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S.O.S. Juice is a solar powered juice and smoothie bar that will serve organic, locally-grown,seasonal juice and smoothies to uplift the health of our communities.In January 2012, SOS Juice began a monthly live juice, urban art, and health education forum atUnited Roots, Oakland. S.O.S (System out of Our System) Juice is Earth Amplified’s monthly community event that educates participants on the benefits of juicing and healthy lifestyles. It provides pathways for its attendees to create healthy lifestyles via the direct consumption of live juice from fresh fruits and vegetables, conscious ur ...

Emma Saal's positive energy encourages her students to cultivate a practice that is personal and nourishing while exploring their edge, and her laid-back vibe allows one listen to their inner-teacher learning to accept from a place of gratitude. She believes the body has profound inner intelligence that we access during yoga practice to bring us self-awareness and comprehension that ultimately reveals our true core…pure love.

John Sacelli is the author of The AngeLynx Oracle and Angelish Dictionary, the founder of CHI KA GO, and a long-time alternative practitioner in Chicago.

AlisonSaffoldis the Director of Communications for the Chicago Climate Action Plan, the City of Chicago's blueprint for lowering greenhouse gas emissions and addressing climate change.

Carl Safina is a prominent ecologist and marine conservationist and president ofBlue Ocean Institute, an environmental organization based in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. He has also been a recreational fisherman since childhood. “I love the hunt and know the thrill of the kill,” Safina told William J. Broad for theNew York Times(September 22, 1998). “But I’m not sure we should be doing it. They [the fish] need a break.” After reaching the conclusion that, if overfishing were to continue at the current rate, entire populations of fish might cease to exist, Safina became an advocate ...

Upon leaving her village in the Andes at age 17 in search of a better life, Evangelina Pizarro found a job in a jewelry factory in Lima and worked nearly 80 hours a week (earning only $115 a month). She was raising two children alone and was locked in the factory each day until the managers decided it was okay for the workers to go home. Evangelina had no choice when she could leave to care for her children or when she would get paid which was often not for 6 months at a time. After seven monotonous years in the factory, Evangelina decided that she deserved better. She convinced several other ...

Sala has been a prosecutor and public speaker for more 15 years. She is currently the Community Court prosecutor for the Seattle City Attorneys Office, a problemsolving court designed to reduce recidivism by connecting nonviolent offenders with various social service agencies to address homelessness, poverty and isolation. This is a pilot program wherein Salas role is to screen individuals for eligibility, ensure offenders are held accountable for their criminal behavior and engage in program planning and development. Sala previously worked as community prosecutor assisting community members ...

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: JOEL F. SALATINJoel Salatin, 51, is a fulltime farmer in Virginias Shenandoah Valley. A third generation alternative farmer, he returned to the farm fulltime in 1982 and continued refining and adding to his parents ideas.The farm services more than 2,000 families, 10 retail outlets, and 30 restaurants through onfarm sales and metropolitan buying clubs with salad bar beef, pastured poultry, eggmobile eggs, pigaerator pork, foragebased rabbits, pastured turkey and forestry products using relationship marketing.He holds a BA degree in English and writes extensively in maga ...

Dennis is president and co-founder with his wife and partner Lenora of Salazar Packaging, Inc. where they provide custom eco friendly packaging solutions. They also offer stock green packaging products through www.GlobeGuardProducts.com which was the first internet store featuring all eco-friendly packaging supplies. Most recently they launched www.ReusablePackagingOptions.com which features innovative products such as their Globe Guard® Reusable Box and Globe Guard® Reusable Box Sealer™. Dennis is also the founding member of Green Packaging Group which features products and advice from s ...

Leila is the Program Director at Amazon Watch overseeing its programs and campaigns to defend the Amazon and advance indigenous rights. She has over 15 years of experience working on international campaigns to defend the world's rainforests, in particular in the Amazon and Indonesia. Previously she was the Director of Rainforest Action Network's Rainforest Agribusiness Campaign and the coordinator of Amazon Watch's Clean Up Ecuador Campaign. She has also worked as an organizer at Global Exchange, an international human rights organization, and is a graduate of Green Corps, the training school ...

Claudia Salerno Caldera is the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Change for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Before her appointment to this post by President Hugo Chavez earlier this year, she led the International Cooperation Office at the Ministry of People's Power for the Environment. As Venezuela's chief climate negotiator, she is most wellknown for her intervention in the Copenhagen climate summit (COP 16) where she protested the imposition of the Copenhagen Accord by a small group of developed countries, after it became clear that they would only have a few minutes to ...

Dirk Sampselle is Founder of B Revolution Consulting, a benefit corporation consulting firm which structures, funds, and markets B Corporations. Dirk is an expert in the benefit corporation legal entity and strategy for mission-driven enterprises. He is a former member of the B Lab public policy team, and is one of the three principal authors of the Benefit Corporation White Paper, the legislative memorandum that is used to educate legislators on the benefit corporation legal form and facilitate legislative adoption by the States. Presently, he is co-authoring two law review articles, each o ...

Julie Sanches, a volunteer for Hostelling International, gives presentations and workshops to the DC community on World Travel and how to be a respectful traveler. Having been to over 50 countries, Julie is keen to open the minds and hearts of Americans to venture out, explore and embrace other cultures all while reducing their individual footprint.

