hiker, a skilled and experienced outdoor trip leader, and is a certified Wilderness First Responder. As an herbalist of the generalist persuasion, he believes in the importance of an interdisciplinary practice which integrates botany, pharmacy, physiology, a ...

Tracy Fernandez Rysavy is Editor for Coop America, a national nonprofit helping people use their economic power for a more socially just and environmentally sustainable society. In addition to Coop America publications, her articles on various aspects of the progressive movement have appeared in Utne, Yes!, Satya, and Audubon. She also writes a regular column called Spirit of Money for Body + Soul magazine.

Fernandois specializing in developing open collaboration frameworks to assist organizations to use the principles of open collaboration more effectively. Fernando's focus is on both theenterprise space as well as the social service space. In addition to his work with Radical Inclusion, Fernando is cofounder ofOpenKollab, an open collaboration initiative that is developing a community of practice as well as tools and processes to foster collaboration amongst organizations with aligned missions. Previously Fernando built and managed a private client investment advisory business, managing $30 mil ...

Cassandra Ferrera is an owner and the Chief Community Officer of Green Key Real Estate, and a National Association of REALTORS® Green Designee. Cassandra is an active agent in Sonoma County, and Green Key’s North Bay sales office manager. She infuses her real estate practice with her passion for community and sustainable lifestyles. Her clients enjoy her systems approach to creating an integrated lifestyle and her extensive professional network of allies. Cassandra has been actively exploring home and community since the early 90’s, with an interdisciplinary degree in Humane Structur ...

Mark Fick is the Senior Loan / Program Officer with the Chicago Community Loan Fund where he is responsible for bringing financing to affordable housing, cooperatives and social enterprise development throughout the greater Chicagoland area. He recently became a co-founder of the Center for Workplace Democracy which supports the development of worker owned and cooperative businesses in Chicago. PreviouslyMark worked as the Associate Director of the Chicago Mutual Housing Network and as Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator with the Statewide Housing Action Coalition (now Housing Acti ...

Julia Field is Founder and Director of Undriving™, a non-profit organization that reduces car use by empowering people to make more conscious, active transportation choices. The innovative Undriver Licensing™ program sparks curiosity and effectively drives behavior change. Field’s own Undriving journey began unexpectedly in 2004, when she totaled her trusty 1987 Civic that would have been good for another 100K miles. Much to her surprise, she quickly discovered the many joys of living without a car - and her community involvement led to Undriving's launch in 2007. Since then Undriving ha ...

Inspired by her experiences as a single working mother in a marginalized community Executive Director Tanya Fields created and founded the BLK ProjeK in 2009.Tanya used her experiences as an underserved, low income woman and mother to inform and enrich the work of several high profile local environmental organizations such as Mothers on the Move, Sustainable South Bronx and the Majora Carter Group. Tanya utilized her network, resources and knowledge to create the BLK Projek. The BLK ProjeK seeks to create economic development opportunities that address food justice, environmental justice and ...

Fiesta Colorado Dance Company is the premierHispanic Dance Company in Colorado. It has presented the highestquality performances of Mexican Folkloric, Flamenco and SpanishClassical Dance shown in Colorado for over 30 years. The Founder andArtistic Director is Jeanette TrujilloLucero. Fiesta Colorado Dance Company is a nonprofit organization with amission to present and preserve the Hispanic dance arts. Since itsinception, every performance with its magnetic energy and vivaciouschoreography has been a demonstration of how these dances embody therichest artistic manifestations of culture and tra ...

Rachelle Figueroa is the Clan Mother of the Yamassee Tribe. She is also founder of the Morning Star Foundation, which is committed to creating public awareness for the protection and preservation of Native and Indigenous Nations on Mother Earth. The Morning Star Foundation and the GrandMothers Council have been working together for eight years to support traditional elders, protect sacred sites & burial grounds, and preserve sacred teachings, sacred ceremony and our Mother Earth. The Morning Star Foundation is committed to bringing Native & Indigenous knowledge to the general public. Throu ...

Sarah Filley, who hails from Ann Arbor, MI, is the Co-founder of popuphood (with Alfonso Dominguez.) After her studies at California College of Arts, she chose to stay in Oakland. She is an artist, designer, writer, curator and public speaker, and lover of big ideas. Her fine art practice began with sculpture and photography and expanded to installations and public art. This evolution continued to expand repositioning her role as an artist from the margins of cultural production to the center of urban design and social innovation. Her interdisciplinary background serves as a foundation to br ...

