Bloom 4
April 5th, 2012
Bloom! is Seattle’s “Green TED” – an evening of innovative speakers working in sustainability – social, environmental, or economic sustainability. We’ll have six speakers, drinks, and plenty of time for schmoozing.
Join us for Bloom 4 — 5 April 2012 — 6pm doors, 7pm start
We’ll be back at Sole Repair, at 1001 East Pike on Capitol Hill.
Do you have an interesting story at the intersection of local, sustainable, and innovation? Read here to learn more about what we’re looking for, and then we’d love to hear from you!
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Donna Morton, CEO and co-founder of First Power
Donna Morton, CEO and co-founder of First Power, has a mission to put clean energy, jobs and equity in the hands of first nations and other communities. She is an Unreasonable Institute and Ashoka fellow. She also co-founded the Centre for Integral Economics, CIE which promotes market-based solutions to sustainability and put tax shifting and carbon taxes on the map across Canada.
Donna is a serial-social entrepreneur and has experience ranging from Greenpeace, to US think-tank Sightline Institute in Seattle. Donna is a storyteller and has spoken or keynoted events including: 3 TEDx events, BALLE, World Permaculture Forum and Bioneers. Her work has been profiled recently in Fast Company, The Guardian, “Act for the Planet”, TV series, which aired around the world.
Michael Hannigan, President of Give Something Back, Inc.
Michael Hannigan is President of Give Something Back, Inc., California’s largest independent B to B office supply company. After a successful career in the office equipment industry, he co-founded Give Something Back in 1991. Modeled on Newman’s Own food company, GSB’s profits are donated to non-profit groups selected by its customers and employees. GSB’s Oakland, California headquarters is powered by 50kw of solar energy. The company is a Certified and Founding B-Corporation, an Alameda County Certified Green Business, and recently converted to a Benefit Corporation under California’s new corporate legal framework. GSB has garnered dozens of awards including Corporate Grant maker of the Year, US Small Business Administration Business of the Year, and an award from Paul Newman and John F. Kennedy Jr; Most Generous Companies in America. Hannigan has been featured in media worldwide, including Inc., Business Week, and Forbes magazines. A member of the Social Venture Network, Hannigan lives in Berkeley, California.
Cheryl Dahle, Founder & Executive Director, Future of Fish
Cheryl Dahle is an entrepreneur and journalist who works at the intersection of business and social change. She is founder of the Future of Fish, a non-profit innovation hub that supports early stage companies in the seafood industry to “co-entrepreneur” new business opportunities that support marine conservation. Previously, she was a director at Ashoka, where she distilled knowledge from 2,500 fellows to provide strategic insight to foundations. Dahle spent more than a decade writing about social entrepreneurship and business for publications including Fast Company, The New York Times and CIO. Before her work with non-profits, she was part of an incubation and start-up team to launch an online environmental magazine, for which she helped secure $12 million in venture funding. Dahle also founded and led Fast Company’s Social Capitalist awards, a competition to surface top social entrepreneurs. As the project manager, she helped design an evaluation methodology to measure compelling models for change. Her first book chronicled the story of the first two women in history to cross Antarctica on foot.
Carrie Ferrence, Founder and Owner at Stockbox Grocers
Carrie originally hails from rural Pennsylvania, where she was raised by a 4th-generation corner store owner. While rural life provided her with a strong foundation in social equity, hard work, and long hikes, Carrie discovered her true path by way of a diverse and meaningful career in international development, construction salvage, and education. She is co-owner of Stockbox Grocers, a miniature grocery that is tucked inside a reclaimed shipping container and placed into a parking lot, to bring good food to more people. Carrie brings to her work more than 10 years experience in strategic planning and retail management for small business, and advocacy for non-profits.
Chris Rogers, Founding partner of Point32
Chris Rogers is a founding partner of Point32 (www.point32.com), a Seattle-based real estate development company. Projects include the award-winning Art Stable in South Lake Union, the Bullitt Foundation’s ‘living building’ on Capitol Hill, and the Bethaday Community Learning Space for the Technology Access Foundation in White Center. Chris was formerly the Director of Capital Projects and Government Affairs at the Seattle Art Museum where he oversaw the development of the Olympic Sculpture Park. For eight years, he managed land conservation transactions for the Trust for Public Land, from Puerto Rico to Alaska. Chris has served on numerous non-profit boards, including On the Boards, the Bloedel Reserve, and the People’s Waterfront Coalition. A Seattle native, Chris has an undergraduate degree in Art History from Bowdoin College, and Master’s in Forestry from Yale University.
Scott Bright, CEO and Co-Founder at Synapse Product Development
Scott spent the first years of his engineering career designing Sterling Engine systems for NASA and medical electronics technologies for a variety of innovative companies like Heartstream, Physio-Control, and Philips Medical. Having always been an entrepreneur at heart, Scott co-founded Synapse Product Development a decade ago to provide world-class engineering know-how for brands like Nike, Philips, Samsung, Disney, TomTom and GE. Scott holds multiple patents, a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ohio University, a Masters in Technology Management and an MBA from University of Washington Bothell. Scott lives on a micro-urban-farm with his wife, two daughters, four chickens and one dog. Watch out for him on streets of Seattle as he commutes regularly by electric skateboard.
