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Cohen is the senior project developer and greening expert at Ameresco, where she specializes in renewable energy and energy conservation project development.

Rich Cohen is the Founder and CEO of Distant Village, a sustainable packaging and design company. His company is recognized as a sustainable pioneer and innovator. Awards include 2011 Most Innovative Sustainable Program and 2010 Best Eco-CSR Program. Distant Village has established an international reputation for authenticity in sustainability since 2000. The company is based in Chicago with operations in Philippines, UK, and France. Mr. Cohen has held leadership positions in sustainability, international business development & strategy, innovation and technology strategy within small bus ...

Dianna Cohen is Creative Director & co-founder of Plastic Pollution Coalition, a global alliance of individuals, organizations and businesses working together to stop plastic pollution and its toxic impacts on humans, animals and the environment.Los Angeles-based multi-media visual artist, painter and curator Cohen is best known for her two-dimensional and three-dimensional works using recycled plastic bags – sewn together – ranging from small hanging pieces to room-sized installations. http://plasticpollutioncoalition.org/ http://www.diannacohen.com/

Matthew has been immersed in sacred body-mind disciplines for over 30 years. At a young age he discovered the great benefits of yoga; finding breath, balance, strength and focus in poses helped him calm his busy mind. Over the years Matthew studied many styles of yoga and became a certified yoga teacher eventually developing his style of Sacred Energy Arts. At age 12 he started martial arts training and eventually earned a rank of 5th degree black belt in Shaolin Kung Fu. He has attained the title of Guru of Kun Tao Silat under the masterful Willem de Thouares. Matthew also has advanced train ...

Sean Coker is the cofounder of Beneficial Biologics, a northern California based company dedicated to sustainable farming and living practices. His focus is on biological research with an emphasis on understanding natural systems and solutions inherent within the dynamics of existing ecological systems. While growing up Sean watched the family farm in rural South Carolina fail along with the local heritage due to unsustainable farming techniques. This ultimately led his journey into a passion for efficient, economical, and environmentallysound methods of food production and soil management. Th ...

Steve Coleman is the cofounder and director of Washington Parks ; People, DC's awardwinning grassroots alliance of community park partnerships. Parks ; People has dramatically transformed once crimeridden innercity DC parks from Meridian Hill/Malcolm X to Marvin Gaye Park, galvanizing tens of thousands of people to rebuild green communities in the heart of the city. In the process, Parks ; People has advanced a new approach to handson civic environmental action that is now being used to help advance the Cool Capital Challenge, the DC region's model onebillionpound carbon dioxide diet. Driven b ...

A cum laude graduate of Princeton University, Coleman is founder andpresident of Sisterhood Agenda. Her research has covered racialidentity, selfesteem, and stigmatization.

For Rob, design is about communication, not random decoration. Rob applies his 20 years of experience in strategic communication, branding, naming and copywriting to provide his clients with solutions that speak their messages with a clear and effective voice. This approach has led him to awards for his work from the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Advertising Club of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Has also also been published in the prestigious design annuals, Graphis Poster and Graphis Logo Design 7. Rob’s work has also been accepted into the permanent design collections of the U ...

Tony Coleman, founder of One Fam and Bikes 4 Life, is a long-time Bay Area activist committed to helping rehabilitate at-risk and incarcerated youth. Born in the Bay Area. Coleman is a co-founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, spearheaded the Third Eye Movement, and worked for American Friends Service Committee. Coleman’s passion for struggling communities is a result of being raised by a single mom in of one of the Bay’s grittiest neighborhoods, the notorious Tenderloin District. He understands well the perils of dysfunctional families, a lack of positive adult role models and ...

At Ford, Jon works with Ford's fleet customers to develop sustainable solutions to their specific needs through the use of technology, fleet optimization and understanding driver behavior. Jon has been involved with sustainability at Ford for more than 10 years and has represented Ford at venues ranging from the United Nations to the Academy of Management to TED and other thought-leading conferences. His passion for sustainability is evident in his research focusing on how large organizations engage in sustainable behavior and how that decision making process can be embedded in the organizat ...