After being raised in the East Coast suburbs on Dominoes Pizza and Brady Bunch reruns, Doug Fine's method of journalistic investigation was to strap on a backpack and travel to five continents; to the nooks where the world's monied media venues weren't sending their people. These venues tended to be delighted to have a whippersnapper beam back colorful dispatches for poorlyremunerated publication as long as he didn't identify himself as an employee of said venues. Complicated insurance ramifications for torture treatment might ensue.As a young freelancer, Fine reported in this manner for the W ...

Jessica FinnCoven joined the Climate Solutions team in 2007 to serve as the policy specialist, working to ensure strong policies are passed and implemented to protect the climate. Prior to joining Climate Solutions, Jessica worked for several years at the U.S. Climate Action Network and was a global warming campaigner for Greenpeace in Washington DC, where her work focused on pressuring the U.S. to rejoin the international community in finding solutions to climate change. Jessica received her MA in economics and energy policy from the Johns Hopkins University and her BA from Barnard College, C ...

Michael Finney has worked for the Oneida Tribe since 1990 in the Environmental and Environmental Planning Areas. In the 1980's he worked with Solar Energy companies and with on Passive solar and superinsulated homes. He spent a little time with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources along the way.He believes sustainabilty will be the greatest challenge of thiscentury but as we come together around this challenge it can lead toa world in which all our lives are better. And there is no betterplace to start then in our communities.

Greg Fischer has been a winemaker and brewer for over 30 years, and a meadmaker for over 20 years. He is the owner of Wild Blossom Meadery & Winery, and Beverage Art Brewer & Winemaker Supply in Chicago. He has been a beekeeper for as long as he has been making wine, since 1966. Educated with a BA degree in Agriculture-Business at Universities in New York and Kentucky, he later worked for large producers of honey in Florida, North Dakota and Washington State. His travels, including Europe, brought an understanding of bee keeping and organic produce. He further developed his knowledge of wine b ...

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 ...

Allison Fisher is the Organizer for Public Citizen's Energy Program. She works on issues associated with nuclear power and promotes renewable energy and energy efficiency as a means to displace the need for dirty energy sources. Allison earned her master's degree in social workcommunity organizing from the University of Connecticut.

Born in Milford On-Sea, England, Frances Fisher’s itinerant childhood in Columbia, Canada, France, Brazil, Turkey, Italy and in various locations around the U.S. undoubtedly provided fodder for her thespian career. After graduating from high school in Orange, Texas, Frances cut her teeth acting on Tennessee Williams and Robert Bolt in Orange Community Theater. She also apprenticed at the Barter Theatre in Virginia before moving to New York City where her career quickly blossomed. Ms. Fisher has starred in over 30 theatrical productions including Fool For Love, Desire Under the Elms, Cat on ...

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.

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.

As Global Exchange's Fair Trade campaign director, Adrienne reaches out to chocolate lovers and chocolate makers alike to help create a world in which we are all free to enjoy guilt-free chocolate. Adrienne also campaigns for conflict-free diamonds, and was part of the Global Exchange coordinated coalition for sweat-free legislation in San Francisco. Adrienne has engaged in advocacy toward both corporations and government to create a flourishing international economy at home and abroad that is truly the catalyst for promoting democracy and human rights, protecting the environment, securing pea ...

Paul Fitzgerald is a Mechanic at Working Bikes, where he teaches classes, coordinates the volunteer program,and assists cyclists through storefront’s Service & Repair Shop.Born on the South side of Chicago, he has been an educator for many years.His ability to use common-place analogy combined with his simple to perform bicycle repairsteps, equip students with confidence to take the tools into their own hands.His days as a youth coordinator for Chicago Freedom School, After School Mattersand as Social-Emotional Learning Coordinator for Children’s Home + Aid at Lowell Elementary inHu ...

Melissa Fitzgerald is a dynamic actress producer and social activist. Her acting career has included film, theater and television in New York and Los Angeles. She is best known for playing the role of Carol on NBC’s award-winning political drama The West Wing. Her film roles include, This is Not a Test, Simple Things, Monument Avenue, Frequency, and Love and Sex. She is currently starring in the web series Chasing The Hill. Earlier in her theatrical career, Melissa attended the prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse School of The Theatre, where she studied with Sanford Meisner. Melissa work ...

