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GreenWave
Instilling Consciousness in the Corporate Community

Building on their long-standing leadership in sustainability, Donna Rogers of the Fairmont Hotels & Resorts retained GreenWave Strategies to develop a major eco-focused event “Our Planet, Under Covers” for their top corporate clients, held at the Fairmont’s San Francisco hotel. The event doubled the previous year’s attendance and established Fairmont’s green credibility with the audience of conference and event planners. The evening focused on how to go green and still provide excellence, sophistication and beauty in event planning (one of the top producers of waste and pollution).

Influential experts for the formal presentations and panel discussion worked with the event production company to embed the theme in all aspects of the event. Speakers included Betsy Rosenberg, the host and producer of the radio show EcoTalk; John Dickman, Google’s global food service manager, discussing the rewards and challenges of serving local, sustainably-grown food in their seventeen cafés; and Georgia Malki, president of SevenStar, the company charged with greening Al Gore’s worldwide Live Earth concerts.
Carolyn Brown founded GreenWave Strategies to help shift the cultural paradigm and dominant practices toward sustainability through a combination of business strategies, communications and marketing.
The highlight of the evening was a spin on the traditional swag bag. Instead of plying attendees with useless trashy gifts, we received recycled shopping bags with super cool Sigg bottles—and then got to fill the bags with fresh produce from a “farm stand” set up by farmers in the Fairmont restaurant. Attendees left feeling happy and inspired by their newfound conscious business sensibilities.

The Bioneers Conference
A Weekend to Remember

On the beautiful Autumn weekend of Oct. 19, 20 and 21, a group of likeminded people came together at the Marin Center in San Rafael for the 2007 Bioneers Conference. Bursting with energy and ideas focused on making positive changes in our environment and communities, Bioneers brought together visionaries and activists, scientists and yogis, artists and economists, architects and gardeners, farmers and journalists, and policymakers and citizens with the hopes of supporting one another and the movement toward preserving life on Earth and check this Drop Pants

Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons, founders and co-producers of Bioneers, kicked off the event, followed by three days filled with positive discussions, examples and ideas. Friday night was a celebration of films and their makers who produce art in order to make the country a better place. Saturday evening’s speaker was astrologer Caroline Casey, creator of The Visionary Activist Show on Pacifica Radio stations (KPFA), followed by live drumming and dancing. It was a weekend that will be forever remembered by all who attended, and hopefully a weekend that will aid in the restoration of health to our beautiful planet.
Written by Megan Dickson

Raw Food Real World
By Matthew Kenney & Sarma Melngailis
Reviewed by Kate Linville
Raw Food Real World is a guide to delicious raw creations. From creamy carrot ginger soup to zucchini and tomato lasagna with pignoli ricotta and basil pistachio pesto to dark chocolate ganache tart with vanilla cream, going raw definitely doesn’t have to mean going hungry.

Husband and wife team Matthew Kenney and Sarma Melngailis morphed their shared passion in the kitchen from cooking food over fire to raw preparation once they experienced the array of positive changes it had on their health. Personal stories and research shared throughout the book bring insight into how the duo was able to say goodbye to cooked food and open up to the benefits of a raw lifestyle. Tackling everything from sweeteners to coconuts to hemp protein, Kenny and Melngailis offer a vast resource for navigating raw territory.

Although a raw lifestyle rich with organic produce can take a toll on the pocketbook, the authors provide plenty of reasons to hand in chemically induced, standard produce for organics rich in nutrients and vitamins. Presenting a number of delicious raw recipes such as asparagus and porcini ravioli, soft corn tortillas filled with spicy fixings and tomato tartar with green mango relish and macadamia nut milk, readers are exposed to the numerous ways a raw lifestyle can accommodate any craving. The book is brimming with colorful photographs that bring the food to life, inspiring a healthy kitchen and mouth-watering entertainment ideas. Dazzle friends and family by bringing a hearty, raw creation to your holiday gathering.
Harper Collins – $34.95