Linda is the founder of Emerald Blue, an eco-consulting and sustainable strategies practice serving businesses, residents and communities. She has been workingwith energy for over five years and on sustainability issues since 2009. Emerald Blue also provides Green Irene products and services, has a Green Business Bureau Certification and is a Women Business Enterprise (WBE). Herbackground is in planning, strategy, product and program marketing, and project management of technologies and professional services in business to business and consumer markets. Linda enjoys working with innovation ...
Kuros Zahedi is an artist and a teacher. He is originally from Iran and has lived and traveled extensively in Europe. His chief inspirations are his spirituality, the natural world and a vision of hope for civilization on earth. His work explores consciousness, the human being and its ultimate inseparability with nature.Kuros has worked with nonprofits, educational institutions and governmental organizations to successfully complete community based art projects which tap into peoples souls in order to stir significant and relevant questions about the future of humanity. He believes that a ...
Zak ZaidmanZak is cofounder of Kopali Organics and Conscious Goods Alliance, an ecoshowroom vegetable oilpowered bus tour and marketing campaign for conscious brands, as well as a cofounder of Kopali Communities, developing ultra ecological model farms and communities in Costa Rica.
Zak Lee is a founding member of the University of Washington Student Food Cooperative (UWSFC), a student-powered organization devoted to bringing sustainable and local food options to the UW community. The UWSFC is currently working on opening a cafe on campus in early fall that will offer affordable and nutritious meals and beverages. Zak, while involved with many aspects of the co-op, is using his background in computer science to build tools that enable effective internal organization and external communication.
Yochi Zakai joined Coop America as the Corporate Responsibility Programs Coordinator in July 2007. Prior to that, he was a program assistant for the Sierra Student Coalition and as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan founded Brewing Hope, a line of fair trade coffee marketed to cafes in Ann Arbor.
Zakiya Harris is a California native, who has been working as a Change Strategist for over 12 years. She is co-founder Grind for the Green, an organization committed to moving young people of color from the margins to the epicenter of the environmental movement and has served as the Regional Director of the San Francisco Green Festival. In 2011 she was named “One to Watch” by Grist.org. and includes in her accomplishments the Future Leaders Award from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights as well as Fellowships from Green For All and the Bold Food Fellowship from the US Department of Stat ...
Miguel Zamora is senior manager of the Coffee Product Supply and LAC Stakeholder Relations for Transfair USA. TransFair USA, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization, is one of twenty members of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO), and the only thirdparty certifier of fair trade products in the United States. They audit transactions between U.S. companies offering Fair Trade Certified
Deanna Zandt is a media technologist and the author of Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking (Berrett-Koehler, June 2010). She has been described as having a techie’s brain and an organizer’s heart and is a consultant to key progressive media organizations including AlterNet and Jim Hightower’s Hightower Lowdown. She is also a Research Fellow at the Center for Social Media at American University. Zandt specializes in social media, is a leading expert in women and technology, and is a frequent guest on CNN International, BBC Radio, Fox News and more. She has spo ...
Antes dequePatriciaZárate, el Chef deHomegirlCafé, se convirtió en unchef,se encontró luchando por la justiciadentro de las comunidadesmarginadasde Los Ángeles.Patitrabajo en colaboracióncon los jesuitas,proporcionandoel acceso de miembrosde la comunidada los recursos básicos,y la preparación decomidas caserasde rutinapara la comunidadlocal dela Misión Dolores.Al ser testiga delpoder dela comunióncreado en una mesa de comedor,Paticomenzó a pensar enformas en las quepodía ofrecersu pasión por lacomida enun nivel más profundodeservicio a la comun ...
Over the past 16 years, Robert Zardeneta has dedicated himself professionally to serving low income, underserved youths and their families throughout Los Angeles and its surrounding neighborhoods. Currently, Robert serves as the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Communities Advocating for Unity, Social Justice, and Action (LA CAUSA) Inc. Under his leadership, LA CAUSA has embarked on an extensive Green the East Side campaign, created a Green College and Career Center which works with the University of California Los Angeles' Center for Community College Partnerships to develop mentorship p ...