Music is supposed to inspire, but in a time when radio stations play songs that are all but inspiring, what do we do? We turn within to find that inspiration, and that is just whatFIYAWATA members, Ambessa the Articulate and Zakiya Harris do, and it shows through their audible delights. Hailing from two coasts, Ambessa from Brooklyn, NYC and Zakiya from Oakland, CA, these two have brought their talents together to the Bay Area and with their team of spectacular musicians they've formed the super power force called FIYAWATA.Their sound consists of harmonious blends of hiphop, reggae, soul and a ...

An author and broadcaster for more than 20 years, Flanders is the host of GRIT TV, the new news and culture discussion program online, on satellite and on cable TV. GRIT TV can also be seen on theNation.org. Flanders is the author of Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics Back from the Politicians (The Penguin Press, 2007) and The New York Times bestseller BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004), an expose of women in George W. Bush's cabinet. As part of the original lineup on Air America Radio, Flanders hosted The Laura Flanders Show and RadioNation. She also launched the a ...

Flax has focused her energy on working with the community to foster open communication and environmental education since leaving academia and moving to Whidbey Island in 2006. Flax is currently the main Transition Whidbey Coordinator and is helping the organization grow and refine its commitment to the community and resiliency of Whidbey Island.

Fletcher managed a 1000 acre Organic farm in Virginia with 800 Laying hens. He now owns Countryside Organic, one of Americas largest Organic mail order feed company. They sell Organic Farm and Garden Products.

Manny Flores is the new chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission whose focus is on green initiatives and expanding broadband Internet access. Flores was elected to the Chicago City Council from the city's 1st Ward in 2003. He is an attorney and a member of the council's committee for Energy, Environmental Protection and Public Utilities.

Antonio Flores Quin is originally from Quinceo Michoac

Sandra Fluke is an American women's rights activist. In February 2012, she came to attention in the United States when Republicans refused to allow her to testify to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the importance of requiring insurance plans to cover birth control during a discussion on whether insurance should have a contraception mandate. She later spoke to only House Democratic members. Commenting on her testimony, Rush Limbaugh, a talk show host, made inflammatory comments about Fluke on his talk show, consisting of speculation and slurs regarding her sex life. Fluke ...

Emma Fofanah, Senior Social Investment Research Analyst, from Institutional Shareholder Services. Ms. Fofanah conducts social screening of major corporations in areas such as labor relations and diversity, consumer product safety, and animal welfare issues. She will provide an overview of Socially Responsible Investing (SRI), discuss key SRI topics, and highlight some of the latest trends in corporate policies affecting workers and consumers.

Located in Oakland, CA, the non-profit East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse is an ecological treasure trove of art and craft materials, educational supplies, vintage furniture, home décor, paper goods, fabric and much more. Founded in 1979 by two Oakland public school teachers, the Depot promotes solid waste diversion and resource conservation through the Depot Store and environmental education programs. The mission of the East Bay Depot is to divert waste materials from landfills by collecting and redistributing discarded goods as low-cost supplies for art, education and social services in the ...

Erin Ford is the Special Projects Coordinator at CROPP Cooperative/Organic Valley, working on various initiatives both nationwide and local; from Domestic Fair Trade to sustainability and green business practices. She is a member of the Domestic Fair Trade Steering Committee, Secretary on the Board of Directors for the Vernon County Economic Development Association, and an environmental activist in many facets of her personal life. She currently resides on her 20 acre homestead in Wisconsin with herpartner Eric, where they grow their own food, produce maple syrup,raise pigs, bees and 2 little ...

A personal chef in Los Angeles, Monica Ford caters to celebrities seeking a healthy life and vibrant appearance in the midst of fast-paced careers, and with health practitioners who believe Real Food is an important building block for lasting health in their patients. Raised in a family whose love of food infused every meal, Monica brings this same love, excitement and appreciation to her cheffing and teaches classes on traditional foods like Yogurt, Kombucha, Lacto-Fermented Sodas, Sauerkraut, Kimchee, Sourcing Food Locally, Home Cooking and more. Monica's Mantra? Get Real. Be Well.

