Natural Products Expo West is the world's largest and premier tradeshow for the natural, organic and healthy products industry. Since 1981, Natural Products Expo West has been the leading independent voice and industry event. In 2012, Natural Products Expo West hosted over 60,000 industry members and over 3,000 exhibits showcasing products in the categories of natural and specialty foods, organic, supplements, health and beauty, natural living and pet products. Nowhere else can you get your products in front of so many buyers within the natural and organic products industry.

This year, Earthsite founder Joey Shepp attended the event to meet with clients and check in on the latest trends in Natural Foods.

Earthsite clients in attendance included:

• Wallaby Yogurt (Just launched non-fat Greek Yogurt!)
• Rumiano Cheese (Organic and Non-GMO Cheese)
• WholeSoy Yogurt (Premium Vegan Yogurt Alternative)
• Emile Noel (Gourmet Seed, Nut and Olive Oils)

Trends for 2013 include:

• Non-GMO (Thanks to Whole Foods for leading where politics failed)
• Grass-Fed (Organic Valley "Grass Mlik")
• Gluten Free (Waiting for products to move beyond just Rice flour, leader is still Udi's, but we expect competition to heat up)
• Coconut Water (So much competition without much differentiation)
• Super Foods (Still elite and expensive)
• Probiotics (Moving beyond yogurt to beverages and snacks)

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On Friday, September 7, 2012 Raceway Sonoma (formally Infineon Raceway) will be hosting their second annual Accelerating Sustainable Performance Summit.  

Earthsite's Founder, Joey Shepp, worked as a consultant with the raceway and a group of students from the Dominican University of California's Green MBA program to develop a Sustainable Performance Metric System. This new rating system combines the factors most closely associated with both sustainability and performance into a single comparative metric of vehicles available in the current market.

Joey Shepp will be presenting the Sustainable Performance Metric System at the summit followed by a panel discussion.  He will also me moderating a second panel titled The State of Sustainable Racing 2012.

The event will be begin at 9 am PST and can be viewed live here!

Click here for a complete schedule

Earthsite has been a proud member of the San Francisco Green Chamber of Commerce for over three years.  Earthsite's Co-founder, Stacie Shepp, served on the board of the Green Chamber for a year before serving as the 2011 Interim Executive Director.

The Green Chamber of Commerce will be hosting their 4th Annual Celebration this month.  This year's event, Back to Basics, Black & White Gala looks like it will be a incredible event that you won't want to miss!

Date:  
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Location:
EEFG, Inc. Headquarters, 657 Mission Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94105

Time: 
7pm – 10pm (VIP Cocktail Hour 6pm – 7pm)

This past weekend we had a chance to spend the day at the 7th Annual Maker Faire event in San Mateo, CA.  The event is put on by Make magazine, a magazine dedicated to the do-it-yourself community.  The event was chock full of intventors and entrepreneurs who are using mostly reused resources to build everything from robots to bamboo bikes.  

This year there was a Homegrown Village that featured an array of sustainability projects.  We saw snails, compost, bees and even got to try some probiotic soda.  

This is a great event for the whole family with lots of hands on projects for kids and robots of course. We even spotted Wall-E at one point!

Some tips for getting there: carpool or take public transportation, get there early and be prepared to wait in some lines as the parking lots fill up quickly!  

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