With a deep knowledge in sales, advertising and marketing and having the experience of knowing how to take a business from concept to market David joined with Charles Feit to help successfully launch OnForce Solar. Headquartered in Bronx, NY., OnForce Solar started out with 2 employees installing solar pool systems and today employs over 20 people designing, financing and building large commercial solar projects in the tri-state area. Prior to joining OnForce Solar, David was V.P of Sales for The Media Power Group introducing new carrier-agnostic mobile application to advertisers. In 2005 Da ...

Richard has been in the specialty coffee industry for the past 7 years and currently helps develop transparent supply chains between coffee companies and coffee farmers and farm workers at Fair Trade USA. In that time, he has been fortunate to explore the world of specialty coffee in both coffee growing and consuming countries. He has had the pleasure of working with coffee farmers in Rwanda and Nicaragua and has served you coffee throughout the Bay Area. Over the past few years, he has become an active member in the Specialty Coffee Association of America and the Barista Guild of America. He ...

Santistevan is from Taos, New Mexico and is currently engaged in a Ph.D. program in the Biology Department at the University of New Mexico. Most recently, he worked as Project Director for the New Mexico Acequia Association. Acequias are communally managed irrigation ditches that have served as local democracies for several centuries in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. With the NMAA, Miguel coordinated the Sembrando Semillas, a youth project created to inspire and facilitate the coming of the next generation of irrigators and local agricultural activists. He has a Bachelor of Science ...

Vanessa Santos is a Project Designer and a recent graduate of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design with her Master in Landscape Architecture. She worked in garden design and maintenance with Campion Walker Garden Design in Venice, CA before joining the residential team at Mia Lehrer + Associates. Her passion in gardening is focused on habitat creation, sustainable climate-adapted planting and quiet beauty. Mia Lehrer + Associates is internationally recognized for its progressive landscape design and development of a wide spectrum of ambitious public and private projects that inclu ...

A McGill University alumni from Montreal, Canada, Sunny is now a graduate student in the Department of Engineering and Computing Sciences at the New York Institute of Technology. Her work includes being the energy analyst and data manager for the Long Island Carbon Footprint Project.Sunny’s field of study includes environmental engineering, renewable energy, energy policy, carbon accounting, and, of course, sustainability.

In January of 2013, when Sara Moulton kicks off her third season as host of public television’s “Sara’s Weeknight Meals,” it will be the latest milestone in a storied career that stretches back more than 30 years. As a protégée of Julia Child, founder of the New York Women’s Culinary Alliance, executive chef of Gourmetmagazine, Food Editor of ABC-TV’s ”Good Morning America,” and the host of several popular shows on the Food Network during that channel’s first decade, the diminutive chef has made her mark over and over again. A teacher at heart, Sara’s mission has remained ...

Sara Harris is host and senior producer of Hear in the City: radio realities from the urban landscape (broadcast on KPFK 90.7FM in Los Angeles). An audio artist and radio journalist with 15 years experience in Los Angeles and Mexico, Sara brings a strong commitment to issues of urban environment, education, public wellness, and social equality to the forefront of the media conversation. Sara’s radio stories have been featured on Marketplace, All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Studio 360, The Next Big Thing, Living on Earth, BBC’s The World, and Mexico’s IMER national network. Sara ...

Stacie-Saraswati Dooreck is a Certified Gentle Integral Yoga Instructor, Certified Sivananda Hatha Yoga Instructor Since 1995, and a Certified Kundalini teacher, bringing a wealth of knowledge to her classes. Stacie used chair yoga while healing from an illness and continues to share with others the benefits of chair yoga. In 2011 she was featured on CBS Ch. 4 News Healthwatch teaching "Yoga for Seniors". In addition, Stacie is a Certified Fall Prevention Trainer for seniors and trained as an Enhanced Fitness Instructor (evidence based chair exercises and fitness for seniors including cardi ...

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

Six years ago, Saulter exchanged her car keys for a bus pass. Though she originally gave up driving out of concern about the detrimental effects of car culture on the environment (global warming, pollution and deforestation, to name a few), the decision has profoundly and positively changed her life. Now married with a young daughter, she is more committed than ever to her choice. Saulter and her family love getting around by busnot just because of their concern for the planet or the physical and financial benefits of riding transit, but also because it's fun. Saulter writes the blog Bus Chic ...

A fulltime mom, an environmentalist, and a former National Park Service ranger, Savedge is author of The Green Parent: A KidFriendly Guide to EarthFriendly Living.

Levana Saxon is an organizer and educator with Practicing Freedom, using participatory action research, popular education, theater and creative action to generate collaborative community-led change with schools and non-profits including the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and the Movement Strategy Center. She also organizes, writes and choreographs flash mobs with the What Rhymes With Capitalism? Flash Mob Collective, best known for their "I Will Survive Capitalism." As a teenager she built giant puppets and performed with Art and Revolution and facilitated Theater of the Oppressed public i ...

