Green Festival

Haglund, Founder and President of pioneering garden coaching firm Garden Mentors, Inc. is regarded nationally as a premier garden coach, awardwinning designer, and engaging speaker. Haglund's lectures are peppered with colorful anecdotes derived from her childhood on the farm and her every day garden coaching experiences working handinhand with gardeners empowering them in their gardens. Haglund's garden coaching, design insights and tips for gardening with pets are featured in several media sources including Organic Gardening Magazine, The New York Times, Sunset Magazine, The Seattle Times, D ...

Tammy Halevy is the senior vice president of Membership and New Initiatives at the Association for Enterprise Opportunity, the voice of US microenterprise. AEO members across the country provide capital and business services to underserved entrepreneurs. AEO members are increasingly offering green financing and businessrelated services. In response, AEO has partnered with Green America and Eco Ventures International to evaluate the economic case for the smallest businesses to go green and to channel valuable green resources to micro and small businesses.

Lora Hall got her start as a gardener in Los Angeles with a tiny plot of land in a community garden where she learned about growing both food and community. She now works professionally as a gardener and garden educator with a focus on edible gardening, fruit trees and California appropriate low water use landscapes. Lora also grows food and flowers for some of L.A.’s top restaurants. In 2009, she founded the Los Angeles Urban Chicken Enthusiasts to create a network for those interested in raising chickens in the city. Lorahas a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley and an M.S from Cal Poly Pomona. She l ...

Kathleen Hallal is the Co-Founder of Moms Across America and Moms Across America March to Label GMOs at 4th of July parades. She is an Art Consultant, Public School Foundation Member, Soccer Mom, mother of three boys, one of whom has an autoimmune issue, which led her to become a speaker and educator about GMOs.

Carmen Hallet is the President and founder of EcoVidalDesign, Inc. a company dedicated to sustainable architecture, urban design and planning. Before founding EcoVidalDesign, Carmen worked for the City of Chicago's Department of Planning and Development as a Lakefront and Planned Development Coordinator and as part of Mayor Daley's Green team.

Halpern founded the Center for Law and Social Policy, litigating landmark environmental protection and civil rights cases, and Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action.

As a certified physician’s assistant specializing in nutrition, prevention and integrative medicine, Kirk Hamilton maintains that if there’s one cure all for chronic disease it’s what you eat. With his emphasis on consuming more unprocessed, micronutrient dense plant-food along with simple cross-training and mind/body principles, Kirk has been instrumental in guiding his patients and clients toward the path of optimal health since 1983. As the founder of Clinical Pearls Publications, Kirk provided thousands of summaries of nutrition research and medical interviews to practicing physicia ...

Denise Hamler is Director of the Green Festivals and Coop Americas Business Network. As a cofounder of Coop America, she has held senior positions in the marketing and publications divisions. As a community activist she is part of a local organization which fought the introduction of a WalMart into their community and has subsequently been in negotiations with the company to lessen its environmental impact.

Kaliya Hamlin is the Network Director at Planetwork an organization at the intersection of Information Technology and Social/Environmental good. For over 5 years she has been a leading force in the development of the identity ; social layer of the web with open standards. Her blog is identitywoman.net. She also designs and facilitates unconferences for professional communities seeking to innovate and work collaboratively across companies. Her blog on this topic is unconference.net. In the early 2000's before people knew what social networks were she attempted the development of open source, ...

Representative Hamos serves the 18th District. She is currently Chairof the Mass Transit Committee, having sponsored initiatives such asuniversal broadband and homeless prevention.

Natalie is a Senior at the Chicago High School for Agricultural Science (CHSAS). She always has a smile on her face and enjoys moving around the classroom in her dynamic stander, visiting her classmates and teachers.

Tim is an activist for DC voting rights and an accomplished art teacher. He taught digital arts including screen printing at VisArts in Rockville, MD and at multiple schools as part of their afterschool programs.

Marisa Handler is the author of Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist. Shes a writer, activist, and singersongwriter living in San Francisco. Marisa has worked as an organizer in the global justice and peace movements, and has traveled the world writing about sociopolitics and globalization.Her work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Earth Island Journal, Salon.com, Alternet, and Tikkun, Orion, and Bitch magazines. Her first book, Loyal to the Sky is a memoir, moving from Marisas childhood home in apartheid South Africa to Israel, India, Nepal, Ecuador, Peru, and all over the Unit ...

HanlonWilde is a Coowner and Western Sales Manager for Equal Exchange, a workerowned cooperative dedicated to Fair Trade. Over the past decade he has led delegations of U.S. grocery store managers to live and work with coffee farmers in Peru. HanlonWilde provided a peer review of the publication Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America prior to its 2008 publication by MIT Press. Prior to joining Equal Exchange, HanlonWilde imported fresh fruits and vegetables from Latin America and earlier worked for the U.S. Department o ...