Colvin is the founder of Maternal Organic Methods, which certifiesproducts that are prepared completely chemicalfree with no synthetic,natural gas, or petroleumbased ingredients.

A former journalist and Emmyaward nominated editor at CBSTV, Senator Collins has used her journalism experience and communication skills to support progressive agendas that seek to create economic and social welfare policies that reduce inequality, expand opportunities and strengthen communities.As chairperson of the Senate Financial Institutions Committee, some of her major legislative accomplishments include the Mortgage Rescue Fraud Act; the landmark Sudan Divestment Act to End Atrocities and Terrorism in the Sudan; and the Payday Loan Reform Act. For her work on regulating the payday loan ...

Tanyette Colon is an activist who has championed those opposing fracking and the Minisink Compressor Station.

The mission of the Fashion Studies Department at Columbia College Chicago is to provide a comprehensive, integrated education designed to support a wide range of career opportunities in fashion. The curriculum encompasses a broad range of practical, aesthetic, and intellectual skills, devised to anticipate and incorporate the ongoing changes synonymous with the dynamic nature of the international fashion industry. Our faculty is comprised of industry professionals, artists, and scholars who are active practitioners in their field of expertise and share their wealth of real-world experiences in ...

Stephen Commins teaches courses in regional and international development, and the role of Non-Governmental Organizations, at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. His current courses focus on urbanization in developing countries, NGOs and disaster management. Commins directed the Development Institute at the UCLA African Studies Center in the 1980s, and then worked as Director of Policy and Planning at World Vision International in the 1990s. He was Senior Human Development Specialist at the World Bank from 1999-2005 and managed several initiatives on service delivery in post-conflict cou ...

Richard Conlin was first elected to the Seattle City Council in November 1997 after many years of public service with Seattle-based community organizations. In 2007, the Council elected Richard to serve as Council President for the first of two two-year terms, the second of which will continue to the end of 2011. Over the past 12 years, Richard has focused on making Seattle a more sustainable city, reducing waste, strengthening neighborhoods, improving pedestrian mobility and transportation infrastructure, and making government more transparent. Prior to being elected as a Seattle City Council ...

Justin Conway is the Relationship Officer at Calvert Foundation, a nonprofit provider of innovative financial products and services that channel affordable capital to underserved communities and markets. Before joining Calvert Foundation, Justin managed the Community Investing Program of Coop America, where he currently serves on the Board of Directors, and the Social Investment Forum, where he was instrumental in helping grow the overall demand for community investing.

Conwell is a Fair Trade advocate at Global Exchange working on the Fair Trade Chocolate Campaign. The Fair Trade Chocolate Campaign fights poverty, child labor and environmental destruction by encouraging major chocolate companies to buy only Fair Trade cocoa and individuals to only buy only Fair Trade chocolate. Conwell has extensive experience volunteering longterm on the ground throughout Latin America and has seen the devastating effects of a free trade economy on Third World countries. Conwell is studying at the University of San Francisco and is currently working on writing lessons to t ...

Jimmy Cooney, once an employeeowner at the University of Maryland's veganfriendly Food CoOp, is the general manager and one of three chefs who designed the eclectic menu at Caf

Mary Cordaro, president and founder of Mary Cordaro Inc, is a healthy building consultant and Certified Bau-Biologist. Since 1989, Mary has been helping parents concerned about or sensitive to conventional building and interior materials and systems. Her collaborative approach is unique, synthesizing the fields of German Bau-Biologie and American building science. Together with a group of world class, highly specialized experts from the U.S., Germany and Switzerland, Mary and her team consult on all aspects of new construction, remodeling and energy efficiency, as well as testing and remediati ...

