Gavin Raders is a co-founder of Planting Justice. He is passionate about social justice through a deep connection to land, place and community. He has designed and installed scores of urban permaculture designs, and works to make permaculture accessible, affordable and empowering in low income communities. He received a BA in Cultural Anthropology at UC Berkeley, and currently serves as the Executive Director of Planting Justice.
What I do at Holstee: Mad scientist responsible for letting the world know about Holstee. Favorite quote: "Whatever you do, do it for peace" - John Lennon Recommended Book: A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Favorite Holstee Design: The BLACK Wallet Culinary Specialty: Hummus Find me on: michael.radparvar.com Just tweeted by @michaelrad :
Ranganathan is the Director of Programs at Transportation Choices Coalition, a statewide non-profit focused on bringing residents more opportunities to take transit, walk or bike. A self described transportation geek, Ranganathan joined the Transportation Choices team in 2007, working on education and outreach efforts throughout Washington State helping residents chose transportation alternatives that work for them. Before TCC, Ranganathan spent time in the other Washington working on federal transportation policy as a transportation policy analyst at the Washington DC-based Environmental and ...
Ahmed Rahim is the co-founder, CEO and alchemist behind Numi Organic Tea, the largest organic, fair trade premium tea company in North America. Before launching NUMI in 1999 in Oakland, California with his sister, Reem, Ahmed studied Theater & Psychology in NYC, and then spent a decade living, working and traveling throughout Europe as a professional film maker and photographer. Ahmed focused on abstract art through the visual mystery of light and nature, and made documentaries about impoverished areas and war zones across the world. At NUMI, Ahmed travels to remote regions of the world seek ...
As chief marketing officer at Numi, Reem Rahim heads all marketing efforts including all package design. Reem is fluent in all aspects of tea, including its history and cultivation as well as product development of Numis full leaf quality tea and organic and fair trade sourcing. After earning her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Reem switched gears and went on to pursue a Diploma dArte in Drawing and Painting from Lorenzo di Medici Art Institute in Florence, Italy and then a Masters in Fine Arts from John F. Kennedy University in the department of Arts ; Con ...
Shadi Rahimi are the cofounder of Seventh Native American Generation (SNAG) Magazine. Shadi Rahimi can be seen on CurrenTV and is the communications director of the W. Haywood Burns Institute (BI) and the Community Justice Network for Youth (CJNY) and freelances for the Native American newspaper Indian Country Today.
Sanjay Rajan, Chief Co(r)evolution Officer, SLOWCOLOR, grew up in Hyderabad, India. He has lived and worked in multiple countries on multiple continents and first arrived in the US in 1992. Rajan completed an MS Computer Systems Engineering from Northeastern University in 1995. And holds dual executive MBA global degrees from Columbia and London Business Schools, 2011. Since 1997 Boulder, Colorado has been his home. Rajan has always had a focus on community: He served as Art Commissioner for City of Boulder, ensuring judicious allocation of public funds for community-based art initiatives. An ...
Jessica Raker has over 8 years of clean energy project experience. She currently works on Northwest SEED’s Solarize program and leads the Tribal Energy Program. Jessica also provides technical expertise on other Northwest SEED clean energy projects, such as collecting and analyzing data from small wind turbines, as well as the resource evaluation of potential wind and solar energy sites. Since joining Northwest SEED she has completed certificate programs in GIS technology and Energy Management. She holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a MSME from the University of Washington.
David Ralston has been a redevelopment project manager for the City of Oakland's Community and Economic Development Agency for the last eightyears piloting open space, neighborhood greenway infrastructure and infill development projects in East Oakland that combine community engagement and strategic sustainable planning with local green job opportunities. With a background in city planning and architecture, Ralston also teaches as an adjunct at the Merritt College EnvironmentalManagement and Technology Department in Oakland.David Ralston has been a redevelopment project manager for the City of ...
Ramer is a leading social entrepreneur, communications designer and selfdescribed realistic optimist who has long recognized
Ramos is Vice President, CRA Officer, and Compliance Officer at ShoreBank. He also serves on the Advisory Compliance Committee of the Illinois Bankers Association.
Eco Extraordinaress, and LEED AP, Alegre Ramos has been practicing environmental design for seven years and has lived the green movement personally her whole life, giving up soda at 11, nail polish at 18 and hair chemicals at 20. She started Green and Greener, an eco-living general store and design center located in Valley Village in 2006 as a one-stop shop and community resource where people could learn everything about how to live, work and build greener. Before starting Green and Greener she launched numerous new products in the home/shelter industry and managed the marketing of numerous na ...
Sandy Ramsey is Executive Director of Cornerstone Community Outreach. She has been working with the homeless since 1979. Currently she oversees two shelter programs totaling 300 people which includes families with children, single fathers with children, and intergenerational families.
As writer/producer/founder, Pearl has produced performing arts programs throughout the country for almost 20 years and her passions lie in social justice, race reconciliation/healing, being a catalyst for progressive change that sees ALL people as deserving of an equitable pursuit of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and professional community theatre performance that is used as a vehicle for conscious community change; each community being the world, one performance at a time. Her Troubadour Ensemble launches an innovative radio/web/musical theatrical series with a focus in ol' time ...