Ashley Schaeffer is the Rainforest Agribusiness Campaigner at Rainforest Action Network. Born and raised in Mendocino County, Ashley Schaeffer comes from a family of solar energy pioneers. A lifelong vegetarian and passionate animal rights activist, she is fiercely committed to halting industrial expansion of oil palm plantations to ensure that orangutans don't become extinct. Before joining RAN in 2009, Ashley worked on social and environmental justice campaigns across the country with Amazon Watch, Green Corps, and finally Greenpeace for several years. Prior to her organizing career she work ...

Ethan Schaffer is the co-founder of GrowFood.org , an international nonprofit dedicated to training a new generation of organic farmers. The organization has grown into a network of over 2,100 farms in 57 countries where people can work and learn. In 2009, Grow Food launched Viva Farms, a 33 acre farm incubator located one hour north of Seattle in the Skagit Valley. Ethan was a recipient of the Brower Youth Award, a top national honor for young environmental leaders. He survived lymphoma cancer when he was 15 years old.

Mark Schapiro is editorial director of the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco. He has written extensively on foreign affairs and his work has appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine and other publications, and he has reported stories for Frontline, NOW with Bill Moyers, and American Publice Media's Marketplace.

Dr. C. Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at MIT, the founding chair of the Presencing Institute, and a founding member of the MIT Green Hub. Scharmer has consulted with global companies, international institutions, and governments in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He has codesigned and delivered awardwinning business leadership programs for client firms including Daimler, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Fujitsu, and Google. He also facilitates crosssector programs for leaders in business, government, and civil society that focus on building peoples collective capacity to achieve profound in ...

Scheer is foremost a connector. With broad experience in the private, public and nonprofit sectors, he loves to think strategically about how to create the spaces where communities grow and thrive. Scheer excels at building, extending and utilizing networks by utilizing social marketing, creating buzz and working to identify and build upon areas of shared interest across diverse groups of people.Scheer is founder and managing director of ReVision Labs, a Seattlebased consultancy working to harness the power of business to build a vibrant and sustainable world. He is also founder and executive ...

Schendler is executive director of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company. Previously a research associate in corporate sustainability at Rocky Mountain Institute, Auden has been a trailer insulator, burger flipper, ambulance medic, Outward Bound instructor, high school math and English teacher, freelance writer and Forest Service goose nest island builder. An avid outdoorsman, Schendler has climbed Denali, North America's highest peak, and kayaked the Grand Canyon in winter. His writing has been published in Harvard Business Review, The Los Angeles Times, Rock and Ice and Salon.com, among oth ...

Karen Schiff is cofounder of Ecobunga!, an online directory listing hundreds of green giveaways and deals with over 10,000 ecoconscious shoppers on their newsletter, Facebook, RSS, and Twitter feeds. Ecobunga! launched in 2008 and is a Green America approved business.Schiff is responsible for content and marketing and has reviewed thousands of green promotions, screening each to ensure that the listing is truly a green, genuine deal. She and her business partner launched Ecobunga! In response to research which showed cost as the top impediment to people buying green

Author, chef, food product creator and former restauranteur, Miyoko Schinner has created and promoted healthful, vegetarian/vegan cuisine for 30 years. She is the author of three vegan cookbooks and has written for numerous publications. Her products and unique approach to vegan cuisine have been featured in numerous publications, television and radio shows, including the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, Newsweek, New York Post, ABC World News Tonight, NPR’s Marketplace and California Report. She teaches cooking in the McDougall Program and has created a whimsical WebTV ...

Mark Schlosberg is the national organizing director, and is responsible for developing strategies for Food ; Water Watch's national campaigns and managing the organizing department. For over fifteen years, Mark has developed and carried out organizing and advocacy campaigns on a wide range of environmental, racial justice, and civil liberties issues. At Food ; Water Watch since 2008, Mark was previously western regional director and is based in San Francisco. Before joining Food ; Water Watch, Mark worked as a policy director at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California where ...

Marianne Schnall is a widely published writer and interviewer. She is also the founder and Executive Director of Feminist.com, a leading women’s website and nonprofit organization. For over fifteen years, Feminist.com has been fostering awareness, education, and activism for people all across the world. Marianne is also the cofounder of EcoMall.com, one of the oldest environmental websites promoting earth-friendly living. Marianne has worked for many media outlets and publications. Her interviews with well-known individuals appear at Feminist.com as well as in publications such as O, The Op ...

Scholz is vice president for Knowledge Systems at Ecotrust, a Portlandbased conservation organization committed to strengthening communities and the environment from Alaska to California.

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

A staff scientist for Washington Toxics Coalition, Schreder leads her organizations work on agriculture and provides scientific support for all of their campaigns.

Don Schrider is a poultry aficionado, authoring many articles on breeding and raising chickens that have appeared in such publications as Mother Earth News, Backyard Poultry, Chickens, Countryside and Small Stock Journal, and Poultry Press, as well as authoring the Chicken Assessment for Improving Production materials of the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy (ALBC). Don is a master breeder of Brown Leghorn and Buckeye chickens. He designed and implemented the ALBC's Buckeye Chicken Recovery Project, which has resulted in the significant rise of Buckeyes that meet the APA Standard of Perfec ...