Christine Cordero is the Bridging Environmental Health and Justice Program Director of the Center for Environmental Health (CEH). For the past six and a half years with CEH, Christine has led CEH's work to connect environmental health issues to communities most directly impacted by toxic exposures. Christine works in partnership with community-based organizations and coalitions to create synergy between the environmental health and justice movements. She is proud to serve on the boards of the Filipino/American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity (FACES), Worksafe, and the Stanford Asian ...

Since 2004, under Jose Corona’s leadership as CEO of Inner City Advisor over $10 million of total pro bono investments and the creation of thousands of jobs has been generated. In 2011, these combined investments supported the creation of 2,445 good jobs, 60% are held by women, 68% are minority-held with the generation of $111 million in wages for local residents of the San Francisco Bay Area. Raised by a family of successful farming entrepreneurs, Jose knows by practical experience of how growing businesses has the power to transform communities. Jose serves as vice chairman of the Board ...

Anthony Corso is a Sustainable Design Consultant at OWP/P Architects where he serves as a member of the US Green Building Councils Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Core and Shell Review Team, as a LEED Consultant for public and private clients, and as the manager for the City of Chicagos Chicago Green Homes Program.Prior to OWP/P, Anthony worked as an Urban Designer with Conservation Design Forum (CDF), a multidisciplinary ecologicallyfocused design studio. At CDF he worked on green urban design and community planning projects throughout the United States. Anthony has als ...

Costa is a nationally recognized sustainable food and farming advocate. Her recent book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat is the culmination of the past seven years she has spent working to promote a more vibrant local food economy in California and beyond. In addition to the book, Costa has written for numerous publications on hotbutton issues such as Farm to School, eating locally, food safety, and how to create regional food systems. Costa's previous role as statewide director of California's Buy Fresh Buy Local campaign, and other positions held with Community Alliance with Famil ...

Tradd Cotter, founder of Mushroom Mountain in Liberty, South Carolina, has been studying the art of identifying and cultivating mushrooms for over 15 years in the Southeast. An increased understanding in mycology, the study of fungi, has created a wealth of opportunities for humans to explore many aspects of planetary healing. Tradd's foundation in cultivation has evolved into a widespectrum of applications for bioremediation, perpetual food systems, natural pesticides, and recycling strategies to improve the local and global quality of life not just for humans, but for all the organisms with ...

Jeanine Cotter,Esq. is a founder of San Francisco solar installer Luminalt andis itsPresident and CEO. She is one of few women running a solarconstruction company.Jeanine holds Luminalt’s C-46 solar contractors license and is a Certified Green Building Professional. She and her colleagues grew Luminalt without outside investors to become the leading solar contractor in San Franciscohaving builtmore solar installationsin the City by the Bay than any other company. She is a passionateadvocate for local renewable energy, creation of green collar jobs and sustainable business practices. ...

Founder of Sistahs of the Good Birth, an African American Birth ; Wellness Collective, CotterNorwood is a doula, ayurvedic practitioner, and a homeschooling, homebirth after cesarean (HBAC), mother of three wonderful children.

Cousins teaches environmental politics at Western Washington University. He focuses his research efforts on the politics and economics of striving toward equitable and sustainable societies.

Certified Remodeler (CR) Certified Kitchen and Bath Remodeler (CKBR) through NARI Licensed electrical contractor (1998-Current) Licensed general contractor in Highland Park, Evanston, and Chicago (1995/96-Current) Certified Pella Installer, Certified Generac Installer Time in Remodeling/Construction Business: 20 years Hobbies/Interests: Family time, cars, motorcycles, and fixing things Green Certified Professional GCP

Michael Cox serves as the Managing Director of HUB Cities at HUB Bay Area, a business unit that establishes strategic partnerships and invests in the roll-out of the HUB community platform across North America. Moreover, he works with multiple clients in the impact investing space, engaging in risk capital investing and public policy formation to align the economy with the common good. While a student, he co-founded the California Student Sustainability Coalition (CSSC), which catalyzed the University of California Policy on Sustainable Practices, generating immense economic impact in clean en ...