Not everyone looks at empty plastic buckets and thinks "brewery equipment," but that's just what Rob Hanson did 14 years ago. With the encouragement and tutelage of his officemate, a homebrewer himself, Hanson has been making his own beer at home ever since. Tongue in cheek, Hanson describes brewing as a "gateway hobby" that has led to his deeper interest in food, flavor, sourdough bread baking, gardening, and even woodworking as he has built equipment to serve, transport, and showcase his beer. When he is not brewing, Hanson is Advertising and Special Projects Manager at Green America, and ...

James Hanusa is Vice President of Development for Climate Prosperity Strategies and a Fellow of Global Urban Development. His recent activism work has focused on the Copenhagen Climate Change negotiations representing online/offline campaigns such as 350.org and Hopenhagen as well as working towards public/private/civic coalitions in specific issues areas such as tech transfer and finance. He founded Change SF in 2009, a San Franciscobased citizen sustainability initiative. His previous professional experience includes roles in business development and strategic alliances for information techn ...

James Hanusa is Green Economy Advisor to the Stakeholder Forum, organizer of the Rio+20 Earth Summit and a Fellow of Global Urban Development. His current work on New Initiatives for the Burning Man Project is focused on the Economic Development and Civic Participation in San Francisco. James’s background encompasses teaching social media at Ex’pression College and urban sustainability organizing for350.org, Global Campaign for Climate Action and others. He founded Change SF in 2009, a San Francisco-based citizen sustainability initiative. His previous professional experience includes r ...

Harget (moderator) has been raising funds, developing programs, and planning special events for environmental and health organizations for 15 years. In her role as Green America's Director of Development, Harget has helped secure foundation funding for Green America's Climate Action and Solar Catalyst Programs, and is currently promoting Green America's Efficiency First! project through her work with and participation in Climate Ride a 300mile, 5day bike ride that raises funds for three organizations working on climate change issues.

Now 30, Tad has been a full time innovator, trend setter, social entrepreneur and change maker since he was 18.His work has gained the endorsement of a veritable who's who of positive changemakers from over 50 countries.

Harmon is the Northwest Regional Lead for Industrial Areas Foundation.

Chuck is a native Californian born and raised in Los Angeles. He moved to DC in 1991 where he joined Team DC Velo, a local road cycling team. In addition to road cycling he also competes in multisport, including duathlons, triathlons and Xterra off-road triathlons. He has qualified for World Duathlon Championships and has competed with Team USA in 2008, 2009 and 2010. His background in business and clinical social work combined with his passion for cycling and love for his community has created the perfect opportunity to open a successful independent bicycle dealership in the Dupont/Logan area ...

Harnish is the Executive Director of the Midwest High Speed Rail Association, a membershipbased nonprofit organization advocating for fast, frequent and dependable trains linking the entire Midwest.Harnish graduated from Elmhurst College in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in transportation management. After leaving Elmhurst, Harnish was a logistics manager at American President Lines and JB Hunt and managed industrial real estate on Chicago's west side.Harnish helped found the Midwest High Speed Rail Association in 1991. He became the first paid executive director of the Association in Feb ...

A. Breeze Harper is a Ph.D. candidate at University of California, Davis, in the department of geography. She analyzes how race, racialization, and racism manifest within the vegan/vegetarian movement in the USA. She is the creator of the Sistah Vegan Project and new book Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health and Society (Lantern Books, March 2010).

Joan is the coordinator for Fair Trade LA – an organization dedicated to the promotion of fair trade principles and to the growth of the fair trade movement in Los Angeles. Their objectives are to: 1) educate the Los Angeles consumer about Fair Trade as an aspect of social justice; 2) to bring more fair trade products to the LA area, making Fair Trade as mainstream as possible; and to 3) engage members of the LA community with others who have a similar commitment. Special focus of FTLA now is to help cities become Fair Trade Towns. Joan recently retired from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles wh ...

Hill Harper is an award winning actor, bestselling author and philanthropist. Hill is the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Letters to a Young Brother, Letters to a Young Sister, and The Conversation. Letters to a Young Brother was named “Best Book for Young Adults” by the American Library Association in 2007. Hill currently stars on the hit television drama CSI:NY as Dr. Sheldon Hawkes. CSI is the most successful television franchise in history. To date, his collective writing and acting work has been recognized with six NAACP Image Awards: Outstanding Literary Work: Debut Autho ...

Lois Harr is born and bred in the Bronx and has been a Campus Minister for fourteen years, serving as the Director of Campus Ministry and Social Action at Manhattan College for the past ten years. With advanced degrees in Religious Education, Lois also teaches a service learning course in the Religious Studies Department at Manhattan. Lois serves on the Peace and JusticeAdvisory Committee of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities. Since 2007 she has been a CRS Fair Trade Ambassador working to raise awareness and commitment to Fair Trade both personally and professionally. L ...

