Speakers featured at our 2nd Annual Conference - May 14, 2011
Rachelle Carson Begley - Celebrity/Actress and Green Living Expert -featured on “Living With Ed” on Discovery’s Planet Green
Rachelle and Ed have wrapped their third season of their own show “Living With Ed” on Discovery’s Planet Green. It’s about their wonderfully wacky lifestyle that hopefully one day will be more main stream. But, today, it’s still a novelty. They live in a solar powered house, and drive a Prius or Ed’s all electric car around LA. They recycle everything! It’s been an adjustment to live like he does, but she managed to adjust. She has said she feels a little like Eva Gabor in “Green Acres” Over the years, Rachelle has supported many charities, including Water Keepers, Green Wish, anything involving children and Alzheimer’s Disease.
www.rachellecarson.com
ANI PHYO is an Eco-Lifestylist and Raw Food Author creating tantalizingly delicious recipes that lower cholesterol, aide in weight loss, boost the immune system and promote a healthy planet using only seasonal, local, organic, fresh produce coupled with nuts and seeds. Ani is the author of four popular cookbooks: "Ani's Raw Food Asia", "Ani's Raw Food Essentials", "Ani's Raw Food Desserts", and "Ani's Raw Food Kitchen” (awarded "Best Vegetarian Cookbook USA 2007"). The host of "Ani's Raw Food Kitchen Show", the popular “uncooking” show on YouTube, Ani has also appeared on the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, BetterTV with Audra Lowe, ABC San Francisco's View From the Bay, and NBC New York's LX New York. Additionally, Ani has been featured in Food & Wine, Food Network, Oxygen, VegNews, Delicious Living, Vegetarian Times, and Get Fresh magazines. Ani lives in Los Angeles and is currently working on her next book along with planning projects for TV, DVD, and the web. Visit her at: http://www.AniPhyo.com.
Anna Getty has played many roles over the course of her remarkable life: Actress. Fashion maven. Chef. Kundalini yoga teacher. Writer. Mother. Environmental Activist. And now green living and holistic lifestyle expert. But through it all she has maintained a keen sense of self, a grounded perspective and a passion for healthy living, spiritual fulfillment and respect for the environment. She calls this conscious mentality PureStyle Living. As VP of Community Relations and Co-Founder of ecomom, Kimberly wears many hats including managing the ecomom Approved process and our ecomom blog. A mom with over twenty years in the health and sustainability sectors, Kimberly recognized a need for vetted products, information and inspiration, which would support mothers in making healthy choices for their families and thus began ecomom. Kimberly is a popular healthy living expert and media guest with appearances on the TODAY Show, 20/20, View from the Bay, ABC News, CBS News, and keynote presentations at moms groups and conferences around the world including the World Women’s Conference in Seoul, Korea, the North Carolina Women’s Conference, the Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, CA, and the Marketing to Moms conference in Canada. Karen Stewart Brown – Vice President of Design, Stewart+Brown.
Sophie Uliano is the NY Times Best-selling author of Gorgeously Green, 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life and The Gorgeously Green Diet. She is a Green Expert and speaker whose appearances on many television shows, including Oprah, The View, Good Morning America, and The CBS Early Show have inspired women across America to live a Gorgeously Green Life. Sophie’s keynote speeches and workshops guide participants through the eight steps of her best-selling book, Gorgeously Green, showing them simple strategies to transform their lives from gray to green. www.GorgeouslyGreen.com
Sarah Backhouse, anchor for planet 100, a daily news show for Planet Green
Sarah Backhouse was born in the UK and raised in Australia and Japan. A TV host, writer and producer, Sarah has lived in Sydney, London and Los Angeles, where she worked for a diverse array of broadcasters including: CBNC, BBC, PBS, Fine Living, Sci Fi Channel, WOWOW and Discovery.Sarah currently anchors The Planet 100, a daily news show for Planet Green. She also writes and hosts for other green media networks including: The Mother Nature Network, Causecast, Coco Eco Magazine and The G Living Network.
