Tuesday

Nov. 16 - Tools & Tips for Building a Sustainable Business in LA


SBC MIXER AND PANEL PRESENTS "TOOLS & TIPS FOR BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS" ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16th AT VALCUCINE IN BEVERLY HILLS

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- November 1, 2010 -- The Sustainable Business Council of Los Angeles (SBC), a non-profit organization which provides a professional networking and education forum for Southern California businesses and individuals working with sustainable products, services, and processes, will host an especially important panel discussion for today's world, "Tools & Tips for Building a Sustainable Business." The panel features six key players in businesses who will help guide the audience through topics especially integral to bolstering and growing sustainable businesses in Los Angeles. Several leading companies will also be on hand with showcase tables prior to the panel. The event will take place on Tuesday, November 16, 2010, from 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. at Valcucine's showroom in Beverly Hills. The distinctive presentation reinforces SBC's commitment to showcasing environmentally-conscious businesses, and spotlighting cutting-edge sustainability trends and best practices across a broad range of industry sectors.

Moderated by Fran Seegull, Venture Partner at Funk Ventures and Senior Fellow at the Society and Business Lab of USC's Marshall School of Business, "Tools & Tips for Building a Sustainable Business" features:

"The challenges facing sustainable businesses in this economic climate are significant, but so are the opportunities," said Seegull. "With this panel, we look forward to sharing tools and tips for small business growth in the areas of financing, legal, IP, marketing and social media." Specific topics include:
  • How to get an SBA loan
  • How to get angel investors
  • How to get corporate sponsors
  • How to get affordable yet good IP/business attorneys
  • How to achieve effective marketing and social media strategies
  • And ultimately how to create and maintain a successful, sustainable business model
Event Registration
Advance registration is required to attend SBC's "Tools & Tips for Building a Sustainable Business" panel discussion. To RSVP, please visit www.sustainablebc.org/events_registration.html

General admission price of $25* includes:

  • Admission to "Tools & Tips for Building a Sustainable Business" panel discussion.
  • Networking opportunities with sustainable business leaders.
  • Light refreshments

About the Sustainable Business Council of Los Angeles
The Sustainable Business Council of Los Angeles (SBC) is a non-profit organization acting as a professional networking and education forum for California businesses and individuals working with sustainable products, services, and processes. The Council's goal is to assist members with improving their profits, enhancing their communities, and protecting the environment through the education of business professionals about the opportunities represented by technologies and management philosophies that reduce negative and unsustainable ecological impacts. For more information, please visit http://www.sustainablebc.org.

About Thompson Hine LLP
Established in 1911, Thompson Hine is a business law firm dedicated to providing superior client service. The firm has been recognized as one of the Best Corporate Law Firms in America in an annual survey of corporate directors conducted by Corporate Board Member magazine. With approximately 400 lawyers, Thompson Hine serves premier businesses worldwide.



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20x2020 Water Summit: Wednesday, November 10

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
700 North Alameda Street Los Angeles, CA 90012
Summit Information: (213) 217-6675 or
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Friday

Midterm Election Voter's Guide To Energy Independence

(Hollywood, California) October 28, 2010 Major Producers, Directors, Musicians and Actors Challenge America to Vote for


Candidates with the "Guts"To Make America "Energy Independent" by 2020

 

 With just days until the critical Midterm Elections, famed Producer Marshall Herskovitz ("30 Something", "The Last Samurai" and Past President of  The Producer's Guild) and Academy Award winning Writer and Director, Paul  Haggis, (Crash) together with dozens of Hollywood celebrities and musicians launched  their "Midterm Election Voter's Guide" to encourage Americans to vote FOR something - candidates, Democrat, Republican or Independent, with the "guts" to make The United States Energy Independent, on clean AMERICAN Energy, by the year 2020.  


You can see more here about the campaign here:www.EnergyIndependentCongress.US


Musicians Jason Mraz, Maroon 5 and Graham Nash and actors Rosario Dawson, Jason Alexander, Michelle Rodriguez, Ed Begley, Noah Wyle, Rosanna Arquette, Valerie Harper, James Cromwell, Peter Coyote and many others have gone public with their support of  the clean energy candidates endorsed by The Sierra Club, The League of  Conservation Voters, The National Wildlife Foundation Action Fund and Vote Vets.