David C. Harrington is the Maryland state senator from the 47th District in Prince George's County. Senator Harrington serves on the Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee, is a member of the Maryland State Black Caucus, cochair of the Green Caucus and has served as chair of the Task Force on Physical Education. Prior to arriving to the Senate, Senator Harrington, for six years, was a member of the Prince George's County Council. During his county tenure, he served as chair of the Council. Senator Harrington began his public service path in 1995 as the first AfricanAmerican t ...

Ron Harris-White is Executive Sponsor and co-lead of the Seattle Parks Urban Food Systems Committee. Seattle Parks and Recreation, through its Healthy Parks Healthy You Initiative, has taken a leadership role in ensuring children and families have nutritious food choices that promote health, reduce the incidence of obesity and certain diseases and promote wellness. Parks Urban Food Systems Committee is a working group supporting Parks & Recreation’s Strategic Action Plan, Healthy Parks, Healthy You and Race & Social Justice Initiatives. The committee is dedicated to promoting the more than 1 ...

Lyle Harrison was born and raised in Evanston. Mr. Harrison graduated as an ETHS “Wildkit” earning the James M. Hartrey engineering scholarship, showing at an early age a penchant for engineering and science. After attending; Washington, Chute, and Evanston Township High School, Mr. Harrison went on to earn 5 college degrees in 18 years. This included earning an Industrial Manufacturing Engineering degree from the #1 automotive engineering university in the United States, Kettering University. All degrees were earned while working full or part time jobs during school. After working as an R ...

Josh Hart was born in 1976 in Stuttgart, Germany the socalled cradle of the automobile where Porsches and Mercedes are manufactured. Obviously, he's not too fond of these estranged members of his extended family. The son of a ballerina and a former oil company executive, he grew up in the suburbs south of San Francisco, studying social psychology as an undergraduate at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he started cycling to his classes. Shocked by the horrific impact of heavy car dependence on quality of life in the seaside town, he gave up his Volkswagen for good and began to ...

At 41, Hartley has spent less than half of his lifecaring muchabout food. There were a lot or pursuits between here and there. Hartley grew up in the Pacific Northwestbackpacking and traveling around, at college for a physics degree, working fishing boats in Alaska and construction in Seattle.Where'd the kitchen part come in? Professional cooking was made for folks with lots of energy and short attention spans. Hartley helps run Tom Douglass' widely acclaimed group of restaurants in Seattle, as chef of the Palace Kitchen and now as head of operations. Turns out all time spent roasting ...

Albert Hartman has worked in energy industries for over thirty years. He's an innovator in generators, motors, actuators, and battery systems for wide ranging applications in consumer electronics, computer hard disk drives, military, and medical devices. He holds ten patents, a BSME from Cornell, and has done numerous journal articles and industry presentations. Most recently, he founded High Tide in Santa Clara, which is devoted to providing practical, high wattage power solutions for consumers and all their mobile devices.

Hartmann, who started in radio in 1968, is also is an internationally known speaker on culture and communications, an author, and an innovator in the fields of psychiatry, ecology, and economics. The cofounder (with his wife, Louise) of The New England Salem Children's Village (1978) and The Hunter School (1997), he has led national innovations in the areas of residential treatment for abused children and private/public education for learningdisabled children.Hartmann is the fourtime Project Censored Awardwinning, New York Times bestselling author of nineteen books currently in print in over a ...

Owner of Harvey Coachworks, cofounder and board member of the Potomac Electric Vehicle Association Harvey has built off the success of his first electric vehicle conversion in 1992. His company, located in Knoxville, MD, now focuses not only on EV conversions, but also plugin hybrid conversions, and 3 wheel personal electric vehicle manufacturing sales and service.

Harvey is COO of Burgerville, a company whose goals include conducting food and business operations in a loving, sustainable manner.

Jason Harvey is the founder and executive director of Oakland Food Connection. His unique breadth of work is a culmination of over 15 years of experience working with local nonprofits, the food industry and the military industrial complex. Through working for the San Francisco Bay Girl Scout Council, the United States Air Force, the Environmental Justice Institute and the San Francisco Bay French Bread Company, Jason has learned a number of innovative approaches to creating a socially and equitable food system in his native stomping grounds of East Oakland.Jason's vision for a just food system ...

Garrett has 31 years in sales and marketing and 16 years in executive management experience. He founded Eagle Shield in 2002 to be the premier provider of energy-saving products for the home and business. Garrett has extensive experience building large organizations with rapid market penetration and high customer satisfaction. Prior to Eagle Shield Inc. Garrett was Vice President of Sales for 24 Hour Fitness, a billion dollar company with locations in the United States, Europe and Asia. Garrett is a graduate of Harvard Business School Owner/President Management Program with a degree in admini ...