www.sarahbackhouse.com
Anna Getty - PureStyle Living
Izabella Miko - Celebrity/Actress and founder of EkoMiko Foundation
Originally from Poland with a back ground in ballet, Izabella Miko came out to LA just after she turned 18 and from a short and magical series of events landed a much sought after role in "Jerry Bruckheimer's" Coyote Ugly (2000) playing the heart-breaker "Cammie" Izabella's role in the film put her on the fast track in Hollywood not to mention a slew of magazine covers and billboards as well! She followed this debut up with a leading role in J.S. Cardone's The Forsaken (2001) Her latest film, Minimal Knowledge (2002) has been making the film festival rounds in 2002. She also recently wrapped _Shore, The (2003)_ starring along side Lesley Ann Warren and Ben Gazzara. With a deep passion for dance, movement and the spotlight ever in her soul, Izabella starred alongside hugely accomplished actors Derek Jacobi and 'Michael Lonsdale' in the feature film _Bye-Bye Blackbird (2005)_. Her portrayal of Alice, a circus trapeze artist in the early 1900s, was the perfect combination of Izabella's most innate talents. Izabella prepared for this role with a rigorous, three-month, training schedule on both the flying and static trapeze. Utilizing her dance and trapeze skills, along with rapidly learned tightrope walking (which given her skills, wasn't that difficult), she secured a part time role of Raia, a member of the "Circus of Crime" circus troop in the 2011 NBC series "The Cape". www.izabellamiko.com
Tracy DiNunzio is the founder and CEO of RecycledBride.com, the world's largest wedding marketplace. The site promotes resale as a sustainable action, encouraging brides and their friends to buy and sell new and gently used wedding dresses and other wedding items. She also operates RecycledTyke.com and the forthcoming RecycledStyle.com. Tracy is a regular editorial contributor to various publications on the topic of green weddings, and works as a business consultant for sustainable web startups. She loves sharing her expertise in Internet marketing, SEO, media relations and green business with growing companies.
Zhena Muzyka -Tea Mistress, triple bottom line maven and fonder of Zhena's Gypsy tea
As one of the early pioneers of the organic and Fair Trade movement and the founder of Zhena’s Gypsy Tea, Zhena Muzyka believed that by selling tins of tea she could become a purveyor of hope and a conduit for change. Zhena’s company doesn't just market products; it markets meaning, teas with a commitment to social responsibility, sustainability and the well being of others. Zhena’s Gypsy Tea is a community minded, pro-active company and works directly with small growers and out of the way tea gardens and affects change by providing these workers with healthcare, guaranteed maternity leave, childcare, literacy, better working conditions, and autonomy.
Jessica Iclisoy, founder and developer of California Baby® - www.californiababy.com
From its humble, homemade beginnings in Jessica Iclisoy's kitchen, California Baby® has come a long way. The natural skincare line with organic, sustainable ingredients continues to lead the natural baby skin care category in natural and mass markets.
Iclisoy embarked on her entrepreneurial journey after the birth of her first son almost 20 years ago. When she started looking up the ingredients of products she was using on him, she found that many, especially synthetic fragrances, were potential carcinogens. Today, California Baby offers over 50 unique products for hair, skin, bath and sun for babies, children, and sensitive adults, and is sold nationwide at Whole Foods, Target, specialty stores and www.californiababy.com.
Carol Baumgartel - Chief Vision Officer & Co-Founder, American Clay Earth Plaster
Carol uniquely blends life-experiences that have culminated in her belief and commitment to American Clay Earth Plaster. She earned a BFA in Ceramics, making pottery for a number of years. In 1980, she entered the world of Interior Design, with an office in Albuquerque, and later became President of the American Society of Interior Designers, New Mexico chapter (1991-93, again in 2009-10). She specialized in interior finishes for commercial builders, residential builders and architects, putting elements together to highlight the physical aspects of a building – and won various interior awards for model homes in the process.
