When she’s not recommending you eat your yard, Melinda Cheel, Executive Director of the Green Chamber of Commerce, is working to support and promote green businesses and organizations.
How do you eco?
Professionally, I’m working to help support, promote, and give a political voice to sustainable businesses so they’re able to survive and thrive.
Personally, I do all I can to support local green businesses. And I’m obsessed with composting.
Christopher Gavigan, Chief Executive Officer of Healthy Child Healthy World, has dedicated himself to improving the lives of children and families. Christopher believes Eco progress with from steady steps and not necessarily a big leap.
How do you eco?
When it comes to eco-consciousness, no one can do everything but everyone can do something. Going [...]
Nancy Massotto is executive director of the Holistic Moms Network, a non-profit support and resource organization connecting parents interested in holistic health and green living. Founded by a handful of moms yearning for the support and friendship of others outside the mainstream. Today the group has 120+ chapters across the U.S. and Canada.
Laura Allen lives in the San Franciso Bay Area and is an active gardener, elementary school teacher and aspiring inventor. She teaches urban gardening, creek restoration and sustainable technologies. Co-author of the notorious Guerrilla Greywater Girls Guide to Water, she has been scheming and constructing greywater systems for years. Favorite activities include smashing concrete, hanging out in wetlands, visiting people’s eco toilets, and drinking tea.
How do you eco?
We work towards creating a sustainable water future for all through presentations and workshops about greywater reuse and ecological sanitation. In our workshops participants learn the concepts of greywater use and practical hands-on skills. We also published Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground, that highlights water struggles and solutions from around the globe.
Jill Buck is founder & executive director of the Go Green Initiative, a comprehensive environmental education program operating in 50 states, Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe and Mexico. Jill, a former Naval Officer and proud mother of three, argues that even after 200 years, Ben Franklin is still the man when we think about what an eco-friendly existence means.
How do you eco?
I like to think of ‘green’ as who I am, not what I do. I’d like to think that I’m the kind of person who wouldn’t knowingly waste anything, and so I try to act accordingly. And I wouldn’t knowingly introduce toxins into my children’s world, and so I try to make sure I don’t. I “eco” by trying to think through the ramifications of my action (or inaction), and when I reach the point when I don’t know the effect of my actions, I try to find out.
Prior to him hitting the stage to deliver Greenfair Silicon Valley’s keynote address, we talked transit and the beauty of a good walk with eco-activist, actor, author and entrepreneur Ed Begley, Jr., star of the tv show “Living with Ed” and author of Living Like Ed
How do you eco?
I try to do it every day of my life with my transportation and everything else. For me walking is #1, biking is #2, public transport is #3, my electric car is #4 and sometimes it’s even my wife’s Prius.
