Jumpstarting the New Green Economy

I can’t thank you all enough for your supporting the effort to spread word of the conference.  It was a pleasure meeting and collaborating with you all.
Here are a couple of conference followups:
i.  Kevin’s terrific interview with Douglas Frances Subbiondo:
http://greenventuresconference.org/?p=2918
ii. Comment on Jonathan’s conference eve post:
http://greenventuresconference.org/?p=2311&cpage=1#comment-179
iii. Twitter Posts:
FDUJSG - RT@ethanappleseed Blog & slideshow on Carbon-negative chocolate, Financial [...]

Thanks to the “Jump Starting the New Green Economy” conference my eyes were opened to a new sustainability hero, the independent restaurateur. For the past 17 years, Francis Schott has been a partner in the highly successful, independent restaurant, stageleft, which sits next to the George St. Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ. What makes the restaurant special is that its management does all it can to use locally grown ingredients for the creation of its entrees and desserts. As Schott sees it, this practice of buying locally adds yet another layer to the networks that restaurants naturally create whereby the fabric of community is drawn together tighter.

Not only did Douglas turn out to be a bonafide gourmet who cooks for private households and parties, but a remarkable resource on “perennial polycultures,” a whole field of horticulture that I was entirely unaware of prior to our conversation, but one that I am looking to educate myself on promptly.

The Jumpstarting the Green Economy Conference now has a Twitter identity FDUJSG and here’s the link:  http://twitter.com/FDUJSG
If you are a Twitterer please:
i. Take a moment to follow FDUJSG
and
ii. When you are Tweeting the conference please use hash tag #fdujsg on each of your posts so it’s easier to follow the conference stream.
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Following the Call for Bloggers posted to the conference site I’m delighted to announce the first 4 members of the Jumpstarting the Green Economy Conference blogging team:

Anna Hackman, Green Building & Business Consultant, LEED AP, Real Estate Lawyer, and Editor and Founder of Green Talk,  http://www.green-talk.com/
Kevin Doell, Principal, Fulcrum Media LLC & founder of The Green [...]