Steve Schueth (pronounced “sheeth”) is President of First Affirmative Financial Network, an independent Colorado-based registered investment advisor that offers portfolio management services for socially conscious individuals and mission-driven institutional investors. He leads the team that produces the premier annual sustainable, responsible, impact investing conference, SRI in the Rockies. Having been focused on financial services in one form or another for over 30 years, Mr. Schueth has been a nationally recognized authority, consultant, and resource to the SRI industry since 1989. His ...

Brent Schulkin is the founder of the Carrotmob movement. In a Carrotmob campaign, businesses compete to determine how socially responsible they can be, and a network of consumers spends money to support the winner. It’s essentially the opposite of a boycott. Since orchestrating the first ever Carrotmob campaign in 2008, he has built a non-profit organization to support Carrotmob organizers around the world. Thus far, over 120 campaigns have been organized. Carrotmob is currently working on expanding their network to include some of the largest companies in the world.

Bryony Schwan is the executive director and cofounder of The Biomimicry Institute, a nonprofit organization that promotes the new science of biomimicry. Bryony is also an affiliate faculty member at the University of Montana where she teaches in the environmental studies program.Prior to that Bryony worked for 11 years as the executive director and then as the national campaigns director for Women's Voices for the Earth (WVE) a nonprofit environmental justice organization that she founded in 1995. WVE works on the links between toxic pollution and women's and children's health. From 2001 to 20 ...

Kirsten Schwindis co-founder and Program Director of Bay Localize, where she specializes in equitable climate adaptation. She authored The Community Resilience Toolkit, an adaptation planning curriculum now used in 46 states and 30 countries. She co-authored Tapping the Potential of Urban Rooftops, which won an award from the American Planning Association's California Chapter. She holds a BA in Economics and a MS in Natural Resources. She formerly served as the Chair of the City of Berkeley's Energy Commission. She has also worked extensively in food systems and international trade policy at ...

Tammy Schwolsky is the CEO of Residential Energy Assessment Services (REAS), Inc. and co-founder of JTRL’s Train To Sustain BPI Energy Auditor Training Program. Tammy specializes in green building and building science based single and multi-family energy audits and retrofits. Her background as a LEED® Accredited Professional; GreenPoint Rater, HERS Rater; Home Performance with Energy Star Contractor and a BPI trainer motivated her to launch the ZENERGY House project. This high performance green home is the first comprehensive remodel in Los Angeles that combines Home Performance with enviro ...

D'Artagnan is a UCLA graduate with a B.A. in the Study of Religion and also has a B.S. in Liberal Studies with an emphasis in business Management from National University. Currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Education at UCLA, he established the Black Male Youth Academy (BMYA) at Morningside High School, a literacy development program that helps youth use research to create change in their communities. D'Artagnan is an US Navy Iraq War Veteran and served a two-year term as a member of the Board of Regents, University of California. He participated in the governance of the Univers ...

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SCRAP is a creative reuse center, store and workshop space founded in 1976 in San Francisco, California. Donations of high quality, low cost, reusable materials such as textiles, paper, jewelry findings, wood, buttons and plastics are collected from businesses, institutions and individuals then sorted, displayed and distributed by SCRAP for artists, educational and community groups. Free materials and art activities are provided through our community outreach service. By breathing new life into old objects, SCRAP reduces the amount of waste going to crowded landfills. By offering low cost art ...

Lauren Segal-Avenna is the Co-Founder and Director of NextAid, a Los Angeles-based organization supporting sustainable development projects that serve vulnerable youth and women in Africa.Once inspired by LiveAid (the first global concert for Africa), Lauren later found an ideal niche’ for NextAid by harnessing the power of electronic music and tapping the next generation of potential change-makers. During NextAid’s seven years, Lauren coordinated over 100 events, several benefit CD projects and dozens of fundraising campaigns, earning NextAid the role of the leading activist organization ...

When not creating herb gardens out of toasters at Three Bees Nursery, Elan is a dedicated activist working to reshape traditional agriculture and the current food system into a sustainable form that is beneficial to both the environment and people. In San Francisco this translates to volunteering at incredible organizations such as Garden for the Environment and the San Francisco Urban Agriculture Alliance. Most recently, Elan helped the SFUAA organize a successful mayoral candidate forum aimed at encouraging the next mayor to support the burgeoning urban agriculture community, continue the pr ...

Growing up, MK had interesting choices on her dinner plate every night – Venison, Smelt, Head Cheese, Ring Baloney… maybe a little rabbit or pheasant if she was lucky. MK’s parents grew up on farms in Michigan and her dad was an exceptional sportsman, who influenced every meal in her younger years. MK learned the importance of sustainable living and developed a unique palate for living off the land and lake. Throughout the years the importance of food became ever more personal. MK produced television and media around the globe and with her high metabolism, she was constantly hungr ...

Neil Seldman is co founder and president of the Institute for Local SelfReliance in Washington, DC. Before cofounding ILSR in l974 Seldman was a manufacturer and university lecturer in political science and the history of ideas. Seldman specializes in starting and expanding recycling enterprises. Most recently he has focused on deconstruction of buildings and resale of used building materials. Seldman coordinates a network of technical assistance in this field throughout the US. He is also an advisor to communities seeking alternatives to incineration of garbage; emphasizing the economic dange ...