Hashisaki, founder of Springwood Associates, Inc., has worked in natural resource assessment and ecological restoration for nearly thirty years. Since 2000, Hashisaki has provided community based strategic planning, and process design and facilitation services primarily for tribal clients. Hashisaki helped establish the NW Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration, was appointed to the Skagit Environmental Endowment Commission, has served on the Board of the People for Puget Sound, and has been a member of the UW Water Center Advisory Board since 1993.

Andrew Hasse is director of the forthcoming film Edible City.

Terri Hathaway is the Africa Program Director at International Rivers which provides advocacy and analytical support to African communities and NGOs working to protect themselves from the destructive impacts of large dams. Her work focuses on the proposed Grand Inga project in the Democratic Republic of Congo and plans for an extensive hydrobased grid expansion across subSaharan Africa. She is author of Electrifying Africa: Turning a Continental Challenge into a People's Opportunity(forthcoming under the Municipal Services Project) and coauthor of The Great HydroRush: The privatisation of Afri ...

Hauter has worked extensively on energy, food, water and environmental issues at the national, state and local levels.

Dr. Rasheeda Hawk, a native of South Los Angeles, acquired a doctorate degree in Biophysics and Physiology from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Her current research at the Veterbi School of Engineering involves environmental toxins and their subsequent epigenetic effects leading to diseases such as ovarian cancer and PTSD. Rasheeda has studied how environmental factors can have an adverse affect in the human body leading to disease that is inheritable for many generations. Because of these findings, she has been involved with many sustainability projects ...

Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author. Starting at age 20, he dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. His practice has included starting and running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce on living systems, and consulting with governments and corporations on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy. He has appeared on numerous media including the Today Show, Larry King, Talk of the Nation, Charlie Rose, and has been profiled or featured in hundreds ...

George S. Hawkins, Esq. is the director of the District Department of the Environment, an $80 million agency with 300 employees. DDOE performs city, county and state environmental functions for the nation's capital.

HawkQuest is a Colorado nonprofit, taxexempt 501(c)3charitable organization. HawkQuest's approach to educationin classrooms and lecture halls is participatory, allowingthe audience to experienceHawkQuest's eagles, owls, falcons and hawksat close range.HawkQuest's goal is to make education both meaningful and fun,while creating an atmosphere which fosters respect for ourland and the stewardship of all living things. Our messageconcerning the importance of biodiversity, of the finalityof extinction, and of man's need to nurture his world isinterwoven with discussions of the raptors' place in our ...

Carrie Hawthorne is the Executive Director of Partners for Just Trade. Carrie spent three years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guatemala assisting Guatemalan weavers in product design and business development. She returned to the U.S. to work for the Fair Trade Federation and Fair Trade Resource Network, planning the first national Fair Trade conference in 2005. She then worked as Marketing Coordinator at Green America before becoming PJT’s first employee in 2007. Carrie serves as a board member of the Fair Trade Federation.

John Hayden and his company, JAMTOWN™, celebrate a worldwide love for music. Since 1995 JAMTOWN has imported instruments through fair trade relationships with low-income artisans and co-operatives around the world. JAMTOWN products rely on indigenous design & original ideas to generate awareness about fair trade and the musician within each of us. John is a pioneer in the field of accessible music technology and will ask for your participation in a demonstration today! He facilitates school, business and community rhythm events featuring hands-on participation. He coordinates the Folklife Fe ...

After over fifty years of activism, politics and writing, Tom Hayden is still a leading voice for ending the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, for erasing sweatshops, saving the environment, and reforming politics through a more participatory democracy. He currently writes forThe Nation, organizes, travels, and speaks constantly against the current wars as founder and Director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in Culver City, CA. He also recently drafted and lobbied successfully for Los Angeles and San Francisco ordinances to end all taxpayer subsidies for sweatshops. “Tom H ...

Since 2002, Christopher Hayes has been reporting and writing for a wide variety of independent publications. He regularly covers issues related to politics, labor, criminal justice, the environment and community development. His essays, reviews and feature articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including In These Times, The Nation, The American Prospect, The New Republic, The Washington Monthly and the Chicago Reader. He is currently a Senior Editor at In These Times, a Contributing Writer at the Nation and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at the Nation Institute.In 1968, when ...

Randy Hayes is the Executive Director at the International Forum on Globalization (IFG), a San Francisco based thinktank on the global economy started by Jerry Mander. Hayes is a proponent of COMMUNITY LED ECONOMIC LOCALIZATION as the antidote of CORPORATE LED ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION. He is a contributing author to Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible. Hayes will unleash a new web site on policies for the Better World in 2006 <http://www.ifg.org/> . Randy is also the founder of Rainforest Action Network and continues on that Board.

