Jumpstarting the New Green Economy

Every human endeavor, including this one, starts with an idea. But an event that involves hundreds of people, especially one to discuss both the crisis and the opportunity of our times in an innovative way, very quickly takes on a life of its own. 
At some point, it’s important to step back from the logistics of the event [...]

Thank you for registering for our Jumpstarting the New Green Economy conference, May 19-21 at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s College at Florham in Madison, NJ. For directions and conference updates, please check this site on a regular basis.
This conference brings together a wide range of topics and speakers on sustainability and the new economy that is needed to [...]

One of the ways we’re seeking to leverage the Conference is to provide a launchpad for new initiatives. These initiatives will be presented during 3-hour action-learning workshops on Thursday, May 21 starting at 2 p.m.:
Transition New Jersey
A project of Community Green, the TransitionNJ.org initiative is designed to assist communities to start transition programs in their [...]

It’s clear scanning the Green Ventures Conference site that rich discussions about all aspects of Jumpstarting the New Green Economy are planned May 19-21 at ISE.  Importantly, however, we don’t want the conversations to be limited to inside the conference rooms, nor cease when the conference is done. Hence this call for bloggers.
We want to hear [...]

Amongst many other things, we are aiming to make the Conference, and the Green Expo and Green Jobs Fair, a more sustainable event – to walk our talk wherever we can, and provide an example of what’s possible (and what’s needed for a sustainable future).
Right now we’re focusing on three aspects of this:

Reducing food and [...]

After registering for the conference, participants can visit the Green Expo, and then head over to the Dreyfuss Theater for the first of several live remote conversations with global experts on sustainability, green jobs, climate change, environmental justice, and economic and political reform. 
Bob Willard, author of The Sustainable Advantage and The Next Sustainability Wave, will be [...]

Jerry Flach is the founding Principal of Sustainable Solutions LLC which provides sustainable business consulting and community development solutions in service to profit, nonprofit and civic organizations committed to advancing economic, environmental and social goals. Jerry’s current initiatives include directing the building of energy efficient and healthy affordable housing and urban redevelopment with the [...]

Lori Braunstein is the Executive Director and Founder of Sustainable Cherry Hill. She arrived at this position by using her background in small business, speech pathology, and motherhood to gain enough momentum in her community to gain support from her local government. Sustainable Cherry Hill is a non-profit, grass roots organization with a mission of [...]

Dr. dt ogilvie, Associate Professor of Business Strategy at Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick, founded The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CUEED), which launched in October 2008. Through the Profeta Urban Investment Fund, CUEED funds minority-owned businesses in the Entertainment, Arts, and Retail sectors that locate within a mile of [...]