Apoorva Rangan is speaking as a representative of EngageHer.org. She is a 15 year old high school sophomore who attends The College Preparatory School in Oakland, CA. She also cofounded Project Jatropha, an international nonprofit collaboration which fights against climate change and poverty in rural India. Apoorva has won several international and national environmental awards. She heads the finance department of Project Jatropha. She recently joined EngageHer.org and is a leader in the youth group.
Ranganathan is the Director of Programs at Transportation Choices Coalition, a statewide non profit focused on bringing residents more opportunities to take transit, walk or bike. A selfdescribed transportation geek, Ranganathan joined the Transportation Choices team in 2007 working on education and outreach efforts throughout Washington State helping residents chose transportation alternatives that work for them. Before TCC, Ranganathan spent time in the other Washington working on federal transportation policy as a transportation policy analyst at the Washington DCbased Environmental and Ene ...
With a chemical and environmental engineering background, Rao is the executive director of Literacy for Environmental Justice in Bayview Hunter's Point and serves on the advisory board of the Urban Alliance for Sustainability.
Nick Rapattoni is a composer, producer, and performer from Los Angeles currently scoring original music for TV and film. With 30 years of experience, he has a wide range of talents that provides a polished and soulful edge to everything he touches. From high energy, to moody, to inspirational and thought provoking, Nick can create any musical texture needed.
James is the current Coordinator of Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition / Technical Advisory Group. He has had a long background with environmental work on the Duwamish River. James is a current member of the Duwamish Tribe and has served on the tribal council for twenty-five years. He is a founding member of DRCC as well as founding member and past president of The Green Duwamish Watershed Alliance and a founding member of WRIA #9 that oversees all aspects of Listing of Coho Salmon as threatened in the Green Duwamish Watershed and putting together the WRIA #9 habitat plan. He has been working on ...
Sofia Ratcovich ha vivido en West Hollywood desde que llego a los Estados Unidos hace 23 anos. Es madre de dos ninos Gabo 6 y Kadyn 4. Ella trabaja para The Lee Andrews Group como consultora de sostenibilidad y se especialisa en extension a la communidad en various proyectos grandes de construccion en toda el area metropolitana de Los Angeles. Como voluntaria para la organizacion Sustainable Works, ha ensenado “Talleres de Vida Verde” para residentes de Santa Monica. Esta acreditada por el USGBC como asociado LEED, y por Build It Green como una profesional certificada de construcion verde ...
Dylan Ratigan is the host of MSNBC’s "The Dylan Ratigan Show," one of the highest-rated daytime shows on the network. This make-versus-take, analysis-driven daily broadcast fearlessly takes on the world of politics, money, and the unholy alliance between big business and government. The former global managing editor for corporate finance at Bloomberg News, Ratigan has developed and launched more than half a dozen broadcast and new media properties. They include CNBC’s Fast Money and Closing Bell, as well as DylanRatigan.com, which is home to his podcast, “Greedy Bastards Antidote.” R ...
Beth Rattner is the vice president of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, a nonprofit founded on the work of William McDonough and Michael Braungart. Beth is an attorney, has worked for over a decade with Fortune 500 companies, is a permaculture practitioner, writer, and student of herbal medicine and homeopathy. She deeply believes, the problem is the solution, and is dedicated to creating a world that works for 10 billion or more. Prior to this position, Beth worked for years with McDonough and Braungart on the forthcoming sequel to Cradle to Cradle. She infused that same ...
Chef Rawsheed is one of the country’s finest raw/living foods culinary artists and is expanding his experience as a gourmet raw food chef into the marketing of his prepared raw foods into health food and grocery chains and restaurants throughout California. Combining his 17 years of experience as a raw foods alchemist with his knowledge of health and nutrition, Rawsheed has now made available products for the larger community of individuals interested in taking the next step in their personal health and nutrition. Rawsheed launched his packaged food-line, this past Spring in local Southern ...
Oakes, now a resident expert and host on Treehugger.com and Discovery Networks Planet Green channel, is an entomologist and environmental scientist by training.
Shiva Rea is a yogini firekeeper, sacred activist, global adventurer and leading innovator in the evolution of Prana Flow Yoga, transformational Vinyasa flow integrating the Tantric bhakti roots of yoga, Krishnamacharya's teachings and a universal, quantum approach to the body. Shiva is known for bringing the roots of yoga alive for modern practitioners in creative, dynamic and life-transforming ways and for offering the synthesis form of prana flow out in the world. Shiva is the creator of Prana Flow Yoga, Yogadventure Retreats, Yoga Trance Dance for Life, Moving Activism for 1,008,000 Trees, ...
Donna Read has been directing films about women and the earth for thirty years. Her work with Starhawk includes, The Women and Spirituality series, and Signs out of Time, the story of archaeologist, Marija Gimbutas. She enjoys helping others tell their stories and realize their vision in this new digital era.
Rose Thornton is the Producer and Creator of Mission: Sustainable and coowner of ReGeneration Productions. Through this project, Thornton marries her experience in art and science and fulfills her dream to communicate the ideals and practice of urban sustainability. Jon Sumple, director of Mission: Sustainable and coowner of ReGeneration Productions has written, directed and edited numerous corporate videos and several independent video projects during his 25+ years in the marketing industry. Cast members present will include cohosts Megan Hilfer of Parsons Public Relations and Nathan Friend o ...