Douglas Hayes is from Azalea Springs Farm LLC, which is the home of rare standard bred livestock, including:Buckeye chickens,Guinea hogs, Red Wattle hogs and Randall Lineback cattle (coming soon). The Farm also grows many rare heirloom vegetables, produce and herbs. All livestock, veggies, herbs and fruits are sustainably raised. All livestock is raised on pasture. The focus of the farm is to preserve genetic agricultural heritage; provide seasonal high quality food to the local community; and to pass on this agricultural know-how to others. If animals are raised with love and respect, proce ...

Healy is the mother of three spunky, clever, funny, loving, breastfed children. Healy is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and volunteer La Leche League Leader. La Leche League supports breastfeeding families through monthly meetings, phone help and home visits as well as offering educational opportunities for health care professionals. Supporting mothers who want to breastfeed their babies allows me to pass on the ancient wisdom of mothering through breastfeeding and make a small difference in our community one family at a time.

Charlie Heck is the Managing Editor of luri & wilma, Washington, DC's eco-chic, online magazine.A graduate of the Mayborn College of Journalism, she recently returned to her writing roots after a few years in the corporate public relations sector. Raised by the "hippy" mom, she learned to appreciate local, organic food, sustainably harvested materials and small businesses and found those hard to coexist in the corporate sector.With the formation of luri & wilma and the emerging, locally produced fashion and vintage sector in DC, she has finally found that local, eco-conscious mix she can stand ...

Trathen Heckman is the founding director of Daily Acts, serves on the board of Transition U.S., and is a backyard farmer. With an emphasis on reverence for life, Trathen inspires, educates and collaborates with communities, business and municipal leaders to harness the power of nature and inspired action to restore the vitality of our lives and communities. He lives in the Petaluma River Watershed where he grows food, medicine, and wonder while working to compost apathy and lack.Trathen Heckman is the founding director of Daily Acts, serves on the board of Transition U.S., and is a backyard fa ...

Leif Hedendal is a farm to table SFbased chef, cooking for many dining projects, including The Secret Cafe, The Secret Eating Society, Noise In my Kitchen, and Mission Street Food. He is currently running a dinner series called Dinner Discussion, bringing together, over dinner, important figures in the sustainable food movement and sociallyengaged contemporary art.

Mischa is the Co-Founder of TrimTab Media, a communications agency that works with sustainable brands to tell their stories more effectively with online video. He brings over a decade of experience producing and editing award-winning documentaries, commercials and web video to TrimTab Media. Mischa holds an MBA in Sustainable Enterprise from Dominican University’s GreenMBA program and consults with organizations on integrated marketing and content strategy. Mischa grew up exploring the woods of Mendocino, California and selling produce at his family’s farmers market booth. He walks his t ...

Joanne Hedou is a Fluvial Geomorphologist educated at the University of Oregon and Massachusetts. She has been an environmental activist and professional in Seattle since the 80s, working for King County as a Planner; as a water resources consultant for numerous civil engineering firms; as a university instructor; and, since 2001, as a fundraiser for local fish, farming and food groups. Her writing is about her experiences with water, natural systems, immigration and parenting in a world that is radically different from the one she grew up in. Joanne currently works with GroundUp at Yesler Ter ...

Mary Heim has been working for the past year with the Seattle Office of Emergency Preparation on organizing at the block and community level on community preparedness. As a GIS professional, she is developing community asset maps for this work. Three Seattle groups from Queen Anne/Magnolia, West Seattle, and Wallingford were awarded funds from the City Council to purchase the supplies to create communication hubs to assist in this planning. Mary is president of the Wallingford Community Council and head of the Community Preparedness Guild of Sustainable Wallingford.

Richard Heinberg is a senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and is the author of eight books on ecological issues, including Peak Oil. He is the author of eight books, including The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies (2003) and Powerdown: Options and Actions for a PostCarbon World, The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse (2006), and Peak Everything (2008).Heinberg advocates a planned descent down the depletion curves of oil and draws attention to the links between 9/11 and peak oil.Heinberg lives in Santa Rosa, Calif ...

Eric Heineman is the Senior Sustainability Policy Advisor for Governor Pat Quinn. He currently oversees the Governor’s Sustainable School and Sustainable Universities Compact Program, legislation, procurement, and co-chairs the Illinois Green Governments Coordinating Council. Before working for the Governor, Eric was the first project manager for environmental sustainability at the University of Chicago. He is knowledgeable of sustainable practices, technology, and educationhaving been a middle school computer teacher at both private and public schools in Illinois. In addition he has tau ...

As President of Sustainable Ballard, Heins is proud to join her neighbors in taking action to live more sustainably both individually and collectively. Heins also serves as regional director for the Seattle Green Festival.