Seamus Ford is the Co-Founder of Root-Riot Urban Garden Network. Root-Riot focuses on strengthening community while raising food consciousness and facilitating the development of sustainable micro-enterprises. In 2010 Root-Riot won Mayor Daley's Green Works Community Leadership Award. Seamus lives on the West Side of Chicago and is passionate about connecting people with opportunities and making sustainability a central community value.

Stacie Ford-Bonnelle has worked as a volunteer coordinator for nine years, since her arrival to Seattle from Los Angeles. In 2007, she began to work for Ten Thousand Villages of Seattle, a fair trade retailer. Stacie also heads up the Seattle Fair Trade Towns campaign.

Patricia Foreman is cohost of the Chicken Whisperer Backyard Poultry and Sustainable Lifestyles. She is also talk show author of Chicken Tractor, City Chicks, Day Range Poultry and Backyard Market Gardening. For more information visit: www.GoodEarthPublications.com

The Colorado State Forest Service is a division of Colorado StateUniversity and only one of five state forest services from across thenation that is managed by a public university.The mission of the Colorado State Forest Service is to provide for thestewardship of forest resources and to reduce related risks to life,property and the environment for the benefit of present and futuregenerations.Together with other natural resource organizations, CSFS strives toprovide comprehensive support for the care of the natural environment.This exchange of technical assistance and information among coopera ...

Alex Forsythe has been a demo chef for the Culinary Institute of America. Currently, Chef Forsythe is re-creating the world-famous “Joy of Cooking” author Irma Rombauer’s 1939 cookbook, Streamlined Cooking. He offers innovative healthy cookery demos that recognize the foods from the past, are in the present, and continue toward the future.

Marueen Forte is the Executive Director at The National Action Network Chicago Chapter.

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 ...

Dr. Ariele Foster, DPT, E-RYT is one of 20 athletes sponsored by Athleta in 2012, a Doctor of Physical Therapy and an earth-loving, bike riding, veggie-chowing redheaded sunbeam who has been teaching Kripalu-based vinyasa flow since 2001. She grew up practicing yoga with her grandma (Lilo) and recently stepped down as a full-time eco-justice activist to be a steward of the wild ecosystem of the human body.

The Morning Star Foundation andthe GrandMothers Council have been working together forseven years to support Traditional Elders, protectSacred Sites & Burial Grounds and preserve Sacred Teachings,Sacred Ceremonyand our Mother Earth. The Morning Star Foundation is committed to bringing Native & Indigenous knowledge to the general public. Through education, knowledge can be turned into action. Through action, community andgenerosity will flourish. Compassion, Unity and Love arequalitiesof a true“human being”andthis is the mission of the GrandMothers Council and Morning Star Founda ...

Rev. Fowler is a speaker in demand in Michigan. The Detroit organization she leads

Liana Foxvog is the National Organizer of SweatFree Communities, a network of grassroots campaigns that organize for a just global economy by using institutional purchasing as a lever for worker justice. A social change activist since high school, she also serves on smartMeme's Strategy Training and Organizing Resources for Youth (STORY) board.

Phil Fram, VP Sales and Marketing, at Quadlogic, has over 30 years of experience in B2B. Prior to Quadlogic, Phil was VP Marketing at Marinco Corp., an international manufacturer of industrial and marine components. Phil has successful experience in the technical product development process, and in marketing. Phil holds an AAS EE and BSBA from RIT and an MBA from Babson.

John Francis, Ph.D., is known the world over as the Planetwalker. In 1971, John witnessed an oil spill in the San Francisco Bay. The effects of the spill compelled John to stop using motorized vehicles. Several months later, to stop the arguments about the power of one persons actions, he took a vow of silence.

Susan joined The Better World Group – a firm recognized for its background and expertise in policy and communications strategy – in January 2008 as Executive Vice President, and is based in the company’s Silicon Valley office. She is known statewide for her expertise in public policy development, coalition management and nonprofit lobbying/advocacy, having served as CEO and in several senior-level roles in nonprofit organizations over the last 20-plus years. Previously, Susan served as the President & CEO of the Bay Area-based Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation and, before that, Presid ...

A Nisqually Tribal member and chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, Frank has spent much of his life advocating for human rights for all.