Peter Realmuto started his company in 1997 as furniture repair service for several Merchandise Mart showrooms, highend furniture stores and interior design firms. He is the second generation in his family in this type of work.The company began expanding offerings to include major repair work and antique restoration. Much of this time was spent working out of a shop in my garage. In 2000 things grew to the point that real shop space was needed.In 2001 the company incorporated as Realmuto Furniture Works, Inc. with the offering of commissioned furniture making services in addition to the repair ...
Rebecca Martin has been telling tales all over California and in even a bit in Scotland for over a decade. She started out a long time ago in a bookstore when she was the only staff member who didn't seem to mind wearing the big-headed costumes sent from the publishers for Saturday storytime. Soon enough she took over storyhour and was performing and learning the traditional art of storytelling. Listeners started inviting her to schools and parties.After graduating with honors from the University of California at Santa Barbara with two degrees - one in literature and one in acting, she became ...
Recycled runway is a student run club at The New School. We take pre-existing items bound for landfill and refashion them into clothing. By doing this, the usefulness of the discarded item is extended, and the question is raised: What is trash? Our goal is to make people question their relationship with waste, and the things they interact with everyday, like clothing.
Helen Reddout resides in the Yakima Valley of Washington state where she and her family have operated commercial cherry orchards for more than 57 years. Helen is President of CARE (Community Association for Restoration of the Environment) and director of the Dairy Education Alliance that organized in response to the invasion of polluting dairy factories near her farm. CARE won a landmark federal court case, which forced mega dairy polluters to obey the Clean Water Act. Another precedent-setting Federal court case was won in 2012 regarding dairy pollution. Helen conducts air and water testing ...
Desireé Reese handles commercial marketing for Clean Currents (www.cleancurrents.com), a green energy company that serves residents and businesses in the Mid-Atlantic. Clean Currents is the first and only energy company in Maryland to be certified B Corp, Gold certified by Green America and classified as a Benefit LLC. Formerly, Desiree was the Deputy Director of Green America’s Green Business Network. She led GBN partnerships, social media and marketing, membership development, and the national green business education program. In her previous role in GBN, Desiree worked to understand t ...
Rob Reeves has enjoyed recruiting for a long time. He founded Redfish Technology in 1996, and has taken it from apredominantly West Coast Technical recruiter to a nationwide, full service firm specializing in High Tech and Clean Tech sectors. Rob entered the recruiting industry in 1995 with EmersoftCorporation after graduating with a dual major in Finance and Japanese from the University of Washington. He successfully managed and trained recruiters until eventually founding RedfishTechnology in 1997. His leadership brought Redfish from apredominantly West Coast Technical Recruiting focus to a ...
Richard Register, Founder and President of Ecocity Builders, is one of the world's great theorists and authors in ecological city design and planning. He is also a practitioner with four decades of experience activating local projects, pushing establishment buttons and working with environmentalists and developers to get a better city built and running. Among his many firsts, he convened the first of the Ecocity International Conference Series in Berkeley, California. He was founding president of Urban Ecology (1975) and founder and current president of Ecocity Builders (1992), both nonprofit ...
Brian Reich is senior vice president - global editor for Edelman, where he provides editorial vision and strategy for the company. Heis the author ofShift & Reset: Strategies for Addressing Serious Issues in a Connected Society (Wiley, 2011) and co-author ofMedia Rules!: Mastering Today’s Technology to Connect with and Keep Your Audience (Wiley, 2007). Brian blogs and hosts a podcast discussion about the impact of media and technology on society and teaches consumer behavior and marketing strategy in the graduate school of communications at Columbia University. Brian began his career in ...
Reid grew up on small organic farms in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A born explorer and outdoorsman, he has travelled, lived, and worked around the globe. After careful planning over several years, Dave recently quit a successful career as an international project engineer for Philips Healthcare's ultrasound products in order to work fulltime on developing the sail transport concept in the Puget Sound. He is now the proprietor of Sail Transport Company, a local CSA that delivers organic produce via sailboats. Reid is also coOrganizer of Seattle Peak Oil Awareness (SPOA), an active member of Sustai ...
Eleanor Reily is dedicated to supporting an environmentally-conscious, “green” system of design, manufacture, and merchandising, utilizing locally-produced, fairly traded materials. All soaps are vegetable-based, using a variety of oils, butters and plant extracts. A popular writer and accomplished public speaker on all things Green, she has a strong and loyal following of others who advocate a more balanced, conscious and earth-friendly lifestyle. Her “area of expertise” for the panel will be education on living chemical-free as it relates to personal care products, with a focus on th ...
Patrick Reinsborough is a strategist, campaigner and creative provocateur with over 20 years of experience in movements for ecology, peace and social justice. In 2002 he co-founded smartMeme (www.smartmeme.org) a strategy and training center to explore the intersection of social change, the ecological crisis and strategies to shift cultural narratives. With his colleagues at smartMeme, Patrick has trained over 4,000 organizers and partnered with over 200 high impact organizations to frame issues, strengthen alliances and win campaigns. He is the co-author of Re:Imagining Change: How to Use Sto ...