Seliga's coursework in the Community and Environmental Planning Program at the University of Washington on integrated urban planning and sustainable food systems because food affects everyone, every day, and impacts the economy, public health, social justice, and environmental sustainability

Katie Selma is taking the “think globally, eat locally” concept and changing her community. Born and raised in Northern Virginia, a bustling region a few minutes south of Washington, DC, at a young age Katie and her younger sister had been introduced to a diverse array of international cuisine from the Mediterranean, Sweden, Latin America and, of course, West Indian dishes passed down from her Jamaican great-grandparents. With her natural born appetite for exploration and adventure, in 2008, Katie set her sights on to journey off from the East and head to San Francisco to complete her degr ...

Lauren Selman is a leader in green production and entertainment. She is the Founder of Reel Green Media, LLC, an environmental consulting company dedicated to environmental responsibility in the entertainment industry. She has worked with the major motion picture studios, independent features, commercials and hit shows like "It's Always Sunny Philadelphia." Her work on Benjamin and Peter Bratt's "La Mission," earned an Environmental Media Award in 2009. Selman has been a speaker for the United Nations, the National Alliance of Hazardous Waste Managers, The Association of Film Commissioners Int ...

Mathieu Senard is co-founder of Alter Eco – a leading fair trade brand that sources a variety of food products (chocolate, rice, quinoa, sugar, olive oil) from cooperatives of small-scale farmers around the world. Mathieu’s career began at age 18 when, as a volunteer in Cambodia, he ran the Northern orphanage of Krousar Thmey in Siem Reap, a first exposure to the problematic of global poverty that naturally led him to fair trade. Having received an MBA from IEA-Paris and an MA in communication from Cal State, Long Beach helped him create a triple bottom-line business whose mission is to he ...

Environmental lifestyle expert Danny Seo describes his way of living as the crossroads where style meets sustainability. Through his best-selling books, television programs, products, magazine and syndicated newspaper columns and his how-to lifestyle lectures, Danny Seo continues to share the creative ideas that have made him America's leading lifestyle authority on modern, eco-friendly living. Born on Earth Day in 1977, Danny has championed the natural biodiversity of our planet from a very young age. On his 12th birthday, he founded the organization Earth 2000 with just a few friends and $2 ...

Jonel Seon, MBA in Sustainable Enterprise, serves the team as the Student Services Manager at the Laney College Green Jobs Team, and is responsible for recruitment, enrollment and registration, as well as light case management and developing organizational partnerships. Over the past five years, Jonel has worked with organizations like The Institute for Environmental Entrepreneurship and the Alameda Unified School District, integrating project initiatives that have led to improved organizational productivity, strengthened stakeholder relationships, and a stronger commitment to triple-bottom-li ...

Ingrid Severson is a Bay Area native and co-founder of Bay Localize where she served for three years as a Project Organizer and Steering Committee Member. Ingrid initiated the Rooftop Resources Project, a Bay Localize program that researches and advocates for the advancement of rainwater catchment, solar power, living roofs and edible roof gardens. She has led multiple design and installation workshops in the Bay Area region and is a certified Permaculture Designer, and an ARCSA Accredited Professional. She has also held a professional therapeutic massage practice for ten years. She currently ...

As a co-founder of LEAP (Land Empowerment Animals People), Angela Sevin has worked and volunteered in many capacities for a wide spectrum of social profit organizations as an organizer, outdoor educator, group leader, peer counselor and mentor. Angela encourages people from all walks of life to come together and share their hopes and desires as well as sorrow and despair about the condition of life here on our planet home. She has worked toward creating educational environments inclusive of social change ideals and activist principles balanced with collective wisdom and individual empowerment ...

Executive Director of Plug in America, a coalition advocating the use of plugin vehicles, Sexton worked on General Motors EV1 program until its 2001 demise.

Since her arrival to Chicago six years ago, Estrella’s work experience has been very diverse, from City Colleges of Chicago, Non-profit Organizations, Advertising Agencies, and now for Tribune’s Hoy Newspaper, the only daily Spanish’s newspaper in Chicago. Estrella believes that working for Corporate Organizations should not stop us from empowering our communities, and we should use all tools available to educate and help them. “We can make a profit and at the same time help our community.” As an Account Executive in Hoy, Estrella uses her expertise in Hispanic Market to plan adver ...

Tim Sexton is the founder of The Sexton Company, which since 2003 has worked closely with the Philadelphia Eagles to create and implement one of the most comprehensive sustainability programs in the U.S. This program has become the gold standard of sustainability for sports and entertainment. Tim was Executive Producer of Live 8 - the largest music event in history, resulting in the G8 nations changing their policies on debt relief and HIV/AIDS treatment for all affected children in the world’s poorest countries. Tim was also a Producer of American Idol Gives Back, which raised $80Mn in a s ...

Dahlia Shaaban is a wellness consultant and the founder of BellySatva Holistic Health, a practice that integrates holistic health coaching, Thai yoga therapy, and yoga instruction to create sustainable paths to healing and wellness.