Jennifer Grayson - www.jennifergrayson.com
Jennifer Grayson is The Huffington Post's green advice columnist (Eco Etiquette) and founding editor of The Red, White, and Green. Inspired by working on the Obama campaign, she launched the site to advance the conversation about the ties between environmentalism and patriotism. Jennifer is also a feature and cover story contributor to leading publications, including American Baby magazine and Healthy Child Healthy World, and has been featured by numerous media outlets and organizations, including MSNBC, WGN, USA Today, Animal Planet, Americablog and WebMD. She has also served as a consultant to CNN and the Sundance Channel.
Carly Harill - Co-Founder of Healthy Bitch Daily and Strategic Partnerships Manager at Healthy Child Healthy World.
A blogger, ghostwriter and publicist, Carly Harrill is the co-founder of HealthyBitchDaily.com and the Strategic Partnerships Manager at Healthy Child Healthy World. After spending nearly a decade in the lifestyle magazine industry, Carly had the quintessential epiphany that managing red carpet events and peddling a product that promoted deforestation and wastefulness, wasn’t really making her feel all warm and fuzzy inside. So after watching Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth—again, typical—and reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, she decided to start researching and digging into issues that plagued our society. It appeared that Big Industry had a lot to hide. From that point forward, Carly dedicated herself to educating the everyday consumer on making small lifestyle changes that are better for our bodies and the earth—both on and off the plate. On her own time, Carly is committed to good causes serving on advisory committees for the Bill Clinton Millennium Network Foundation, Friends Without a Border, Great Chefs of Los Angeles and Sustainable Works. Email her at carly@healthychild.org.
Caroline Howell - www.greenbeanie.net
Caroline Howell founded GreenBeanie™ to formalize the advice she was sharing with friends and family about “green living” including habits and routines that are better for your health, the health of those around you and the planet. The mission of GreenBeanie™ is to help make it easy for families to practice and promote personal and environmental health; this is done through personalized consultations and Green Action Plans, tips and hints on the website and social networks, and recommended products.
Tamara Henry, M.A., Anchor for Metro Motion, Reporter for Santa Monica Channel 16, Host of GreenTwithTamara.TV
"Green T" is the award winning new media host of GreenTwithTamara.TV and is also on TV five times a day for two local news shows that impact environmental health issues in our community. She produces films for the Discovery Network's Military Channel that trigger Congress to pass legislation and most recently had a social cause film on the 2010 Oscar shortlist. Tamara is a former Fox Evening News Anchor who most recently broadcast live from Oscar night on FoxNews.com, asking green questions on the red carpet. She has also starred on Animal Planet, The Tonight Show, Access Hollywood, E!'s Style Network, USA Network, the Miss USA Pageant and her own local spiritual entertainment talk show on Time Warner Cable Los Angeles "IN with Tamara Henry." In 2010 "Green T" helped the Miss America Contestants inspire the nation about green issues with her "Green Is Gorgeous" interactive eco contest. She was a speaker at the Go Green EXPO where she kicked off celebrating 10 years car free and anchors the eco-transpo TV show "Metro Motion" for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority. The award winning GreenTwithTamara.TV team provides $200,000 worth of services and value during its first two years in business (webisode production value $3000 each) and is now ready for a corporate sponsor who would like an interactive presence at green events and brand integration into upcoming webisodes.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tamara-Henry-Green-T/361819961345 
Pam Sterling - Raw Food Chef and Motivational Speaker
Pam will present "Seven Secrets to Extraordinary Success by Sharpening Your Creative Edge."
Abraham Lincoln said that if he had five hours to chop a tree, he would spend four hours sharpening his ax. Women in particular are inherently creative beings and are uniquely equipped to succeed through creativity vs competition. In fact, it is the only way that true and lasting success can occur. In this presentation, Pam shares seven secrets for sharpening your creative edge including - Making a Date with Creativity; Finding the Calm and Stepping into the Impossible.
Pam Sterling is a passionate educator, inspirational speaker, and effective coach. Pam believes we are meant to live with outrageous joy and extreme well-being and works with people to close the gap between the life they are living and the life they'd love to live.
