Evan Marks

Blair Seibert

Guest Speaker: Blair Seibert, Verde Concepts, Inc.

Topic: Greening your office

Description: SBLC presents your opportunity to Spring Clean with Blair Seibert's presentation on “Greening Your Office.” Ms Seibert, AIA, LEED AP Bd+C, is the principal and fonder of Verde Concepts, Inc. in Los Angeles.

It’s been 2 years since we’ve had a presentation on sustainability within the office space and it's a great honor to have an architect with the range of experience Blair Seibert brings to the topic. From 25 years of implementing sustainable systems in 30 LEED projects, to improving environmental practices and making complex issues easy to understand, your time will be most efficiently utilized sipping on a connoisseur's cup of coffee from Portola Coffee Lab and updating your perspective on the best that can me done right where you work!

Evan Marks

Aileen Homes

Guest Speaker: Aileen Homes

Topic: Trends in Sustainable Fashion

Description: From upcycling fashion and the “Made in America” trend, to eco-friendly design and fair trade fashion, Aileen Holmes will unpack the inside scoop on how the fashion industry does sustainability. Ms. Holmes comes to SBLC’s monthly meeting with a rich history of providing creative design services and trend research for Mattel, Sunrise Brands, Artisan de Luxe, Unionbay, and OC FASHION WEEK.

Come tap into the innovative ways fashion is getting greener. A cross industry breather may provide that “out of the box” perspective you need to solve your business’ green challenges.

Evan Marks

Guest Speaker: Jeff Smith, Growers First Coffee

Topic: Direct Trade Coffee

Description: Come hear Jeff talk about their unique business model of “Direct Trade” that goes beyound “Free Trade.” Check out their video below.

Evan Marks

Guest Speaker: Evan Marks, Executive Director, The Ecology Center

Topic: Everyday sustainability. How getting your hands-dirty can make a big difference!

Speaker Biography: Ever since the native Californian joined the Surfrider Foundation back in high school, Evan Marks' life-long career as an environmentalist was already underway. Through this participation, Marks was convinced that people had the ability to directly impact the environment by taking matters into their own hands.

He continued his advocacy while attending the University of California, Santa Cruz where he studied Agroecology - the study of sustainable agriculture - with the goal of transforming modern agriculture through integrated organic systems management. Having worked extensively in California and Hawaii and internationally in Costa Rica, Peru, Mexico, Ghana and Nigeria, Marks acquired personal hands-on experience in the fields of ecological design and sustainable agriculture.

In 2008, Marks was given the opportunity to bring environmental education and awareness to Southern California with the development of The Ecology Center. Working to transform the facility as the regional hub for sustainability and green living, Marks and volunteers of The Ecology Center are actively recruiting members in hopes of promoting eco-consciousness across San Juan Capistrano and its neighboring communities. The effects of the programs of this center have the potential to mold the future of Orange County.

Michael Gould

Guest Speaker: Michael Gould, LEED Green Associate, CIMS-GB ISSA Certification Expert, District Sales Manager, Waxie Sanitary Supply

Topic: Green cleaning, Green cleaning in LEED, The future of green cleaning.

Description: At Waxie, we are passionate about contributing to clean, healthy and safe indoor and outdoor environments, and green cleaning, and water preservation, and recycling are critical components. Let’s Talk Cleaning: The Benefits of Green Cleaning, Green Cleaning Product Certifications, Green Cleaning in LEED EB:OM, Writing a Green Cleaning Policy, and Green Cleaning – The Future! Actual product(s) will be presented… This presentation can help you at work and home!

Kimberly KeytonGuest Speaker: Kimberly Keyton

Topic: The unknown economic benefits of greening for business owners.

Description: It's back to school for the kids and time to reassess your plan for functioning leaner and greener. Kimberly will help our members and guests wrap their minds around an upstream / downstream approach to running their businesses green. So if you’ve done a lot of different green things here and there.... but you feel like you need to find a better way to run your business sustainably, get yourself over to The Camp at ECCO, Tuesday, Sept. 13th and get your - Strategic Green Think - on!

Gregory TrimarcheGuest Speaker: Gregory Trimarche - Chairman of CleanTech OC

Topic: Join us for the first joint meeting between CleanTech OC and SBLC! Gregory Trimarche, Chairman of CleanTech OC, will discuss an aspect of the economic side of Sustainability. Then we’ll participate in a lively roundtable discussion on how our organizations can help each other, and promote Sustainability!

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Guest Speaker: Jerry Provansal - Landscapes USA

Jerry Provansal, with Landscapes USA

Topic: Can Landscaping be Beautiful and cost-effective? How can I do this inexpensively, at home or work? And how can something, like an assisted living home, be transformed into a community, with landscaping and other innovations? Come hear Jerry Provansal, with Landscapes USA, discuss innovative, easy, and/or inexpensive ways to address Environmental and Social Sustainability at work, home and in the garden!

1.0 GBCI CEU Approved

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has approved the technical and instructional quality of this course for 1.0 GBCI CE Hour towards the LEED Credential Maintenance Program. Course approval number is 0090006370

Description: "Each year around 100 million laptops are replaced in the developed world as consumers upgrade to the latest technologies. The increasing number of laptops being replaced poses a significant e-waste management problem. The Labdoo project aims to extend the life of the laptops by providing school children in developing countries with laptops for education. The project encourages everyone to include their laptops within our online database. Once these laptops are broken or out of use, users are then reminded to bring it to us in order to be recycled properly or donated to an education installment project with a partnering organization."