Shaberman is a wellestablished essayist and commentator with articles in a number of prominent publications including The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, National Public Radio, The Baltimore Sun, The Des Moines Register, VegNews, Vegetarian Times and Clean Sheets Erotica Magazine. His book of collected essays, The Vegan Monologues, was released in April 2009 by Apprentice House (Loyola University in Baltimore).

Kate Shackford is Executive Vice President overseeing business services for the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation (BOEDC), economic consultants to Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. Until recently, Ms. Shackford was Director for Energy and the Environment at BOEDC. The Borough President has established the Bronx Initiative for Energy and the Environment, which Kate also manages. The Initiative has three grants programs and a no interest Environmental Revolving Loan Fund. Kate assists local businesses in becoming more environmentally friendly and energy efficient in making r ...

Shaffer is the newly appointed president and CEO of RSF Social Finance (www.rsfsocialfinance.org). Prior to joining RSF, he served as executive director of the Business Alliance for Local, Living Economies (BALLE). He has over twelve years experience building social mission companies including Comet Skateboards, a designer and manufacturer of premium skateboarding products.

Shah is the local policy director for Green Jobs for All, a national organization dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.

Shakhour is the director of Goodwill of Greater Washington.

Kemba Shakur, fondly referred to as the ""Tree Lady"", is the Founder and Director of Urban Releaf, an urban forestry nonprofit responsible for the planting and caring of an estimated 15,000 trees in low-income East Bay communities. During the 1990’s Kemba moved to West Oakland and was struck by the lack of greenery. She founded Urban Releaf 14 years ago, guiding it to success by abiding by two key principles - creating a more beautiful community where residents take pride in where they live and offering opportunities for at-risk youth and unemployed adults to gain marketable skills. Current ...

Anas “Andy” Shallal is an artist and social entrepreneur. He was born in Iraq and moved to Washington DC with his family in 1966.He is the founder of Busboys and Poets, a restaurant, bookstore, fair trade market and a community where racial and cultural connections are consciously uplifted. A space where art, culture and politics intentionally collide. A place to feed your body, mind and soul. Busboys and Poets is named after the great poet Langston Hughes, who was known as the busboy-poet. Since its inception Busboys and Poets has been a magnate for book talks, community gatherings, ...

Sarah Shanley Hope is a leader in the movement for thriving, sustainable, and sovereign communities. As the Executive Director of Alliance for Climate Education (ACE), Shanley Hope leads a growing, national organization that works with high school students to understand, take action on and become leaders in local and community solutions to climate change. ACE has reached over 1.3 million students in mostly public schools across 23 US states since 2009. She also sits on the board of People’s Grocery, an organization reinventing the future of West Oakland through a combined program of urban ...

Mark Schapiro is the editorial director of the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco. He has written extensively on foreign affairs and his work has appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine and other publications, and he has reported stories for Frontline, NOW with Bill Moyers, and public radio's Marketplace. He is the author of Exposed: the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and Whats At Stake for American Power.

Eric C. Sharer, MPH, RD, LDN, is a Registered Dietitian (RD), as well as a culinary expert, who is dedicated to promoting and embracing the health benefits of a plant based diet for disease prevention, treatment, and optimal health. His passion for food and health began at the age of 13, while working in a restaurant/resort. He combined his passion for cooking and nutrition by earning an Associate’s Degree in Culinary Arts and a Bachelor’s Degree in Culinary Nutrition, both from Johnson & Wales University, in Providence, Rhode Island. He then earned a Master of Public Health, with a concen ...

In 2002 Laura left a career as a research scientist to devote herself full time to training dogs. She owns and operates WOOFS! Dog Training Center - Arlington VA. WOOFS, offer more than 20 classes per week from Puppy Kindergarten to Agility, and Rally Obedience. Laura is obsessed with facilitating communication between owners and dogs and is always striving to find innovative ways to bridge the gap. In her spare time she competes in agility with her border collies Pagan and Caleb, and spends time training her cockatoo Darwin.

Sharon Lee is the Executive Director of the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI), a non-profit organization based in Seattle. She oversees a staff of 120 engaged in low-income housing development, management, advocacy and supportive services. LIHI staff has developed over 3,800 units of rental and homeownership housing in Washington State. LIHI owns 1,800 units serving individuals, families, seniors, homeless people and those with special needs. LIHI is a leader in developing green affordable housing. Lee is Executive Editor of the statewide Housing Washington newsletter and is an advocate on i ...

Sharon Smith is an organizer and trainer, active in social change movements for global justice, human rights and environmental sustainability. She has worked with student networks to achieve landmark environmental victories in the logging and finance sectors, and has trained thousands of youth in advocacy for social change. As Program Advisor for the Brower Youth Awards at Earth Island Institute, Sharon supported hundreds of emerging environmental activists annually and co-produced Emmy award-winning films shown on The Sundance Channel and PBS. A California native, she currently resides in New ...

Charles Shaw's work has appeared in Alternet, Alternative Press Review, Conscious Choice, Common Ground,Grist,Guerrilla News Network, Huffington Post, In These Times, Newtopia, The New York Times, openDemocracy, Planetizen, Punk Planet, Reality Sandwich, San Diego Uptown News, Scoop, Shift, Truthout, The Witness,YES!, and Znet. Shaw is the author of Exile Nation: Drugs, Prisons, Politics ; Spirituality and was a Contributing Author to the2008 Shift Report from theInstitute for Noetic Sciences, and inPlanetizen's Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning (2007, Island Press). In 2009 he was re ...