Namaste Solar's Lauren Coyne is coowner and leads education ; community outreach.She joined the company in2007 with seven years of teaching and advocacy experience in Colorado andCalifornia. Working as a Field Representative for a State Assemblymember duringthe California energy crisis, Lauren learned firsthand that renewable energyis a key solution for our energy future, our environment, and our economy.Lauren returned home to Colorado in 2003. Recently, she spent two yearsteaching sixth grade at Kent Denver School in Englewood and two years teachingmiddle school English at St. Annes Episcopa ...

Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen are the authors of The Urban Homestead (Expanded and Revised Edition): Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (2008) and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World (2011), and founded the blog, RootSimple, which was formerly known as Homegrown Evolution, in 2006. They live in the heart of Los Angeles, in a little bungalow set on a 1/12 acre lot where almost all of their land is devoted to growing edible or otherwise useful plants and trees. Their obsessions include bees, bikes, beer, chickens, dogs, healthy cities, healing herbs, si ...

Emma Cramp is an up and coming singer/songwriter and writes all her own material, sings and plays guitar. With her roots planted everywhere from the countryside of England to the deserts of Saudi Arabia, Emma has found L.A. to be her home time and time again and currently lives amongst the trees of Topanga Canyon. She refers to her sound as 'Meadow Mountain Folk Rock' and draws inspiration from love, life and all that lies between.

Mae Crawford is CEO/president of Capitol Property Development LLC, which started as a home improvement contracting firm that specializes in historic preservation and later incorporated green restoration and small construction projects. Her firm has currently created 2 new divisions, which are geared to Construction and Safety Education; and another that focused on Civil Engineering. Lisa Mae also is president of a consulting business, Capitol Business Solutions LLC, which focus is on Green Business Development, Education and Training, and Energy Solutions. Lisa Mae has been supporting green ...

Danielle Cresswell is the Sustainability Officer for Klean Kanteen, where she defines company goals through socio-cultural and environmental lens, to support associated strategy development and implementation from an operational platform. She also supports a company-wide hearts and minds commitment to the company’s mission. She manages materials safety testing for all existing and new products, works closely with external partners, and is deeply engaged in developing the company’s sourcing position and its implementation through the Klean Kanteen Manufacturer/Supplier Code of Conduct. Cr ...

Crittenden is the outreach director for the Washington Bus. The Bus engages, educates and mobilizes young people in the political process. They also have killer Tshirts! Crittenden works with individuals and organizations across Washington to build young people's political power. When not riding the Bus (yes, they actually have a bus) from Walla Walla to Washougal, you can find him compulsively checking blogs for uptothesecond breaking news.

John Crooks is a junior at CCA Academy. He enjoys engineering and technology.

Crosby works extensively to strengthen our regional food system. Crosby is the Director of Slow Money NW that connects investors interested in food and farming with the food and farming businesses in need of investment. Crosby is also the Network Coordinator for the Puget Sound Food Network, a project of the Northwest Agriculture Business Center that is focused on increasing the production, distribution, and consumption of regional food in regional markets. Crosby has also been active in the development of the Washington Good Food Coalition that brings various issuebased organizations tog ...

Wade Crowfoot works for Governor Jerry Brown as the Deputy Director of the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research. In that role, he helps advance California’s ambitious renewable energy and climate goals. Prior to his current work, Wade served as San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s environmental advisor and as Regional Director of the Environmental Defense Fund.

Hannah Crum is the creator of Kombucha Kamp and has mentored 1000's of homebrewers around the world. She has been featured as The Kombucha Mamma on the Veria Network, Freestone Fermentation Festival & Eat Real as well as Whole Life Times Magazine, LA Times Best Bets, Vital Juice and many more.

Cris Cruz is a Bayfriendly qualified landscape and garden consultant based in Oakland, CA. She's worked with the Dig Cooperative on several pilot, youthoriented, green job projects in East Oakland, including Best of the Bay winner, East Oakland Boxing Association (EOBA). Here, with Dig Cooperative, she developed a plant palette that created a foundation for EOBA's current status as a Certified Wildlife Habitat. Cruz strives to incorporate opportunities for native plants, information exchange, wildlife habitat, physical activity, soil food web building, recycling/reuse, and biodiversity in a ...