Susan Emmer - Farmacy Agency
Susan is a marketing maven, eco-lifestyle expert and health educator. She is the co-owner of Farmacy Agency, a boutique PR and marketing firm that specializes in helping socially conscious and sustainable companies communicate their unique brand message. Susan is also the Food Feature Editor for HealthyBitchDaily.com, a popular daily blog based on the New York Times bestseller, Skinny Bitch.
Karen co-founded Stewart+Brown, along with her husband Howard Brown, in 2002
and oversees all design and production activities. Prior to Stewart+Brown,
Karen was Sr. Designer at Patagonia and J.Crew. She began her design career
at Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie, designing their most popular collections.
Karen holds a B.F.A. in painting Maryland Institute College of Art. Karen and Stewart+Brown have won many honors and accolades including'Coolest People Now' by Outside Magazine, ³Ones to Watch² by Wired Magazine,³Conscientious Choice² winner by Natural Health magazine, ³Best of Green² by Treehugger, ³World's Most Stylish Ethic Fashion Brand² by Body+Soul magazine, Elle's "Best Green Fashion Brand" and was voted one of the
³World's Top Fashionistas² by Grist.
Alison Suffet Diaz is the Founder and Executive Director of Environmental Charter Schools (ECS). She is responsible for driving strategic development, as well as fundraising, fiscal and capital budget management, and oversight of administrative operations. Alison is leading the organization at a particularly dynamic time. The founding school, Environmental Charter High School is celebrating its ten-year anniversary, while the second school in the network, Environmental Charter Middle School opened in fall 2010. ECS is scheduled to open six more environmentally-themed schools in under-resourced communities in south Los Angeles over the next ten years, ultimately serving 3,000 students in grades K-12. ECS has also developed the Green Ambassador Training Institute to support educators and organizations to replicate the best practices demonstrated at its schools.
Sherry Simpson Dean
Executive director of the United Nations Pasadena/Foothills and producer - is well known for her deep commitment to human rights and civil liberties. Her latest film, Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony, is a multiple award winner at Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival, having achieved the dual distinction of the Audience Award and the Freedom of Expression Award at the 2002 festival.
Since 1987, DeAna Vitela has been actively involved in the research, development, & application of non-pathogenic microorganisms for degradation of pollutants. Her specialty is waste water remediation and odor control using Bioremediation, Phyotoremediation, and Biomimicry. As CEO and partner of AquaBio Environmental Technologies, Inc. & AquaBio Urban Waste Water & Management Division, Ms. Vitela has continued this process in pollution mitigation. Ms. Vitela has consulted & provided her expertise, for environmental, engineering, & remediation firms, municipal & industrial facilities, waste treatment facilities, confined animal feed operations, landfill, compost, & greenwaste facilities as well as stormwater retention basins, lakes, & aqua culture facilities, in both fresh & marine environments. Kelly Layne – Marketing Director Whole Foods, Venice Kelly launched her marketing career in Spain doing grass-roots/guerilla marketing for a scuba-diving company in 2002. Upon migrating back to Colorado 2 years later, she handled marketing efforts for the 6 locations of a Denver restaurant company. Through her marketing efforts & networking, Kelly developed a rapport in the community, leading other restaurants & companies to reach out to her for grass-roots marketing services. Layne Avenue Marketing was developed & Ms. Layne worked as a Marketing Consultant for a variety of hospitality-based clients before relocating to Los Angeles in 2007. Her career with Whole Foods Market began in West Los Angeles in March of 2008 at the National & Barrington location. 1 year later she moved up to the big town of Santa Monica on 22nd & Wilshire. She now is marketing manager for the top store in the region, the always bustling Venice store at Rose & Lincoln. Kelly has been marketing for Whole Foods Market for exactly 3 years & enjoys the diversity of the position, including customer events, graphic design oversight, community outreach & donation management. She is very proud of some of the programs she has implemented including “Local’s Night” for the Venice Art Crawl, Supper Clubs, & the “Joyful Activist Volunteer Club”. In her spare time, she likes to play outside in this beautiful land of So Cal! Stephanie Alterna.tif Design - Founder / Art Director After earning her BFA in graphic design from Chapman University, Stephanie Witherspoon nabbed a coveted position with the highly esteemed Chase Design Group. There, she acted as lead designer for a number of projects for Mattel and the Cartoon Network—work that was publicly recognized by Print magazine. Witherspoon soon moved on to Gel Communications, where she designed for clients such as Disney, Kellog’s, Paramount, Warner Bros., and Cranium. In 2008, Witherspoon formed Alterna.tif Design, a boutique design studio specializing in branding, print, packaging, and web design.” Siel Ju is an environmental writer and frequent speaker on green living and social media. She's the founder and author of green LA girl, a contributing editor at BlogHer.com, and a lifestyle blogger for mnn.com.She's been interviewed and recognized as an environmental lifestyle expert on NPR’s Weekend Edition, SELF, GOOD, Sacramento News & Review, SFGate, KoreAm, and many other media outlets. Siel holds a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and live in Santa Monica, Calif.