Irv Sheffey is the Associate Field Organizer (DC) for Sierra Club’s Environmental Justice and Community Partnerships Program. He works with community based organizations in Washington, DC addressing environmental problems and providing technical and logistical support as needed Sheffey has served as a member of the DC Mayor’s Green Building Advisory Council; the Outreach and Education Sub-Committee of the Mayor’s Green Collar Jobs Council and actively promotes building a sustainable, green economy through grassroots efforts. He is a board member of Groundwork Anacostia and a co-founder ...

Dr. Valerie Shelton is a green entrepreneur, green building consultant, energy auditor, and trainer. Her background is in scientific research, and she applies this knowledge to inform clients of energy efficient and ecofriendly solutions for their homes, buildings, and businesses. She is an independently authorized agent of Green Irene, a national network of ecoconsultants helping businesses adopt sustainable practices and earn the Green Business Bureau Certification.By serving as an outsourced Chief Sustainability Officer, Dr. Shelton helps businesses develop their sustainability strategy; i ...

Joey Shepp is an Internet entrepreneur, professional speaker and sustainability consultant. He is the Green MBA Director at Dominican University of California and Principal Consultant at Earthsite, a digital media agency for sustainable brands. Mr. Shepp is also the founder of GreenMaven.com, the world’s largest Green Search Engine. Joey holds a degree in Ecological Design from UC Santa Cruz, an MBA in Sustainable Enterprise from Dominican University of CA and is a black belt in Aikido. He lives and works in the North Bay Area, California.

Steve Sherman is a founder and the Chief Operating Officer of GreenChoice Bank, the first holistically sustainability-oriented community bank in the Midwest. Sherman is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional (LEED AP) who, prior to founding GreenChoice Bank, was at LaSalle Bank, where he served as a strategic advisor to the President of the bank. When LaSalle was acquired by Bank of America in 2007, he saw the need for a different kind of bank that was conscious of the needs of its customers, its communities, and the environment. Sherman also began his caree ...

Aqeela Sherrills has traveled the world brokering peace, but he is best known for creating the 1992 peace agreement between longtime Los Angeles gang rivals, the Bloods and the Crips. Sherrills’s inspiration came from the loss of 13 friends to gang violence. This encouraged him to lay the groundwork for peace in his neighborhood in Los Angeles. Within 10 years he had worked on the Amer-I-Can Project with former football legend Jim Brown, and established the former Community Self Determination Institute (CSDI), an agency dedicated to the transformation of his community. Between 1999 and 2006, ...

Adarsha Shivakumar is Head of ACE’s Youth Board and a Senior at College Preparatory School in Oakland.Shivakumar recognized the complex relationship between the environment and rural Indian economy at age 14, cofoundingProject Jatropha, a nonprofit promoting the plant Jatropha curcas as an ecologically-friendly and economically-sustainable source of biofuel. Shivakumar joined the ACE to motivate youth about the importance of climate change, and support them to take action.

Shore is a Commissioner on the Board of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. Elected to a sixyear term in 2006, Shore was the first openlygay nonjudicial candidate elected countywide in Cook County. Shore chairs committees on Stormwater Management and State Legislation and Rules and has been working to green the agency. Shore is currently Chairman of the Board of the Great Lakes Protection Fund and serves on the board of the Gay ; Lesbian Leadership Institute. Shore was the founding editor of Chicago Wilderness Magazine, is an active volunteer restoring prairies and ...

In the past few years, there have been few producers that have come out from behind the mixing counsel to achieve success by singing and writing pop songs. Shorter, he is a true creative and writes songs about life, love, and choices. He composes his music with patience, possibilities and the option of "what if." When you listen to his music you will enjoy the tones of today and textures of the past.

Michael Shuman is vice president for Enterprise Development for the Training and Development Corporation (TDC) of Bucksport, Maine and cofounder and active participant in the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) and a founder of Bay Friendly Chicken, a communityowned company located in Salisbury, Maryland.

As a visionary of the socially responsible business movement, Joe Sibilia is founder and CEO of Meadowbrook Lane Capital (MBLC) (www.meadowbrooklane.com), described by the Wall Street Journal as a socially responsible investment bank, specializing in turning values into valuation. He is also the CEO of CSRwire.com, (www.csrwire.com), the social responsibility newswire service that distributes and archives corporate social responsibility/ sustainability news to journalists, analysts, investors, activists, academics, public relations and investor relations professionals worldwide. Joe also found ...

Sarah Sikich is the Director of Coastal Resources at Heal the Bay and is responsible for their research, advocacy and legislative efforts related to coastal habitats and marine life. Sarah has a bachelors degree in Marine and Freshwater Biology from the University of New Hampshire and a masters degree from the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Before joining Heal the Bay, Sarah worked at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Natural Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and the Catalina Island Marine Institute. When she’s not fi ...