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Reiswig has served as president of the Sustainable West Seattle since its inception. Sustainable West Seattle educates and advocates for urban sustainability in our local community.
Rendes is the Northwest Student Organizer for the Responsible Endowments Coalition. Rendes works with students providing them with tools and knowledge needed to ensure that universityendowments are investing socially and environmentally responsibly, for investment transparency, and to leverage social and environmental change.
Retrofit Republic is a styling firm and vintage retailer with a social impact. We specialize in vintage and recycled clothing and offer styling to individuals, changemakers, and brands. Our vision is to change the believe that fashion and eco-sustainability are mutually exclusive. As a values-driven business, Retrofit Republic is committed to impeccable style, sustainability efforts, and initiatives that benefit low-income populations, communities of color, and our LGBTQ family.
A student of the writers Charles Gaines and Kurt Vonnegut, Talen has staged experimental plays, published essays and poems in Philadelphia, New York and California. At Life On the Water, a theater in San Francisco’s Fort Mason Theater, Talen presented artists such as Spalding Gray, Mabou Mines, David Cale, B. D. Wong, Holly Hughes, William Yellow Robe, the Red Eye Collective, Reno, John Trudeau, and Danny Glover reciting the works of Langston Hughes. This experience in producing led him to the confessional monologue. After studying with the cleric Reverend Sidney Lanier, Talen invented “a ...
Stephanie Reyes is Policy Director at Greenbelt Alliance, the San Francisco Bay Area's advocate for open spaces and vibrant places. She works on regional and statewide smart growth, affordable housing, and open space protection policy with an emphasis on the connection between land use and climate change. Ms. Reyes previously held positions in communications, public education, and advocacy at EHC LifeBuilders, an affordable housing and homeless services nonprofit.
Councilmember Ed P. Reyes has served on the Los Angeles City Council since April 2001. A native of Northeast Los Angeles, Councilmember Reyes represents many of the neighborhoods he grew up in including Lincoln Heights and Cypress Park. As chair of the Los Angeles River Ad Hoc Committee, Reyes has brought a renewed focus to the once-neglected L.A. River. He spearheaded the Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan, approved in May 2007, which paved way for the creation of more parks, pedestrian and bike paths, and wetlands along the River. Reyes was instrumental in the creation of two major ...
Elise Reynard, a dancer, actress and singer in the band “, loves to perform, teach children, and work with Wingspan Arts to ensure she brings creativity to her life and others, every day.
Rha Goddess is a cultural innovator and social entrepreneur who brings over two decades of transformational “crowd rockin’” in the name of social change. As a world renowned performing artist and activist, her work has been internationally featured in several compilations, forums and festivals. Rha’s work has been reviewed extensively and she has received rave industry reviews from Time Magazine, Ms. Magazine, The Source and The Miami Herald among others. In her 30+ year tenure as a creative organizer Rha has worked on issues of racial justice and equality, electoral politics, offend ...
Julia H. Rhee is the Co-Founder of Retrofit Republic. Before starting the styling firm with a social impact, the Washington native advocated for disenfranchised communities for the past decade in New York City, Oakland, CA, and Tacoma, WA with environmental and social justice organizations. Currently, Julia co-chairs NAPAWF Bay Area, the local chapter of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, the nation’s only multi-issue women’s organization advancing the rights and issues of Asian Pacific American women and girls. She proudly served as the Executive Producer for the Asian Pa ...
Detroit Environmental Justice organizer for the Sierra Club, Andersonis working to block the Marathon Oil Refinery in Detroit fromprocessing Canadian tar sand oil.
In 2004 James 'Jimmy' Hunter (now 16) was only nine years old whenhe started the band, One Eyed Rhyno, for a school talent show. Although the Classic Rock and Blues band has had different backing musicians, his big sister and drummer, Elaine (19), has always been beside him. James and Elaine were raised with the concern of care of the environment. Their first gigs included The Creek Week Celebration in Sacramento. After seeing pollution in their own community creeks and learning of the Exxon oil spill James was inspired to write ‘The Bird’ when he was nine. Fast forward 6 years late ...
Rhythm & Motion Dance Classes are taught by professional dancers. The classes taught at the Green Festival weekend will be co-taught by some of our amazing staff. We will be teaching our classic Fusion Rhythms class which fuses dance styles and eclectic music to create an invigorating, physically challenging and fun experience. Class begins with choreography to wake up the body, focusing on specific muscle groups. This thorough warm-up is followed by high energy choreography designed to increase stamina and strength. Class continues on the floor with abdominal strengthening as well as leg work ...
Jeffrey Richardson, President/CEO, Imani Energy, Inc., is a green entrepreneur, and activist/organizer. He leads Imani Energy, Inc a solar technology/energy business that manages residential and commercial solar power system installations and provides training and employment to residents of low-income and people of color communities. Imani is established in Los Angeles as a first step in replicating its business model nationally. Jeffrey directed Imani Energy’s development and implementation of a first of its kind solar sales training through a public/private partnership with the Los Angele ...