Frankel is the Founder and CEO of The Greener Cleaner Chicago.Frankel is an American pioneer in professional wetcleaning technology, the only method endorsed by the E.P.A., the Union of Concerned Scientists and Green Peace. Frankel shares how his company, The Greener Cleaner, has met the challenges of misinformation in the drycleaning business. Says Frankel, What you don't know about drycleaning chemicals can hurt you, our environment... and also your garments. Prior to founding The Greener Cleaner in 1995, Frankel served as COO and CEO in the industries of freight, and in medical care. Franke ...

Heather Franzese has been working for over 12 years to improve the lives of vulnerable farmers and workers in global supply chains. In 2010, she launched Fair Trade USA’s Fair Trade Certified™ Apparel & Linens program in the US, a new way for consumers to vote with their dollars for an alternative to sweatshops. She currently leads Good World Solutions, a social enterprise that uses mobile technology to improve the lives of workers, farmers, and artisans. Heather brings together industry experience managing CSR for Columbia Sportswear Company’s licensed and collegiate categories, a fund ...

Philip Fraser is an international Art of Living instructor who has taught yoga and mediation for the past 22 years. Philip first learned the art of meditation when he was seven years old and has been practicing ever since. He studied music and composition in New York City, plays several instruments and has mastered a bamboo flute.

Eric Corey Freed, LEED AP, Hon. FIGP, is Principal of organicARCHITECT, an architecture and consulting firm in California, with nearly 20 years of experience in green building. Eric codeveloped the Sustainable Design programs at the Academy of Art University and University of California Berkeley Extension. He is on the boards of Architects, Designers ; Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR), Green Home Guide and West Coast Green, as well as the advisory boards of nearly a dozen other organizations. He was the founding Chair of Architecture for The San Francisco Design Museum and one of ...

Mr. Freeman leads Calvert's Sustainability Research Department and oversees its company research and analysis as well as its policy and advocacy work. From 2003 until early 2006, he led Burson-Marsteller's Global Corporate Responsibility practice advising multinationals on policy development, stakeholder engagement and communications strategies related to human rights, labor rights and sustainable development. During the Clinton Administration he served in three positions as a presidential appointee in the State Department, most recently as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rig ...

Freeman is the executive director of the New Organizing Institute, a training, research and development organization for technologyenabled organizers, activists, staff and leaders.

FreemanGleason founded Environmental Home Center in 1991 and served as CEO until June 2000. He opened the business (originally called EnviResource) in Bainbridge Island, Washington, in 1991, and moved it to Seattle three years later when it outgrew its tiny quarters. While building the core of business that has grown to become ecohaus, FreemanGleason had responsibility for every aspect of the operation, including planning, retailstore management, purchasing, logistics, merchandising, personal, customer service, and financial control. In 2000 FreemanGleason took the company thru its first round ...

Omar Freilla is an environmental justice activist, cooperative developer, and founder and coordinator of Green Worker Cooperatives in the Bronx. Raised in the South Bronx, where he continues to live, Omar Freilla is passionate about creating a green and democratic economy. He is nationally recognized as a leading voice for worker ownership, green jobs, and environmental justice and is founder and coordinator of Green Worker Cooperatives, an organization dedicated to incubating green and worker-owned businesses in the Bronx. Freilla brings to his work years of experience challenging environmen ...

Julie Freitas has been a doula and childbirth educator for the past 37 years.She teaches private childbirth education classes, and also works at the Westside Family Clinic, where she educates parents-to-be planning to deliver at UCLA and utilize Certified Nurse Midwives. Julie Freitas is the mother of three grown children, Terence, Kian, and Jennifer, and carries with her thewisdom derivedfrom her own home births withbothdoctors and midwives. Her child-raising experiences include being an active part of the Waldorf School Community and later transitioning her children into public schools. ...

Devorah Freudiger got a job as a barista in a downtown coffee shop because she thought it would be a fun way to spend her first summer in San Francisco before moving on to bigger and better things. Seven years and six summers later, nothing has been bigger or better to Devorah than the specialty coffee industry. In this time she has had the chance to work with more amazing people than she can count and has tasted coffees that changed her life. Devorah helped to open Ritual Coffee roasters as their first employee where she learned about coffee, barista craft and roasting. It was there that she ...

