Climate Savers Computing Initiative launched their new website for Earth Day 2008.

Started by Google and Intel in 2007, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative is a nonprofit group of eco-conscious consumers, businesses and conservation organizations. The Initiative was started in the spirit of WWF’s Climate Savers program which has mobilized over a dozen companies since 1999 to cut carbon dioxide emissions, demonstrating that reducing emissions is good business.

Their mission is to reduce global CO2 emissions from the operation of computers by 54 million tons per year by 2010. Visit www.climatesaverscomputing.org

Global Citizen Center relaunched their website promoting a large mixed-use LEED-certified building that will include green retail, office space for nonprofits and socially responsible companies.

The Global Citizen Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate the public about our need to engage in new economic practices — as consumers, businesses, and communities — that are environmentally sustainable and socially just. These principles are embodied in the Green Economy.

Check out www.globalcitizencenter.org

Clean Technologies Driving the Green Economy

What is clean tech and how does it fit in with ecological and sustainable principles? From biofuels to utility development based on nature’s own systems, clean technologies and the engines that fund them are diverse and far-reaching. The panel was focussed on innovative green technologies from local visionaries whose work is changing the face of technology as we know it around the world.

Green 2.0: Delivering Green to Mainstream

On November 1, 2007, Joey spoke at the Green Drinks event sponsored by the North Bay Sustainable Business Alliance.  His talk was about how to leverage the power internet to market to the Green Consumer.  Topics included:

• Who is the Bright Green Consumer?
• How to position Green for the Mainstream
• Why Green Consumers love the internet
• Case Studies in how businesses are using the internet to connect with the Green Consumer
• Online strategies for small green business

About Green Drinks

"Every month people who work in the environmental field meet up for a beer at informal sessions known as Green Drinks.

We have a lively mixture of people from NGOs, academia, government and business. Come along and you'll be made welcome. Just say, "are you green?" and we will look after you and introduce you to whoever is there.It's a great way of catching up with people you know and also for making new contacts. Everyone invites someone else along, so there’s always a different crowd, making Green Drinks an organic, self-organising network.

These events are very simple and unstructured, but many people have found employment, made friends, developed new ideas, done deals and had moments of serendipity. It's a force for the good and we'd like to help it spread to other cities. Contact your local node to get the latest info about coming along."

GreenDrinks.org

Sustainable Fairfax relaunched their site with a new logo, design and integration of Earthsite's content management system.

Sustainable Fairfax is a nonprofit educational organization providing the infrastructure for all age groups in our community to work together to regenerate and preserve the social, economic and environmental well-being of Fairfax and its’ sphere of influence.

Learn more about one of the first groups in Marin County, CA to pioneer sustainability, with a legacy of educating the town council, supporting the community, and conducting educational events since 1999. Check out www.sustainablefairfax.org

Integral Partnerships relaunched their site with a new design, blog, and more information on their services.

Founders Dixon de Leña and Paul H. Ray created Integral Partnerships in 1999 from their unequivocal commitment to help to integrate Business, Planet and Society. Integral Partnerships' mission is to assist business, political organizations, and civil society in the most urgent need of our time -- to generate significant velocity towards building a wiser, ultimately sustainable, and resilient future for our Planet through visionary action.

Learn more about how they help their clients to integrate business, planet and society. www.integralpartnerships.com

How Web 2.0 is Empowering Sustainable Business

Web 2.0 is about collaboration, sharing, and accessibility. How is this online revolution empowering Sustainable Business? Participants learned how start-ups and big businesses alike are using the power of the Web to improve their bottom lines while addressing environmental and social justice issues. He gave demonstrations of cutting-edge, near-free software that can easily be integrated into your organization to increase collaboration while lowering your organization's impact on the environment.

Read more at Sustainable Enterprise 2007

Roots of Change relaunched their website with a new, more engaging design, and more features to keep visitors involved.

In 1999, a group of California-based foundations came together to explore the challenges facing the current industrialized food system and to discover a means to maximize the impact of their investments in pursuit of a healthier system. In 2000, they commissioned and released Roots of Change: Agriculture, Ecology, and Health in California, a report that consolidated information from policy makers, farmers, scientists, and activists, as well as data from numerous state agencies. The report made the case that multiple environmental, social, and economic problems in California can be addressed simultaneously by a comprehensive transition to a sustainable food system.

Learn more about ROC's efforts to establish a sustainable food system in California at www.rocfund.org.

Decision Making 2.0: How Information Technology Can Help us Make Decisions Friendly to Planet, People and Profits

Do you know the environmental impact of that steak you bought at Whole Foods? Do you have any idea how much electricity your PC is using when you leave it on all night? Should you tell the grocery clerk plastic or paper? What if your cellphone could tell you the greener choice in each case? This session focussed on the decisions we make on a daily basis, either as consumers or as employees, and how IT solutions can inform those decisions. Given the right information, at the right time, in the right format, you’ll make decisions that are more socially and/or environmentally friendly.

Net Impact Professional Summit

Business and Technology Panel