Kisha Michelle Richardson is an inner-city kid turned investment banker, turned entrepreneur and hacker. She quit her cushy corporate job and moved across the country from New York City to the Bay Area to fully devote time to sharpening her coding skills and “becoming her own technical co-founder” for her projects. In June 2012 she launched The Seed It Project to provide a way for talented BootStrappers to earn seed money to fund the "zero-to-traction" phase of projects without giving up equity or incurring debt. The platform, developed by her as way to learn Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, ...
Mary Rick is a talented young organizer, collaborator and strategist. She has spent the last decade building sustainable communitybased organizations and innovative partnerships.For the past four years she served as program and operations director for the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE). BALLE is North America's fastest growing network of socially responsible businesses, comprised of over 80 community networks representing over 21,000 independent business members across the U.S. and Canada.Mary directed the membership program at Global Exchange, an international human ri ...
Von Klan is President and CEO and Riddell is Vice President of Exhibitsand Strategic Initiatives at the Chicago Academy of Sciences PeggyNotebaert Nature Museum.
>Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Dr. Brent Ridge are are not your average couple.They are the stars of the reality television show The Fabulous Beekman Boys on Planet Green TV. Josh and Brent have transplanted themselves fromNew York City toBeekman Farm in upstateNew York, where they are raising 80 goats, two pigs, a dozen chickens and a narcissistic llama. These guys have urban professional backgrounds and they're now making goat milk soap. Technically, Josh isn't new to upstateNew York. He was born there, but then raised in ruralWisconsin. He is the New York Times bestselling author ofI Am ...
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Ridolfi is a professional civil/environmental engineer and entrepreneur with a passion for social and environmental justice.After obtaining an MBA in Sustainable Business from Bainbridge Graduate Institute,Ridolfi began a nonprofit sustainability organization in her community and a grassroots effort to startup a Farmers Market. Ridolfi also serves on the Mercer Island utility board and on the board of directors of the Washington Clean Tech Alliance.
Callie is a civil/environmental engineer and entrepreneur who has promoted restorative development and sustainability throughout the Cascadia region for over 20 years. She is a founding board member of the Washington Clean Technology Alliance and was the founding director of IslandVision. Her mission is to help Puget Sound area neighborhoods become more resilient through energy retrofits and green job opportunities. Callie holds an MBA from Bainbridge Graduate Institute and is managing director of ECOFAB. ECOFAB provides sensible efficiency measures for homeowners, including energy audits and ...
Riehle has been a technology professional since 1985. He was a heads-down cubicle programmer in the early days of his career; worked for IBM in Dallas as primary technical advocate and liaison for several of its strategic development partners; and at Loyola University Chicago, he managed the Networked Systems Integration Team and Unix Systems Team. He is the founder of Pangaea Organica, an Organic, Fair Trade, Cooperative coffee roasting company in Seattle.
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Registered Dietitian Mark Rifkin, of Preventive Nutrition Services, has been vegan since 1986, has a BA in Environmental Studies, and an MS in Health Education. Through his private practice in Baltimore, MD, Mark provides group and individual sessions to help vegetarians and vegans improve the quality of their diet. He also focuses on plant-based nutrition for various chronic diseases and conditions, including: diabetes, weight management, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, gout, women's health concerns, cancer and early stage kidney failure, as well as promoting sustainable food patterns beyo ...
Kelly Rigg is the Executive Director of the Global Campaign for Climate Action, a global alliance of 350 organizations cooperating under the banner of the tcktcktck campaign. She has been leading international campaigns for 30 years on climate, energy, oceans, Antarctica and other issues. She blogs regularly on Huffington Posthttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-rigg and tweets @kellyrigg
Devin Riles is Irrigation Water Manager for Denver Botanic Gardens.
Jessica Rimington serves as Executive Director of a nonprofit organization she founded called One World Youth Project. She is a global advocate for youth participation in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, educational reform, and the value of cultural exchange in achieving social ; environmental justice.
Ringo came to the Apollo Alliance in 2005 as a dedicated champion of environmental justice and vocal advocate of clean energy. He has firsthand experience of the challenges we face after working for more than 20 years in Louisianas petrochemical industry.More than half of that time was spent as an active union member working with his fellow members to secure a safe work environment and quality jobs. Louisianas petrochemical industry focuses on the production of gasoline, rocket fuel, and plastics many of which contain cancer causing chemicals. As he began observing the negative impacts of the ...
Bill Ritter, Jr. was elected as Colorado's 41st governor in 2006the first Coloradoborn governor in more than 35 years. Gov. Ritter is leading Colorado by bringing people together to tackle some of our state's biggest challenges. He has accomplished the following: - Established Colorado as a national and international leader in renewable energy by building a New Energy Economy that is creating thousands of new jobs and establishing hundreds of new companies. - Enacted an aggressive businessdevelopment and jobcreation agenda that is focused on knowledgebased industries of the future, such ...