Christy Hemenway discovered her passion for beekeeping in 2007, after moving to rural Maine. This move came after spending several misspent decades in the real estate and information technology industries in the densely packed metropolis of Hampton Roads, Virginia.After attending conventional bee school, she had some unanswered questions such as, What did bees do before we gave them wax foundation? When no one at bee school offered up a solid answer to that one question in particular, she started searching further afield and discovered the benefits of something called top bar hives. Soon after ...

Maya Henderson has written about Chicago’s conscious living scene for the past five years. A certified yoga instructor and vegan, she currently covers fitness, nutrition, wellness and holistic beauty in the city for Vital Juice Chicago. She has a passion for making green and healthy living hip, accessible and fun for all.

Audrey Henderson is the founder and owner of Knowledge Empowerment, a socially conscious and sustainability-oriented independent writing, research and policy analysis consulting practice based in Chicagoland with a local, national and international client base. She holds an M.A. in Sociology and a J.D., both from Northwestern University. She created and manages Sustainable Urban Development, an online community devoted to promoting sustainability in the built environment, with more than 1500 members on the business networking website LinkedIn. Audrey Henderson is also a former guest blogger fo ...

Hendricks' love for wildlife began when I was a child by taking in wounded nativeanimals andlater in life protecting eagle foraging fir trees along our shoreline. While our aquatic native species are not seen as often, Hendricks' work has included their protection as they struggle for survival in Puget Sound. Currently Hendricks is the Chair of the Sierra ClubShorelines and Aquaculture Subcommittee.

Jamie Henn is the Communications and East Asia Director for the international climate campaign 350.org. In 2009, Jamie coordinated media for over 5,200 simultaneous events in more than 180 countries, landing 350.org on front pages and newscasts around the world and making the campaign the day's top story on Google News (while coordinating nearly 500 events across East Asia, including over 300 rallies across China and Cambodia's first climate event at Angkor Wat). At the Copenhagen climate talks, Jamie provided media support for some of the world's most vulnerable countries, running communicati ...

Kirstin Henninger is founding director of Green Caf

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 ...

Tamara Henry lives in the heart of the tsunami zone of Venice Beach and has devoted her entire life to the journey of health & wellness, mind/body/spirit/earth and her mission is to combine spirituality with entertainment. Tamara has been walking her talk, living car free in autocentric Los Angeles since 2001. This year her eco TV show about public transportation, carpooling and green trivia "Metro Motion" received a nomination at the 64th Los Angeles Area Emmys. Tamara is best knows for her feel-good community news on Santa Monica City TV Channel 16. "Santa Monica Update" airs every day at 9 ...

Ben Hensler is General Counsel and Deputy Director of the Worker Rights Consortium, a nonprofit organization that combats sweatshop abuses in the global apparel industry with a focus on factories that produce college logo sweatshirts and t-shirts. He has been an advocate, campaigner, investigator and organizer for the rights of workers in the US and around the world for more than twenty years. He lives in the Mission.

Herbert is chief executive of Newground Social Investment, a Seattlebased money manager and shareholder activist. He is a past governing board member of ICCR (the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility), and cofounded and was first director of the Northwest Coalition for Responsible Investment.Herbert is active on the Host Committee for the Seattle Green Festival, and in the leadership of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), the Institute for Children's Environmental Health, the Whidbey Institute at Chinook and the Sierra Club's Corporate Accountability Committee. O ...

CEO + Founder Chief Investment Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, Series 65 Investment Adviser Representative. Paul invented HIP (Human Impact + Profit) in 2004 to connect forprofit investments that delivered high human impact with investors seeking the same. Since then, Paul and the HIP team have launched and currently manage the HIP 100 Index (SM) portfolio (a sustainable substitute for the S;P 100); advise and manage the wealth of individuals, highnetworth families, and foundations; and also consult to corporate clients, like WalMart and NIKE, on how to be more HIP. In addition, th ...

Chris Herman has been consulting on and designing/drawing plans for complete, green, solar homes for 23 years in the Pacific Northwest. He is certified by the National Council of Building Designers, as a professional building designer, and the American Lung Association, WA Chapter, as a Healthy House Consultant/Designer. He is a founding, active member of the Northwest EcoBuilding Guild, with 7 chapters in WA, OR and Idaho. He is also founding board member and past president of Solar Washington, the state chapter of the American Solar Energy Society, of which he is also a life member. Chris de ...

Nancy Hernandez is a long-time cultural worker incorporating art into the Bay Area movements for social justice. Through policy, protest and academia, she has committed to fight the criminalization of youth and the growing prison industry. Additionally, she helped build a student-run center to support matriculation of students of color and mobilized thousands to fight fee increases and budget cuts to education. Furthermore, Nancy worked in San Francisco’s Mission District for over 10 years to address the root causes of gang related violence and was able to use silkscreening, stenciling, clot ...

