[Hidden-tech] Forwarded From the MSBCD: Women & Green - 15th Women Business Owners Conference

[Claudia Gere]

15th Women Business Owners Conference

Women and Green

it goes with everything

 

 

Sustainable Business Practices - Being green, organic and environmentally
friendly - What does it mean to your business, the budget and the bottom
line?

The stars are aligned and it's time to think and act in a sustainable way.
Green meets business and it is one of the most powerful business decisions
that will impact your business and the bottom line. The green issue is a
matter of risk verses reward. Businesses need to start looking at how
sustainable practices affect the bottom line but they must also be
financially prudent and not simply get caught up in the "green wave". Come
hear our keynote speaker and a panel of business owners that are taking the
lead and finding sustainability in ways that make sense within their
businesses. They will share their stories of transforming "business as
usual" practices by tapping into existing green business programs,
developing new partnerships, creating new programs, and taking care of
business in new ways.  They understand that we must do business differently.


 
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Willits-Hallowell Center

Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

Registration & coffee - 8:00 a.m.

Program - 8:30 a.m. to noon 

followed by an optional lunch

 

Registration fee:  $50 or $65 with lunch

Student fee:  $10 or $25 with lunch

 

To register please call:  413.737.6712 x100

 

Presented by the Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network and

The Bank of Western Massachusetts

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Keynote Speaker

Diane Wolverton is a woman in love, with life. This love of life is present
in her work as an educator and as an advocate of sustainable business at the
University of Wyoming where she is the State Director of the Small Business
Center since 1995. Diane assists business owners in the development and
implementation of sustainable practices and helps them look at how those
practices affect the bottom line. In a review of Diane's first novel, Return
of the Yin: A Tale of Peace and Hope for a Troubled World, Aliza Pilar
Sherman wrote "Wolverton believes that women have the power to transform
industry in two important ways: making conscious choices about the products
they purchase and the companies they support through their purchases, and
starting 'yin industries', businesses whose main mission is based on
bringing love into the world." Diane holds a Master's Degree in adult
education from the University of Wyoming and a doctoral degree from Wisdom
University. 

Panelists

ADRIE LESTER is co-owner of Wheatberry Bakery & Cafe which specializes in
hand crafted breads, pastries, and prepared foods, with an emphasis on local
ingredients and green business practices. Wheatberry is committed to helping
build a stronger local food community and has formed a non-profit called
"Pioneer Valley Heritage Grains" to provide resources to local food growers.
Adrie is a graduate of the Connecticut Culinary Institute, and recipient of
the U.S. Small Business Administration's 2008 Massachusetts Young
Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

MARY MOORE CATHCART opened The Claw Foot Tub, a retail home furnishings and
design studio, in 2006 as a way of expanding her design services which
specializes in hard to find products: hand picked, artisan made, local,
earth friendly, fairly traded, museum-quality everyday household items.
Mixing new with old, modern with traditional, she is concerned with the
spirituality of homekeeping and encourages consciousness of the impact (on
ourselves and the planet) of the items we put into our homes. Mary Moore
studied at Hampshire College and has a Master's degree from Cornell
University.  

PAM LEWIS is co-owner of loveybums, a family owned and operated business
located in Western Mass.that specializes in natural and organic cloth
diapering products. Their products are made here in New England with
eco-friendly fabrics produced in the U.S. and are Co-op America approved for
people and planet. Pam began designing cloth diapers for her own children.
Discovering cloth diapers were scarce in her community, she approached local
stores about selling them. She went on to open an online store and markets
loveybums through stores across the U.S. and internationally. Pam has a
Master's Degree in Social Work from the University of Connecticut.

 

 

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