Alma Rivas, Angelina nativa del este de Los Ángeles, creció en una familia que valora profundamente servicio a la comunidad, ayudar a los demás y ser amable con la tierra. Desde joven, Alma ha estado involucrada con muchas organizaciones no gubernamentales. Suexperienciaamplia trabajando con familias y niños, así como su visión para los negocioscon más de 15 años en la industria con fines de lucro, la convierte en una increíble ventaja de Mujeres de la Tierra. En su tiempo libre, Alma es un cocinera apasionada, jardinera y amante de los animales. Alma también es un Docent con el I ...
"Hernan “E$” Rivera was born in Santiago, Chile, a trained with traditional Afro-Cuban drummer, now joined forces with his drum partner “Gato” at “Jazzercise” (the original birthplace for “JazzMoov”). Only to find himself playing to Funk, Jazz, Afro-Latin, Soul House from some of the country's best House DJ’s ever.
As Regional Vice President for Calvert, Rivers is responsible for client relationships and the marketing of Calvert's investments throughout the Pacific Northwest. Rivers started with the company in 2000 at Calvert's headquarters in Bethesda, MD and relocated to Seattle in 2007.
Rizzo is Global Exchange's Freedom from Oil Campus Organizer in California. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley in Geography and Conservation and Resource Studies. She was a lead organizer for the victorious UC Sweatfree Campaign, as spearheaded by United Students Against Sweatshops.Nina uses her campaign experience to work with students and other organizations participating in the Campus Climate Challenge to pass policies and programs that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve sustainable transportation in order to combat the climate crisis.
John Rizzo is a cofounder of the Phillip and Sala Burton Center for Human Rights and a trustee with City College of San Francisco. He is an environmental activist, former president of the Sierra Club San Francisco Bay chapter, and former commissioner with the San Francisco Golden Gate Park Concourse Authority. John is also an author and web publisher in the field of computer technology and enterprise systems. He has written a number of books about computers, has taught adult education and has written educational materials.John Rizzo is a cofounder of the Phillip and Sala Burton Center for Huma ...
Louis Rizzo is the Lead Program Manager of the National Grid Energy Efficiency Heating Programs. In his current roll, he is responsible for managing National Grid’s Energy Efficiency residential New York City and Long Island heating programs as well as NYC commercial programs. These programs provide rebate incentives for residential and commercial gas heating and oil to gas conversion customers that upgrade or replacing their heating units to high efficiency heating systems. Prior to managing the energy efficiency programs he held various rolls within the market development, business strate ...
Sandra Robbie is the writer/producer of the Emmy-winning documentary Mendez vs. Westminster: For All the Children which tells the story of the amazing 1947 OC school desegregation case seven years before Brown v. Board of Education. Sandra has screened her film across the country at venues including the Smithsonian Institute, Chapman University and Harvard Law School. A devoted “Mendez Maniac,” Sandra is now working at Chapman University to create the permanent home for the study and celebration of Mendez v. Westminster.
John Robbins is the author of nine bestsellers that have collectively sold more than 3 million copies and been translated into 26 languages. His books include The Food Revolution, the classic Diet For A New America, and most recently, No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Revolution. Currently, he is also one of the most popular bloggers on the Huffington Post. As an advocate for a compassionate and healthy way of life, John is the recipient of the Rachel Carson Award, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, the Peace Abbey’s Courage of Conscience Award, Green America ...
James Roberts has shaped his career around affecting positive change for people and the environment. He has worked for nearly ten years in the field of organic and fair trade apparel. Through his passion and dedication he is established as an important player in the global organic and fair trade movement. Roberts is currently the Director of Operations at Indigenous Designs Corporation, a leading premium organic apparel brand and producer of hand-crafted fair trade clothing. James oversees all aspects of production, inventory management and logistics within a cottage industry production model. ...
Vicki Robin is wellknown as the coauthor with Joe Dominguez of the international bestseller, Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence (Viking Penguin, 1992), available now in ten languages, now updated for the 21st century (Viking Penguin 2009). She currently teaches the Your Money or Your Life approach to money
Yvette Mari Robles graduated in 2004 from San Francisco State University with a B.A. in Psychology, emphasis in CrossCultural Psychology, and a minor in Speech Communications. She currently serves as the Director of BMAGIC, a non profit social, educational and juvenile justice collaborative comprised of 45 community based organizations in Bayview Hunters Point. Yvette is an abolitionist, womanist, grassroots fundraiser, community builder and social researcher. She assists in providing alternatives to incarceration through collaborative programming, advocating for public policy and restorative ...
Favianna Rodriguez is an artist-entrepreneur who has helped foster resurgence in political arts, both locally and internationally. Named by UTNE Magazine as a "leading visionary artist and changemaker,” Rodriguez is renown for her cultural media projects dealing with social issues such as war, immigration and globalization, as well as for her leadership in establishing innovative institutions that promote and engage new audiences in the arts. In 2001, Rodriguez co-founded the EastSide Arts Cultural Center in Oakland, California. In 2003, she helped established the Taller Tupac Amaru print ...
Eric Rodriguez, Executive Director of Latino Union of Chicago, is the son of undocumented Mexican migrants and began volunteering with the Latino Union in 2003. Since his early days with the organization, he has been organizing day laborers at street corners, facilitating worker leadership development, and building alliances through out the city alongside workers to garner the public support needed to open the Albany Park Workers’ Center in 2004. While serving as the Center coordinator, he facilitated the establishment of systems operation and Day Laborer Program education and leadership dev ...