Herndon is a social architect who has been pioneering for the last 20 years at the nexus of social networks, conscious evolution, media, technology, and collaboration. It is at the convergence of these powerful vectors where new social systems and synergies are born, essentially enabling new forms of civic engagement and innovative fresh thinking. As a lifelong action researcher, taking cutting edge wisdomknowledge and putting it into

Called "one of America’s finest reporters" by Barbara Ehrenreich, Mark Hertsgaard is the author of six books that have been translated into sixteen languages, including Earth Odyssey: Around the World In Search of Our Environmental Future and On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency. He has covered climate change, politics and the media for leading media outlets around the world, including Vanity Fair, The Nation, Time, The New Yorker, NPR, L’espresso, Die Zeit and Le Monde Diplomatique. His next book, HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth, will be published in the U ...

Julieanna Hever, M.S., R.D., C.P.T., also known as The Plant-Based Dietitian, is a passionate advocate of the miracles associated with following a whole food, plant-based diet-the established effects of which provide positive healthful benefits. Julieanna is the host of “What Would Julieanna Do?” on Veria Living Network, author of the best-selling book, “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition”, and the nutrition columnist for VegNews Magazine. She is the co-author of the book, “The Complete Idiot's Guide to Gluten-Free Vegan Cooking”, which she wrote with Chef Beverl ...

Hiatt created Peraska to integrate sustainability into business and life. As an educator, speaker and activist, Hiatt studies the roots of sustainability and its practical application. He works with companies to create deeper understanding of how to plant and grow it into their businesses. Leveraging technology is just one of his many tools. Throughout his life, Hiatt has worked to bridge the gap between the technical and the social aspects of sustainability. Of his many passions, paramount (besides his worm box) is Education for Sustainability (EfS). At the Sustainable Education Collaborative ...

A geologist turned brewpub pioneer who had never run for political office, Hickenlooper was elected Mayor of Denver in 2003 and reelected in 2007. In April 2005, less than two years into his first term, Time Magazine named the political newcomer one of the top five bigcity mayors in America.Both Hickenlooper and Denver continue to gain national recognition for innovative approaches to sustainability, transit, arts and culture, ending homelessness, economic development, regionalism, and of course hosting the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Hickenlooper brings creative leadership and innov ...

Hadassah Hickman is Vice President of Financial Products for New Equity Business (NEB). Over the last 10 years, Hadassah has worked with startups, growth stage firms and nonprofits in business planning, forecasting and capital raising. Prior to joining NEB, she founded Sitar Capital Group. Hadassah has worked for the Women’s Self-Employment Project as both portfolio manager and loan officer. Her career began at Seaway National Bank. Hadassah is a passionate advocate for small business, and has facilitated youth entrepreneurship, financial literacy and business planning seminars and workshops ...

Jack D. Hidary built his career as an entrepreneur in the finance and technology sectors and is currently focused on clean energy technology and policy.In April 2009, the Hidary Group bought the majority interest from JP Morgan in Primary Insight

Jack D. Hidary built his career as an entrepreneur in the finance and technology sectors and is currently focused on clean energy technology and policy. Hidary co-founded and served as President and CEO of EarthWeb/Dice. He raised three private rounds of equity and completed a record breaking IPO. Under Hidary's leadership, EarthWeb/Dice earned the prestigious Business Week Info Tech 100 award as the third fastest growing IT Company. Dice.com is currently traded on the NYSE under ticker DHX. Committed to community and philanthropic causes, Hidary has received several industry and community a ...

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 ...

Andrea “Drea” Hightower is the Director of Cuba Open Reality Tours as well as the Director of the Middle East Reality Tours Program at Global Exchange in San Francisco.

Andrea Drea Hightower is part of the Cuba Program at Global Exchange. She has guest lectured on Globalization and Human Rights in Central America and specifically in El Salvador.

Dermot Hikisch, leads B Lab's efforts to expand the community of Certified B Corporations, establishing Benefit Corporations as a recognized corporate form, and the emergence of GIIRS, the Global Impact Investing Rating System. Hikisch is the former Head of Research for UK-based ENDS Carbon and Wind Power Intelligence. His work included producing intelligence reports, developing climate-risk indices for FTSE, and rating Europe’s largest brands on their carbon performance. He has been published in the fields of business and water insecurity, climate change, true cost accounting, and CSR in ...

Alternately described as Serial Entrepreneur, DoGooder and Designer, Graham Hill certainly enjoys variety although now finds this future happily confined to the social entrepreneurship arena. Hill and the TreeHugger.com team recently joined the Discovery Communications family of networks as part of its Planet Green multiplatform, global environmental initiative. Additionally, he owns a product business that sells a New York souvenir he designed a few years ago, which is available in 175 stores including MOMA. Graham has a Bachelor of Architecture with distinction from Carleton University in O ...

Steven Hill is the director of the Political Reform Program at the New America Foundation.