Susan Neisloss - www.workingforgreen.com
Susan founded Working For Green in 2008 based on her desire to help people improve their economic situation through innovations and meaningful work in the green arena. Using her expertise as a former TV reporter and producer, combined with jobs in the public relations and corporate arenas, Susan brings a unique perspective to telling entertaining, emotionally compelling and educational stories about “ordinary” individuals whose ideas and success are benefiting themselves and their community.
Alexandra Spunt- co-author of No More Dirty Looks: The Truth About Your Beauty Products and the Ultimate Guide to Safe and Clean Cosmetics.
A Natural beauty expert and consultant Alexandra is a freelance journalist and marketing consultant in Los Angeles. She previously headed up the branding team at American Apparel where she helped develop the advertising campaign and was a company spokesperson. Before that she worked as a modeling agent for NEXT and, while in college, as a television host.
DeAna Vitela-Hayashi | Director AquaBio Environmental Technologies, Inc.
www.aquabio.us
Siel Ju – www.greenLAgirl.com
Eco-living expert and Holistic nutritionist Rachel Avalon, shares her top 10 tips on how to reduce your carbon foot print at this year's Women of the Green Generation Conference.
1) BYOBC - bring your own beverage container (stainless steel or glass is highly recommended as a healthier more sustainable alternative to plastic).
Libre tea is offering all WOTGG fans a special discount - $5 off the LARGE Libre tea glass - just enter "Libre Love" in code box at check out www.libretea.com
2) BYON - bring your own nametag. Hang on to a reusable lanyard and use it at each event. You can even customize your own text, making it as effective as possible with your name, title, and website.
3) BYORB - bring your own reusable bag(s) for gift shopping. These can also be useful for events where promotional materials and samples are given. www.chicobag.com
4) BYOU - bring your own utensils and/or cloth napkin. Check out lightweight To-Go Ware utensils, which are also a great substitute for take-out plastic utensils and throwaway chopsticks. www.to-goware.com
5) Carpool, use public transportation, or walk.
6) Wear some eco fashion: vintage, clothes swap items, thrift store finds, and/or sustainable fabrics such as organic cotton or hemp. When someone compliments you on your attractive attire you can share how it's eco. Items to consider: shirt, blazer, slacks, belt, accessories, handbag, shoes, etc.
7) Take pictures of other people's business cards when networking instead of taking them with you. There are apps that will even organize the info so you can store it easily in your contacts.
8) Consider offering a promo exclusively for the event. The more people who love and share your eco services and/or products, the more we are strengthening the sustainability movement.
9) When taking notes about any presentations, go digital or use a sustainable paper notebook (most office supplies stores carry them).
10) Share this list with other people and events via email, websites, facebook, and other social media platform. Be sure to credit the author. www.rachelavalon.com
BONUS IDEAS: Bring a solar powered phone and/or computer charger as needed. Whenever printing business cards and materials choose sustainable printing methods.
www.GreenSquareGraphics.com