Darian Rodriguez Heyman has a history of building businesses and creating community. After five years of service, Darian recently stepped down as executive director of Craigslist Foundation, an organization dedicated to educating, empowering, and connecting emerging nonprofit leaders. While there, he helped launch Nonprofit Boot Camp, a oneday conference that quickly grew into the largest nonprofit gathering in San Francisco Bay Area history, and he also helped launch the Environmental Nonprofit Network and the Next Generation Leadership Forum. Darian also served as a commissioner for the e ...
Gerod Rody is the Executive Director of OUT for Sustainability (O4S) and the Communications Coordinator for the Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI). O4S is a Seattle based nonprofit mobilizing the LGBTQ community to advance social and environmental sustainability. BGI is a sustainable business graduate school in the Seattle area. Gerod is also a graduate of BGI, earning his MBA in Sustainable Business in 2009. Gerod has worked in marketing and community engagement related roles including gProjects, Meyer Wells and Jackson Nyberg. He also developed Comfort Food, the first organic restaurant in ...
Tanya Rogers is part of Green Living Project’s Mobile Tour team, serving as an educator and ambassador for sustainability education. Tanya completed her B.S. in wildlife science in 2006 and her M.S. in conservation biology in 2009 from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Tanya worked with the Nature Conservation Foundation in India for her master’s research, focused on the impacts of fuel wood consumption on tiger habitat. Tanya’s most recent passions revolve around food choices, and local and organic farming. She grew her first garden in 2009 ...
Eyes open or closed, always traveling. Rogerson is graduating this June from the University of Washington with a degree in environmental studies. Rogerson is now qualified to save the world. Indeed, just how to do so on an individual and communal level has been examined as part of his senior project on yurts and carbon footprints. Friday, June 11th at the Om Culture Center marks the culmination of Rogerson's efforts in this area. A full screening of Yurtprints: Taking Big Steps toward a Smaller Footprint, as well as an actual yurt raising, presentations by yurt experts and a potluck will be o ...
Antonio Roman-Alcalá, having been irrationally dedicated to urban sustainability since he decided that there wasn’t enough “land” for all the dropouts to go “back to,” spends his time realizing his personal vision of sustainable hedonism. This includes teaching organic food-growing techniques to urban dwellers; organizing communities into more cohesive and politically active wholes; and bridging art and music with everyday life and participatory politics. Antonio plays guitar in the band People People, is editor of the San Francisco Art and Politics magazine, director of the In Sear ...
U. Roberto (Robin) Romano is an Award-Winning Producer, Director, Director of Photography, and Still Photographer. He is one of the most respected investigative filmmakers in the world whose credits include: The Harvest,The Dark Side of Chocolate, Children of the Fields, and Stolen Childhoods. He is the director of Romano Film and Photography and a graduate of Amherst College.
Founded by James Walsh, the Romero Theater Troupe has been performing plays about social justice issues for the past four years. It is a nonprofit organization whose members believe in giving away profits to worthy social and charitable organizations. The group's motto, Social Justice Through Organic Theater captures its focus on issues of human rights. Organic theater is a raw process involving a collective effort to develop scenes and shape productions. Romero Theater Troupe does not have a director; instead, members rely upon a communal vision and faith and love in each other. Actors are f ...
Danny Ronen has a great nose. He has been using it to sniff out the new and exciting in the world of international wine, spirits, food and travel. He is continuously thankful of the people and experiences that have lead him down this delightful and irreverent path. In 2001, Ronen formed DC Spirits, a food, wine and spirits educational organization with a focus on sustainability. In 2009, the Fair Trade Spirits Company in France found Ronen and they quickly realized their shared passions were aligned. Ronen is currently the Brandmaster for FAIR, the first line of Fair Trade spirits in the world ...
Matt Roney is a staff researcher at the Earth Policy Institute (EPI) in Washington, DC. In 2006 he graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a B.A. in environmental conservation. Matt has been with EPI since 2007, working with founder and president Lester R. Brown and the research team on many publications. He has also written articles on wind and solar energy trends, as well as world bicycle production and promotion. Currently, Matt is pursuing a master's degree in environmental sciences and policy from Johns Hopkins University, with a focus on Chesapeake Bay conservation and manag ...
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Rooks is a writer, educator and producer whose work weaves the worlds of spirituality, feminism, ecology and social justice with a passion for engaged dialogue as way of bridging various divides. For the past three years she has hosted a monthly teleseminar, ConverZations That Matter, featuring such globalthought leaders as Brian Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Carl Anthony, Riane Eisler, Barbara Holmes and astronaut Edgar Mitchell, as part of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Shift in Action Series.Rooks has actively created opportunities for ongoing intergenerational dialogues and mentoring wit ...
Dave Room co-founded Bay Localize, a for-impact organization thatinspires and supports Bay Area residents in building equitable, resilient communities.Dave's most important identifier is Melia's Papa. On stage, Melia's Papa uses storytelling and solo performance theater to awaken and activate mainstream audiences, people of color and youth. Melia's Papa founded the Collective Liberation Tour which hosts ecologically-themed story slams internationally. Pacha's Pajamas, teaches pre-teens and families about humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Pacha's Pajamas is a children’s boo ...
