A great list of events care of Sustainlane: Natural Products Expo West The largest trade show about natural and organic products. Over 2,800 exhibitors showcase new products, and cutting-edge trends. Watch engaging speakers, and attend informative seminars amidst endless networking opportunities. March 14 – 16 Anaheim, CA expowest.com Down 2 Earth D2E is Boston’s sustainable […]
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Event: SF Green
From Room Full of People, producers of the SF Beta events announces a new one: MARCH 4: SF Green SF Green is San Francisco’s premier mixer on green technology, organized with Steve Newcomb, former founder of Powerset. Think of it as an SF Beta with bonus carbon offsets. We’ll be featuring demos from a number […]
Cleantech Funding
Ahead of next weeks Cleantech Forum in San Francisco cleantech.com’s David Ehrlich reports on recent cleantech funding deals: LED and solar power companies pick up some cash, along with deals for waste treatment, lithium ion batteries and wind power. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Ausra, Tel Aviv’s Pythagoras Solar and Cool Earth Solar in Livermore, Calif., all […]
Maude Barlow Speaks on the Global Water Crisis – Wednesday Night
Maude Barlow, internationally renowned water activist, author, and National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians, Canada’s largest citizens’ advocacy group speaks on Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley in Berkeley, CA. The event will be presented by Jerry Mander, […]
Planetwork Conference – The unMoney Convergence April 14-16
Planetwork “brings a collaborative systems view rooted in conscious evolution to sustainability & technology.” What does that mean? Well for me it meant meeting up with some of the most interesting people I know. And in April, following Green Festival in Seattle, the Planetwork folks are staging their first conference for a while: The unMoney […]
For Your Calendar: Slow Food Nation
As a kid I tended a sizable vegetable garden. I don’t know what inspired me (a suburban kid) to till the backyard soil at age 10. But I loved the work and the joy of fresh, local food stuck with me. It was also the beginning of my entrepreneurial life as I sold produce to […]
Don’t Have $6k For A Ticket To TED? Watch Past Presentations Online
One of the hottest event tickets of the year is the annual TED Conference held in Monterey. From its roots in technology, entertainment and design, the content has expanded to include science, business, the arts and the global issues facing our world. Over four days, 50 speakers each take an 18-minute slot, and there are […]
February Events
 Here are some events to get you (me!) out from behind the computer: Boston – Feb 2-3 – Going Green Expo Pasadena – Feb 5-7 – The Art Center Summit: Systems, Cities & Sustainable Mobility San Francisco – Feb 8-9 – Engineers for a Sustainable World San Francisco – Feb 25-27 – Cleantech Forum […]
Bill McDonough at AlwaysOn Green
 In case you missed Bill speaking at AlwaysOn’s GoingGreen conference last year (and at $3k per seat, you probably did!), here are some excerpts from his “strategy of hope†for sustainable design keynote. http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/2282 http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/22932
Tipping Point? Two Evening Events Start The Year Green
 While they typically talk bits and bytes, hardware and software, these Silicon Valley institutions have decided to start the year out with green themes: Commonwealth Club in conjunction with Computer History Museum start out the year with: IT’S EASY BEING GREEN | WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23 http://www.commonwealthclub.org/sv/ (sorry…no direct event link…) and Tuesday, January 29th […]