 

They say now is the time for America to think big like Dwight Eisenhower did with the national highway system in 1956 and JFK did with the space program in 1961 and that it is THESE candidates, committed to solar and wind and a new energy infrastructure for America who will create the new jobs throu

gh a serious commitment to making America “Energy Independent” on clean AMERICAN energy. 

 

List of Endorsed Candidates: The Voters Guide: Click here: Energy Independent Congress - 2010 Senate and House of Representatives Endorsements

Blog by Richard Greene, Marshall Herskovitz and Paul Haggis launching this new effort: The Unspoken Solution to America's Problems: The Voter's Guide for November 2 


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Patyka, What It Means To Feel Beautiful


Patyka is a Parisienne beauty care brand that is not just delicious for what is between the covers, but also has put much care into its packaging as well. Unwrapping the Absolis Patyka Neroli Brightening body lotion is like unwrapping origami.
Not only do you find the treasure of the smooth-smelling EcoCert, CosmeBio, Leaping Bunny certified lotion inside the package, you are also welcomed with a message announcing that you have just unwrapped a "tree-free" box that is made from sugar cane residue, flax and hemp. Their philosophy?
Because nothing is lost and everything is transformed. - Patyka

But back to the EcoBeauty products themselves that Patyka calls "beauté remarquable" a phrase they've trademarked.

It translates to "Remarkable Beauty" and is encapsulated by not just an ingredients list but also a philosophy that emphasizes every bit a woman's feelings of inner beauty. The Patyka manifesto:
My beauty is a work of art...My well being stems from an approach that rids me of any complexes and respects me and my environment...Modern, responsible, active and demanding - my beauty bears testimony to the fact that an effective and intelligent cosmetic solution exists...
Each product, as well as their line of perfumes, is carefully crafted and blended with an apothecarist's wisdom.  Case in point: Neroli body lotion is a blend of Neroli and Sesame: Neroli soothes, tones and restores elasticity and is tolerated by most skin types. Sesame is rich in Omega 3 and 6. Sesame oil is easily absorbed by the skin and takes with it all of the active properties of the substances it is blended with. It also restructures the skin tissue.

NoPeg Natural Beauty Care Shop, 75002 Paris

You can find Patyka products at NoPeg in Paris, a delightful natural beauty products shop that also offers day spa pampering such as foot massages and facials.
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Thursday

First-of-Its-Kind Renewable Energy Facility, Ivanpah, California

In California in the past few months, 3,500 megawatts of solar have been approved. This is revolutionary. Current total energy usage is approximately 26,000 to 32,000 megawatts of energy. Approved solar plants are now 10 percent of what is used in energy. This makes California the leader in the world.

The following comments are from John Woolard of Brightsource speaking at October 27th Press Conference, Ivanpah, California:

 

A few facts about Ivanpah, just to put it in perspective: Ivanpah is now the world's largest solar plant under construction. And it takes a lot to get a solar plant under construction. You've got to have transmission, you've got to have permits, you've got to have investors, you've got to have an EPC contractor -- we're honored to have Bechtel here as our EPC contractor.  

 

When it's completed, Ivanpah will double the amount of solar thermal produced in the U.S.

 

There's a lot of talk about the U.S. and competiveness and China. And Ivanpah alone, one plant, one facility, is two times larger than all of the solar that came in from China that was installed last year -- so one plant, one facility, bigger than all of the solar that came in from China last year.

 

This project, Ivanpah, will have a dramatic effect on helping us meet our state's clean energy and our climate change goals and in less than two years we'll be producing some of the most reliable and the lowest carbon-content power anywhere in the country. -  Mr. John Woolard, CEO, Brightsource (speaking at Press Conference in Ivanpah, California October 27th, 2010)

Water Saving Environmental Design: Dry Cooling

 

Ivanpah uses dry-cooling as opposed to wet cooling. Dry cooling uses 3 to 4 percent of the water that wet-cool designs use. In the desert, and in many U.S. states, water is an ever more precious commodity. Dry cooling used in the Ivanpah design, then, is an environmentally responsible design.