Kay Cuajunco is an organizer and popular educator passionate about building a more inclusive and intergenerational movement bridging food justice and farmworker justice. Last summer she rode with Live Real on the Food and Freedom Rides filming interviews with farmers, workers, and communities to investigate how people on the frontlines of the industrial food system are surviving its dark side and thriving in the light of their own alternatives. Currently she sits on the advisory board of Bay Localize, where she helped promote urban agriculture in Oakland, and serves on the national steering co ...

Marco Antonio Cuba was born in La Paz, Bolivia, he grew up and studied at the same city. He received a BA in Systems Engineering and BA in Economics and Finance from the Universidad Mayor de San Andres. During his career he did many courses in Foreign Trade and gained extensive experience in handling the Balanced Scorecard, Electronic Commerce and he is an expert in Administrative Processes, providing to the businesses where he worked greater efficiency and productivity. The unfair distribution of wealth and social inequality in Bolivia, sparked his interest to participate in the National Deve ...

Jen Cullerton Johnson's nonfiction children's book Seeds of Change demonstrates the connection between people and nature. A frank and inspiring invitation into the life and work of Wangai Maathai, Noble Peace Prize Winner and founder of the Greenbelt Movement. For each book bought Jen gives a percentage to help the environment. For each school visit, or workshop, participants plant one tree in solidarity of saving the earth.Jen Cullerton Johnson has published fiction and creative nonfiction in literary journals and magazines. She has led writing workshops for high school students, elementary c ...

Culman is a USGBCcertified architect providing integrated design, planning and facilitation for green and sustainable projects through his firm, Solutions. He is also a founding member of the Business Council on Climate Change and board member for the Global Citizen Center.

Anna and her husband Marcus Eriksen co-founded the 5 Gyres Institute, researching and communicating plastic marine pollution in the world’s oceans. After documenting plastic pollution in all 5 oceanic gyres, they are focused on engaging the public in solutions to plastic waste. Anna has over 14 years of experience with environmental non-profits, working in marine conservation, coastal watershed management and sustainability education.She received her Masters in International Environmental Policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Finn Cunningham is an artist, writer, gardener and early childhood educator. She has taught workshops through the Institute of Urban Homesteading, led youth in educational farm activities at Pie Ranch and was Garden Educator at Growing Home Community Garden. Finn is also co-founder of Source Press, a collective dedicated to dispensing inspiration, information and resources outside of institutional frameworks and consumer relationships. Finn is currently on the team of the Free Farm, an all volunteer-run, urban farm founded in January 2010 on a 1/3 acre lot on the corner of Gough and Eddy Stree ...

Vince has a degree in Environmental Design from the University of Colorado in Boulder. (Thats at least 3 green points)After graduating from C.U. he worked in the engineering and land planning field before striking out to perform comedy fulltime. He worked as a standup comedian, improv artist and actor for 25 years, from Florida to Alaska and three tours overseas for U.S. troops.Vince found his professional and philosophical home with Pedros Planet, a greenoriented office supplier that provides free recycling services and can turn any office into a green office...and he still works as a comedia ...

Celia Curtis is the Manager of Public Programs at Denver Botanic Gardens. She is also an avid gardener and urban homesteader with a busy kitchen garden, a chicken coop and dreams of adding goats, a solar greenhouse and more someday. She keeps chickens for eggs, entertainment, and to help with weeding and pest control in her garden.

Cyril is the founder and executive director of the Center for Media Justice in Oakland, CA, a national media strategy and action center building a powerful grassroots movement for racial and economic justice through media change. Key projects include the Media Justice MovementBuilding Initiative, the Justice Communications Initiative, as well as training and tools to help grassroots organizers and leaders become better strategic storytellers and media activists.Cyrils history as a media and movement strategist is informed by her organizing and communications work at We Interrupt This Message a ...