Autumn Rooney is the co-founder and director of the Echo Park Time Bank, formed in 2008. TimeBanking involves an exchange of services without using the cash economy. For every hour spent doing something for someone else, you earn a TimeDollar that can be used for having someone do something for you. Autumn is helping coordinate the Time Bank Neighborhood Resiliency Project, a series of workshops facilitated through the Arroyo Time Bank, NELA Transition and the Echo Park Time Bank. Designed to nurture a more self-reliant community, the classes focus on the skills and practices -such as conflic ...
Roots, Beans and Greens is a Denver based, healthy living workshop, inspired by RBG Fit Club and the HipHop health and food justice curriculum, Going Green Living Bling, created by Ietef Vita and Neambe LeadonVita. This workshop features live juicing and smoothies made from organically grown produce with an aim towards 100% traceable origin/locally grown foods. Roots, Beans and Greens also shines a light on local art with live music performances, break dancing and film screenings. This August 2012 marks the one year anniversary of this free, community event.
Since 1975, Debbie Rosas and Carlos Rosas have been leaders and pioneers in the fitness and wellness industry. They have devoted their personal and professional lives toward the dream of creating a fitness and lifestyle program that would meet the needs of all people. In 1983, at the height of the nopain, nogain fitness mentality, Debbie and Carlos created Nia, a pleasurable way to get fit, maintain health and have more fun while working out. By taking off their shoes and eliminating repetitive jogging and jumping, they catalyzed one of the most dramatic changes to take place in the fitness in ...
Lila rose is a Torontoborn, Californiabased singer/songwriter gone electroacoustic. Her arrangements incorporate an eclectic array of sounds from simple live instrumentation to electronic beats and production, often adding vocal layering and effects to build expansive sonic experiences that borrow elements of hip hop, folk, electronica, pop, world beat, and vocal experimentation. Her releases include: The Very First, the hit single single Strap It To Ya and the new EP Osmos Your Sonica. Lila is currently in the studio working on her first fulllength album Sacred Irreverence.Since 1996, Youth S ...
Rose is the Co-Executive Director of NBIS, the Network for Business Innovation and Sustainability. Founded over eight years ago, NBIS provides programs and networking opportunities that link professionals and businesses with the tools, coaching and resources they need to advance sustainability and profitability in their companies and organizations. NBIS’ Grassroots Leadership program, GreenBag Lunches and monthly Eco-Hours provide opportunities to meet like-minded individuals across industries and to gain inspiration and tools for advancing sustainability. NBIS’ Accelerating Sustainability ...
Marla Rose is a journalist and freelance writer based in Oak Park, IL. She co-founded the Chicago Vegan Family Network, EarthSave Chicago, and the annual popular cultural festival, Chicago VeganMania. She was recently published in the essay collection This I Believe: On Motherhood and has also recently published her first novel, The Adventures of Vivian Sharpe, Vegan Superhero. With a background in humane education, she believes that cultivating our natural compassion is the most powerful thing we can do to ensure the survival of the planet and thrive as individuals.
Tommy Rosen is a certified Vinyasa Flow and Kundalini Yoga Teacher and a leading authority on addiction and recovery, with 20 years experience helping others to overcome addictions of every kind. He is one of the pioneers in the relatively new field of Yoga and Recovery, which utilizes yoga and meditation to help people to move beyond addiction and build fulfilling lives. Tommy teaches yoga at Naam Yoga LA and Bhakti Yoga Shala and runs workshops and retreats internationally. He also teaches and speaks regularly at yoga conferences and festivals, including the Wanderlust Festivals, Hanuman Fes ...
Rachel Rosenberg is Executive Director of Safer Pest Control Project, a non profit in Chicago dedicated to reducing the health risks and environmental impacts of pesticides and promoting safer alternatives in Illinois. Rachel Rosenberg has over 20 years of nonprofit management. She graduated with a masters degree in nonprofit management from New York University and has a bachelors degree from the University of Michigan. A former owner of an organic lawn care company, Rosenberg enjoys teaching people how to take care of their lawns without the use of pesticides.
As a community organizer, volunteer and educator, Jay Rosenberg has been involved with sustainable agriculture projects in rural and urban settings since the early 2000s. In that time, Jay has traveled the world collaborating on farms and food gardens, including: City Farm in Chicago; a 14-acre farm and tropical food forest in Maui; and edible gardens in Miami, London, Sydney and locations throughout California. Jay is currently the Volunteer Coordinator for the San Francisco Permaculture Guild and is actively building education and research programs focused on gardens, food and community thr ...
Shawn Rosenmoss is a Senior Environmental Specialist with the City's Department of the Environment, where she oversees Grants, Fundraising, and Community Partnerships. In addition to helping to grant $1M annually to Zero Waste and Environmental Justice projects, she coordinates securing funds for many SF Environment projects and programs. She is responsible for developing environmental partnerships with myriad nonenvironmentally focussed entities such as the Greenstacks partnership with SF Public Library, a collaboration that weaves sustainability through programming, collections, branch renov ...