Martin (Marty) Silber is a CPA, and MBA, and has served as an advisor and participated on the management team of multiple leading developers of Renewable Energy projects providing expertise on evaluating market opportunities, financial modeling, business plans, renewable energy legislation, project finance, raising capital, strategic development and implementation. Marty currently works as a CFO for an Energy Efficiency firm, as well as serving as an adjunct professor at The George Washington University teaching Clean Tech/Renewable Energy to graduate students.

Silha is a freelance writer, communications consultant, facilitator and futurist. A cofacilitator of the Journalism That Matters collaborative, he was a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor and The Minneapolis Star before becoming communications director for the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.Silha coconvened the first symposium on The Media and Philanthropy at the Chicago Tribune, and worked on the research project on community communications called Good News/Good Deeds: Citizen Effectiveness in the Age of Electronic Democracy. He is past president of the Washington News Council. Silha ...

Marvin Silver serves as Senior Campaign Manager with USAction and USAction Education Fund, a national grassroots advocacy organization with partners and affiliates in 25 states. USAction builds power by uniting people locally and nationally, ontheground and online, to win a more just and progressive America. They create the nation's leading progressive coalitions, making democracy work by organizing issue and election campaigns to improve people's lives.

Steve Silver is the President and CEO of FutureMark Paper Company. Steve has more than two decades' experience in the printing and paper industries and has a successful track record of leadinggreen business transformations that result indramatically improved sales and profits. Most recently, Steve was President of Teknion, a major manufacturer of highend office furniture. Steve led Teknion's transition toward environmentally sustainable office furniture, culminating in a business strategy that nearly doubled the company's revenues in less than four years.Prior to Teknion, Steve was President a ...

Josh Silver, CEO of United Republic,is a veteran election and media reform executive. He was the campaign manager for the successful 1998 Arizona Clean Elections (public funding) ballot initiative campaign, and is the cofounder and former CEO of Free Press, the nation’s leading media and technology reform advocacy organization. He was the director of development for the cultural arm of the Smithsonian Institution.

Wendy Silvers, ALSP, C.Ht, is the creator of Visionary Mamas, and founder of the Million Mamas Movement, a movement dedicated to creating a culture of greater peace on the planet for our children, led by the mamas. She merges Universal principles with her gifts as a clairvoyant and hypnotherapist in the Stay a Sane Mama in a Seemingly Insane World program and teaches Blissful Parenting - parenting from a whole soul perspective. She considers her roles as mother to tweenager, Joie-May, and wife to John great portals of transformation.(Photo courtesy of Claire Pearce Photography).

Simani, a 16yearold junior at Lakeside School in Seattle, is a spoken word artist and writer. She has been attending Power of Hope summer camps and Hip Hop Hope camps for three years. She often participates in local community service events and is going to Senegal in July to do service work through the Global Service Learning Program at Lakeside School. In 2007, Simani was part of the Youth Speaks Seattle SLAM poetry team. In 2003, she won an international poetry contest called River of Words through which she had two of her poems published. Simani is passionate about social justice work and i ...

Forbes Magazine recently named Russell Simmons one of “Hollywood’s MostInfluential Celebrities.” USA Today named Russell Simmons one of the “Top 25Most Influential People of the Past 25 Years,” calling him a “hip-hop pioneer” for his groundbreaking vision that has influenced music, fashion, finance, the jewelry industry, television and film, as well as the face of modern philanthropy. From creating his seminal, Def Jam Recordings in 1984, to his fashion industry changing brands including Phat Farm in 1992, Baby Phat in 2001 and current men's lifestyle brand, Argyleculture; fou ...

Suzanne Simon holds a degree in environmental science/chemistry from Ohio University. After college she worked as a consultant specializing in groundwater/soil remediation. For five years, she edited and wrote for the Remediation Journal. With the launch of Loulies, much of her time is now spent cooking and writing about food. She recognizes the overlap between our environment and what we eat and the importance of sustainability. With a family of five, she is also committed to and has volunteered much of her time to healthy school lunch initiatives and public school gardens. She recently recei ...

Dr. Avé C. Sims, lightheartedly referred to as Dr. Avé, is committed to improving the health and lives of all communities by promotion of healthy living and preventive medicine through safe and reliable holistic education and resources. In 2006 Dr. Avé redirected her expertise from clinical practice to health education serving as CEO and consultant of New Life Health Specialists, PLC offering strategic planning, integrative health care curriculum, and instructional design. She delivers health, wellness, and leadership seminars in addition to lending her voice as a media spokeswoman and med ...

Hayden Sims is the Founder of BoobyLove, a non-profit community breast milk exchange located in the SF Bay Area. Hayden also Co-founded Mothership HackerMoms, the first women’s hacker space dedicated to giving mothers the time and space to explore DIY craft and design, hacker/ maker culture, and all manner of creative expression. She has a talent for teaching people how to cut through all the noise and just do the things that matter. As a mother/hacker/ entrepreneur, Hayden believes the world needs more people ardently pursuing their passions and credits the success of her ventures to the f ...

Diljeet K. Singh, MD, DrPH is a Gynecologic Oncologist at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, and holds an academic appointment as Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is the Co-Director of the Northwestern Ovarian Cancer Early Detection and Prevention Program and in 2009 was named Director of Government and International Relations for the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. She began her medical career as a student at Northwestern University medi ...