 

A Healthy Environment, A Healthy Economy

 

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was on hand to make a few comments:

 

When I ran for governor in 2003 I made it very clear that, you know, we should stop the fight over should we protect the environment or should we protect the economy. I always said that we can do both. And I think that we have proven that over the last few years since I have come into office, that you can put both of those together.

 

And this is why we went, when I came into office, we immediately, aggressively started building the Hydrogen Highway and we started to pass laws -- the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard, the Million Solar Roof Initiative to build solar roofs all over the state of California and also to pass AB 32 and to make a commitment, like some other countries have done all around the world, to reduce our greenhouse gases by 25 percent and to bring it back to the 1990 level. So that was our goal and, after 2020, to reduce it an additional 85 percent.


From Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar

 

Ivanpah is truly a revolutionary project. It is a pioneering project, as was stated earlier. So I was thinking about it today -- and people were referencing a moon shot here in California with Ivanpah -- I was thinking back to what John Kennedy said back at the beginning of his administration, where he said that we would, in the United States, have the ability, if we only had the courage, to be able to get a man to the moon and we would be able to do that within 10 years. When he made that statement he had the vision of looking way ahead, because none of the facilities had been built, the engineering had not been put together. And so it was a dream and a vision that he had and yet, because of American ingenuity, because of the great people we had involved in those projects, we were able to get a man to the moon within nine years....

 

But it's also about our reliance on foreign oil. From the days of Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter in the '70s and coining the term "energy independence," the failed policies on energy of the United States have taken us in the opposite direction. We're now turning the clock back and we're moving forward in a new direction with respect to that energy future that's all important for our national security.

 

And finally, with respect to clean air -- we will be able to power the economy of our world through clean energy sources and that's part of what we're doing here with capturing the power of the sun.

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Tuesday

Last Paradise Film Director Clive Neeson Interview

Sustainable World Radio Host Jill Cloutier interviews Clive Neeson, Director of Last Paradise Film:
Interview with Clive Neeson, director of the documentary Last Paradise.  Last Paradise contains 45 years of footage from beautiful places all around the globe, and chronicles the adventure of extreme sports pioneers.  As kids, they played in nature.  As adults, they protect it.

  http://pdcastsusworldradio.libsyn.com/last-paradise-an-eco-adventure-film


Last Paradise is a cheerful showcase of early pioneering adventures in extreme sports that doubles as a poignant look at how much our world has changed in 40 years---culturally, environmentally and technologically.  By rekindling a love of the wild and tapping the powerful forces of nature Neeson suggests tomorrows potential protectors of the planet are the kids that play in it today. 
 
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Thursday

Esquire House L.A. Benefits International Medical Corps

Sienna Miller hosts Esquire House Benefit, L.A.

International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Hosted by Sienna Miller, the evening served as the grand opening of Esquire House LA.

 

Aaron Eckhart at Esquire House, L.A.

For the eighth consecutive year, Esquire magazine has opened the doors to “the ultimate bachelor pad.”

The $18.9 million House continued its tradition of playing host to some of the season’s most highly anticipated charity and celebrity events by hosting a benefit for the International Medical Corps on Friday night.

Sponsors for the International Medical Corps benefit at Esquire House LA included HUGO BOSS and Lufthansa.

In Attendance: Host Sienna Miller, along with event committee members Kimberly and Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Felicity Huffman,Marlon Wayans and guests Lance Bass, Kate Bosworth, Mehcad Brooks, Alexandria Daddario, Aaron Eckhart, John Legend, Gilles Marini, Teresa Palmer, Kyle Richards, Michelle Rodriguez, Teddy Sears, Alexander Skarsgard, Karina Smirnoff, Paul Stanley, Jordan Wooleyand many more.

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Monday

Hollywood's Green Moguls Take Home Top Awards

James Cameron and wife Suzy speak on EMA Red Carpet at Warner Bros. backlot for Saturday's Environmental Media Awards, for which Avatar took home top Feature Film Award. Photo courtesy Ann Murray.