Freundlich is Director of Strategic Initiatives with Calvert and has been with Calvert Foundation since 1997. Tim conceived of and launched Calvert Giving Fund, the socially responsible donor advised fund.He continues to lead development of the Calvert Giving Fund, and works on special projects such as capitalization, the social enterprise portfolio and large custom investor relationships. Tim helped to prototype Community Investment Partners, an analysis and asset administration group for community development and social enterprise investment. He has also been instrumental in building Calvert ...

Joan Friedlander, owner of Lifework Business Partners, is a published author, professional coach, and skilled facilitator. Joan specializes in working closely with selfemployed parent entrepreneurs working from a homebased office through her BPod program. Working with six business owners at a time, she helps them to scale up to the next phase of growth using a 3pronged approach: improve market positioning, address competing priorities associated with being a parent and business owner, and with building a virtual business team to reduce their personal workload. In all her work Joan champions a ...

Gil Friend is President and CEO of Natural Logic, Inc., helping companies design, implement and measure profitable sustainability strategies. Recent clients have included such companies as Arizona Public Service, Coca Cola, eBay, Hewlett Packard, Levi Straus & Co, Steelcase, SunPower, US General Services Administration and many others.Friend is widely considered one of the founders of the sustainable business movement, and was named an inaugural member of the Sustainability Hall of Fame. He served in the California Governor’s Office, developing early sustainability policies and programs; wa ...

Fristad survived fifteen years as a deckhand on a wide array of vessels and adventures. Fristad chased herring near Togiak, Alaska; crab off the Columbia River; salmon more places than she can remember; and for five years pursued fish in the name of science. Eventually, the tide brought her to Port Townsend, Washington where she continues to write, teach and work as Campus Director of Goddard College. Fristad was a subject in the documentary film, FISHER POETS. Fristad's poems have been published in anthologies and journals including: Rosebud, Americas Review, The Blue Collar Review, Hanging ...

Carin Froehlich is the author of Laundry Wisdom: Instructions for a Greener ; Cleaner Life and believes that our environment will suffer thanks in part to some of the new, stateoftheart, overpriced appliances and thoughtless, damaging products that are being marketed. The first book of its kind, Laundry Wisdom offers fascinating information as well as helpful tips, including how to make costsaving laundry products at home that can do the same job as what the expensive store brands do.Froehlich has added laundry to the American experience thanks to her slim volume that tackles many facets of on ...

Earth Force engages young people as active citizens who improve the environment and their communities now and in the future. NeedEnvironmentIn this era of rapid global change, we face what may be humanitysgreatest challenge. The rate at which humans are changing theenvironment dwarfs all previous experiences in terms of its speed, thescale of its consequences and in the numbers of people who will beaffected. EducationAlarmingly, the generation of Americans that will soon be called uponto address these challengesthose currently in our schoolshave alimited understanding of environmental issues, ...

Aisha Fukushima is a singer, educator, writer and self-proclaimed 'RAPtivist' (rap activist). She has lived and engaged in hip hop communities in France, Japan, Morocco, England, South Africa, Senegal, India and Denmark. Leader of the 'RAPtivism' (rap activism) project, Aisha works to raise awareness around global intersections between hip hop and social justice. Her RAPtivism work has been featured in publications such as Oprah Magazine, The Bangalore Mirror and HYPE : South Africa's#1 Hip Hop Magazine. Aisha has also graced stages from Seattle's historic Paramount Theater to Pirineos Sur in ...

David enjoyed two decades as an entrepreneur in the services and technology sectors before cofounding Our Future Now. Inspired by long journeys at sea on Americas Tall Ship the Coast Guard Barque Eagle, he spent seven years as a business coach and motivational counselor. As a natural implementor, he draws on his deep experience in team building, training and technology.He is accomplished as a project manager with an emphasis on business development, marketing and promotion. Believing that, it takes a village, he has invested his life in service to the community as a builder and guide. David ...

Kari Fulton is an award winning environmental justice advocate and new media journalist. Recently, Fulton was appointed as the Interim Director of the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative. In her previous position as the National Youth Campaign Coordinator for the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (EJCC) Fulton led EJCC’s partnership with the Energy Action Coalition helping to coordinate national campus campaigns and youth summits such as Power Shift 2009; the largest lobby day and youth summit on Climate Change in United States history. The EJCC youth progra ...