Katrina is a change agent known for coordinating and greening events around the U.S.,such as Burning Man where she was the volunteer coordinator and spark for much of their efforts. Katrinaholds a Masters in Organization Development and 15 years of experience with events andnetworking in the environmental field. Katrina worked as the Regional Director for Green Festivals in San Francisco and is skilled in facilitation and training in various capacities, from business infrastructure development to sustainability implementation. Katrina also leads seminars for sustainability integratio ...
Who knew that Jane Zawadowski's activist career would start with trash in high school and continue with trash in her 30s? She founded her high school's recycling program, manually filling her family's International Harvester Scout with paper, and dumping it in the Pueblo, Colorado downtown recycling facility. As a mother, years later, she concerns herself with proper disposal of poop and pee in Chicagoland's municipal waste systems. Ms. Zawadowski's formal career has spanned the fields of community organizing, criminal justice, and fair trade advocacy. While a resident of the Chicago Austin ne ...
Tomoi Zeimer is a Japanese mother, artist, filmmaker and anti-nuclear activist. She lives in Harlem, NY with her baby daughter (born just outside of Fukushima) and husband.
Joe Zekas is the founder of YoChicago, a real estate reporting site and platform, as well as a former real estate developer and attorney.
Meryl Zendarski is an attorney who has experience working on conflict resolution, constitutional reform, and development in Liberia, Burma, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Niger. Most recently, Meryl earned Masters of Arts in International Affairs from American University, School of International Service, where she specialized in international politics. For the past two years she has worked as a Consultant focusing on resource sovereignty in the Congo, and she is currently Chairman of the Board for the Maroantsetra Area Development Association (Madagascar) and a board member of ...
Jeff Zimmerman has practiced environmental law for 38 years, first with the U.S. Department of Justice in the Land & Natural Resources Division, later with major companies, and currently in private practice (since 1990). Representing clients in renewable fuels, environmental land use regulation, contaminated site remediation and water law, he currently represents conservancy organizations in the ongoing debate over the environmental risks related to unconventional natural gas development.
Bill Zimmerman is one of the nation's most experienced political consultants. As co-founder of the leading consulting firm Zimmerman & Markman, whose work for ballot initiatives and for organizations such as the ACLU, NRDC, and MoveOn.org has won multiple awards for his political advertising such as the CLIO and the Pollie award. Bill continues to advocate for social justice through his blog at the Huffington Post, and through his practice. Bill holds a PhD from the University of Chicago, and briefly taught there and at Brooklyn College. As an activist in the 60s early 70’s he helped lead t ...
Ryan Zinn is the Fair World Project Campaign Director. Ryan has worked in the food justice movement since 1996 at home and abroad. His work has taken him throughout Latin American while working for the Center for International Law, Friends of the Earth-Paraguay, Global Exchange and the Organic Consumers Association.
Nancy Zook has worked as CCA's art instructor for the past five years. She became the Sustainability Coordinator in the fall of 2012 and now manages the school's urban agriculture program in addition to teaching sculpture, working with Sweetwater Foundation intern, Jason Axt, and supervising school recycling and composting efforts.
Amber Zuckswert is an online and live international pilates and yoga instructor, plant based nutrition lifestyle coach/educator, professional dancer, and raw vegan superfoodie. She runs the largest and most active organic health and rawfood meet up community in her home base of San Francisco, CA. Her website Epicself.com features over 500+ self written articles, how to videos, online store and virtual coaching services. She loves nothing more then transforming people's lives through conscious fitness, eating and lifestyle. Check out all of her virtual programs, and upcoming workshops/all inclu ...
For years, Gary Zukav has conveyed the most complex insights in language all can understand. Over and over, he challenges us to see the depth of our potential in the world and act on that awareness. He is the author of four consecutive New York Times Bestsellers.In 1979, The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics, plumbed the depths of quantum physics and relativity, winning The American Book Award for Science. In 1989, The Seat of the Soul led the way to seeing the alignment of the personality and the soul as the fulfillment of life and captured the imagination of millions, bec ...