 

 

Ed Begley Jr. was also honored with top prize at EMA Awards for Life With Ed Tv Series.                                    Photo courtesy Ann Photo Courtesy Ann Murray.

 

By: Ann Murray

The green carpet rolled out for The Environmental Media Association's EMA Awards this Saturday at the Warner Bros. movie lot, which was hosted by Olivia Munn and Jason Ritter. The event, which was completely plastic water bottle free, honored environmental films and television series, tackled topics such as alternative fuel sources and even featured a live Native American Dance troupe.

Celebrity guests included the brilliant James Cameron and his beautiful and green conscious wife, Suzy Amis Cameron (famous for her own green fashion choices). They were both on hand when Avatar snagged the night's award for Feature Film. On the green carpet, Cameron explained the significance of how his film was shot and its overall environmental impact.

"Let's look at the big picture," he said. "Avatar was a film that took place in an enormous rain forest. Can't shoot big battle scenes in a rain forest. It was 100 percent CGI. There were a few people playing multiple roles so the footprint compared to the visual impact was very tiny. But ultimately it's a multi-hundred million dollar movie, there are a lot of people working on computers, and those computers are absorbing energy. There's no way you can say this movie was made with one watt of power. But you have to weigh the value of the film with the environmental impact in the public consciousness." - James Cameron,  on making Avatar

 

 

Rosario Dawson is all for Greening Hollywood. At EMA Awards Oct. 16th, Warner Bros. lot. Photo courtesy Ann Murray.

 

 

Warner Bros. backlot just before EMA Awards Oct. 16, 2010. Photo courtesy Ann Murray.

 

 

 

EMA Awards Oct. 16, 2010. Warner Bros. Photo Courtesy Ann Murray.

 

Other stars gave us the scoop on how their television sets are enviro-friendly and waste-free. Sarah Drew from Grey's Anatomy took tips from a fellow star on the set: "I was very inspired by Sandra Oh, because she never uses paper products on set," she told us on the red carpet. "She uses her own mugs that say "Oh" on it, and she has her own plates. I went out and bought a reusable mug that looks like one of those coffee cups. I also bring my water bottle to set every day."

Katrina Bowden took us inside 30 Rock's very serious green policies;  "Our show is green, we have done away with all plastic bottles," she said. "At the beginning of the season we get our own mugs with our names on it, there's recycling bins everywhere, efficient light bulbs everywhere. The same thing I am doing at home too."

 

Native American dancing at EMA Awards, Oct. 16, 2010. Photo courtesy Ann Murray.

 

Mark Paul Gosselaar, on the other hand, told us it hasn't always been easy to keep a set's waste and energy consumption down, but that now being green on set is the norm. "So much so that when they gave my character a car, I asked that they made it a Prius" he told us about his time on 'Raising the Bar'. "They said "we'll get you a Prius!" but I don't think that would have happened years ago."

 

 

EMA Awards Silent Auction. Film Production and Eco Travel, a Natural Fit. Photo courtesy Ann Murray.

 

But if a film or TV series still finds it difficult to keep their carbon footprint in check, they might want to follow green guru Ed Begley Jr.'s guidance. "Contact EMA and get that green checklist for production," he told us. "It's simple things like recycling on the set, not printing scripts - if you have to print them, do so on recycled paper. Use pdf files. As an actor, I like to use pdfs. Shuttling people around, get a low mileage vehicle and more fuel efficient shuttles, buy green energy, have efficient lighting in the production office. Really it's as easy as checking out the EMA list."

In addition to "Avatar," "30 Rock," the documentary "Gasland" and Begley's "Living With Ed" took home top honors of the night.