Hill is a founding partner and current Sr. Director of Creatives4Community, a Seattlebased green education and workforce development academy focusing on establishing replicable, accessible, and racially/socially/economically equitable training models that provide lowincome, marginalized, and immigrant populations the opportunities to become selfsufficient and fully sustainable.We (people of color historically marginalized) are under a serious threat of being left out the green wave (urban food systems, green public health, green design, etc.) again. Green energy jobs are not panning out for us ...

Edward Hill is a progressive planning and design professional with a focus on race, social, and economic justice. Community education and capacity building is a foundational theme in Hill’s work and is reflected in the types of program and projects that include curriculum building, lesson plans, program scheduling, and hands-on experiential teaching as critical elements in much of his work. His background includes over two decades in media, visual and multi-media arts working as a reporter, radio producer, graphic artist, and arts instructor for Coyote Central, Tacoma Art Museum, Prate Fine ...

Corey Hill is the Membership and Outreach Officer at Global Exchange, where he works with the public to further Global Exchange’s mission and spread the organization’s Fair Trade message.

Jacqueline attended Iowa State University and majored in Microbiology. Duringher 15 years as a practicing veterinary technician, she studied many of theholistic/alternative modalities with an emphasis in nutrition. She is a memberof The Weston A. Price Organization, The Organic Consumer Association,and The Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund. Hired in 2004 by one ofthe largest raw pet food manufacturers in the nation, Jacqueline served asthe Northeast Territory Manager until her promotion to Eastern RegionalManager in 2005. In 2007, she was also appointed as leader of the company’sVeterinary ...

For the last 30 years Debbie Hillman has lived in Evanston, Illinois, where until 2006 she was an organic gardener, designing, installing, and maintaining residential gardens, all the while educating my clients about why they should pay attention to weather and soil. Since 2000, since have been active in a grassroots organization, Network for Evanston's Future, working on a broad stewardship agenda energy, affordable housing, transportation, global warming.In 2005, out of a growing awareness that food and agriculture connect many issues, including personal health and enjoyment in life, Hill ...

Photographer Bethanie Hines has been capturing all the right moments at Life Is Living Festivals in New York, Chicago, and Oakland.

Taryn Hipwell is the founder and creator of EcoDivas TV. Taryn is a enthusiastic, ethical, empowering writer, producer and host committed to creating super fun unscripted content that makes a difference. The goal of EcoDivas TV is to create awareness and build communities that focus on Eco film, fashion, cosmetics and food by sharing information from different cities around the world. EcoDivas is all about highlighting the silly, sassy, sexy, smart and sustainable sides of being green. Taryn studied Fashion Design and Art Therapy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and screenwritin ...

Josh has been working for Greenmaker Supply in Chicago since Februaryof 2007. He helps to run the Coatings, Sealants, and Adhesivesdepartment.

Karen Hobert is a certified Master Food Preserver for Los Angeles County, a certified Health Counselor in Integrative Nutrition, as well as a renowned Information Technology professional. Karen volunteers at SEE-LA's Farmer's Kitchen assisting chef Ernest Miller in creating many of the preserved foods the cafe sells to support its various programs. Karen has demonstrated food preservation techniques at Eat Real, Good Food Festival, Los Angeles County Fair, and at Farmer's Markets.

Chinaka Hodge is a poet, playwright and screenwriter. Originally from Oakland, CA, Chinaka graduated from NYU in 2006, and is currently pursuing her M.F.A. in Writing for Film and TV at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. Chinaka was a member of the U.S. Artist Delegation to the World Social Forum in Narobi, Kenya. She was the Assistant Director of Suzan Lori Parks’ 365 Plays, 365 Days, at its San Francisco debut. Her first independently written play, Mirrors in Every Corner, commissioned by SF’s Intersection for the Arts, is a 2010 Rockefeller MAP Fund grantee. Her work has been featured in ...

Established in 1927 by the late Harold G. Meyer in Hammond, Indiana, the Meyer’s Heating and Air-Conditioning Company earned a region wide reputation for top quality service and installation of residential and commercial comfort systems. In 1985, powered by the entrepreneurship and energy of Rick M. Hollaway., a longtime employee turned owner, the renamed Hollaway-Meyer’s, Inc. brought Rick’s ingenuity and mechanical skills to focus on a growing concern: Energy efficiency and the environment. Joining the company at this pivotal moment as vice president, Patrick G. Hoernig brought his e ...

Kathleen Hogan is a lifelong Chicagoan with history and ties to Chicago politics, community organizing and business. As coowner and operator, with partner Michael James, of the thirty yearold Heartland Cafe, Katy practically taught us to eat brown rice! Katy taught Urban Studies for over 20 years and is a member of the Loyola Park Advisory Council, coordinating projects including the annual Artists of the Wall festival and raising awareness of the Dunes Restoration project. Currently Katy works as Community Liaison through the Rogers Park Community Council and is enrolled in the Master Gardene ...