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Sunday

Ed, Avatar, 30 Rock, Disney, Bones Win Big At EMA Awards 2010

LOS ANGELES, CA, OCTOBER 16, 2010 – The Environmental Media Association awarded seven films and television programs for their outstanding contributions to environmental causes and green initiatives.  ‘Avatar,’ ‘Bones,’ ’30 Rock’Recognized for Environmentally Conscious Programming Olivia Munn and Jason Ritter Hosted Exclusive Affair Attended by Eva Mendes, Natalie Portman, Jane Fonda, James Cameron, Ted Turner and more!  Presented by Toyota and Lexus, the awards celebrated the organization’s 20th anniversary and were held Saturday, October 16, 2010 at Warner Bros Studios in Los Angeles.  The evening concluded with a rousing performance by Kenny Loggins – who had the entire audience singing along.

Winners for 2010 Environmental Media Awards are:

 

FEATURE FILM
Avatar (20th Century Fox)

James Cameron - Director / Writer / Producer / Editor

Jon Landau - Producer

Mauro Fiore - Cinematographer

James Horner - Composer

 

DOCUMENTARY

Gasland (HBO)

Josh Fox - Director / Writer / Producer

Trish Adlesic - Producer

Molly Gandour - Producer

Matthew Sanchez - Editor

 

TELEVISION EPISODIC DRAMA

Bones (FOX)

Hart Hanson – Creator

Dean Lopata – Writer


TELEVISION EPISODIC COMEDY
30 Rock (NBC)

Tina Fey – Creator / Writer

 

REALITY PROGRAM

Living with Ed (Planet Green)

Ed Begley Jr. – Protagonist

Bud W. Brutsman – Executive Producer

Joseph Brutsman – Executive Producer

CHILDREN’S LIVE ACTION

Lights, Camera, Take Action! Backstage with Disney's Friends for Change (Disney Channel)

F. Michael Blum – Director/Executive Producer

Tracy Pion - Director

Lisa Poncino - Producer

Karen Inwood Somers – Producer

Anghel Decca- Cinematographer

Miriam Seger - Production Designer  

 

CHILDREN’S ANIMATED

Handy Manny (Disney Channel)

Roger Bollen – Creator/Executive Producer

 Marilyn Sadler – Creator

Rick Gitelson – Executive Producer

Stars in attendance included honorees 

Jeff Skoll (Philanthropist/Entrepreneur) andTed Turner (Media Mogul); Eva Mendes (The Other Guys), Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation), Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation), Daryl Hannah (Kill Bill: Vol. 1, 2), Erika Christensen (Parenthood), Frances Fisher (Titanic), James Cameron (director, Avatar) and Suzy Amis Cameron, Jane Fonda (Monster-in-Law), Jason Ritter (TV’s The Event), Jessalyn Gilsig (TV’s Glee), Joanna Garcia(Gossip Girl), Kathryn Morris (TV’s Cold Case), Katrina Bowden (TV’s 30 Rock),Lance Bass (TV’s Dancing With The Stars), Mark-Paul Gosselaar (TV’s Raising the Bar), Michaela Conlin (TV’s Bones), Olivia Munn (TV’s The Daily Show),Rosario Dawson (Percy Jackson And The Olympians), Sam Page (TV’s Mad Men), Sara Rue (TV’s Eastwick), Wendie Malick (TV’s Hot In Cleveland), Wilmer Valderrama (TV’s That 70s Show), and more!

 

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Saturday

Sarkozy Honors Sundance Kid

Nicolas Sarkozy confers French Legion of Honor on Robert Redford at Elysee Palace, October 14, 2010. Photo by Francois Mori, Pool.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday afternoon honored Robert Redford, 74 years old, with the French Legion of Honor. The Sundance Kid and film director was honored by Sarkozy for his lifetime of achievements as well as his support for the protection of the environment. Sarkozy made Redford a Knight in the Legion of Honor.

Those who love cinema long remember...(your) films, which we watch and re-watch with the same emotion each time... - Sarkozy

We need friends like you who have the courage to try to wake up people's consciousness about the environment... - Sarkozy

Redford's environmental activism spans back decades. It is one of the principles upon which he founded the Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival held every year in January in Park City, Utah.

Redford's wife, Sybille Szaggers, a German born artist, accompanied him to the Elysee Palace, the official state residence of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on Thursday afternoon for the intimate ceremony. Previous inductees include Clint Eastwood.

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