Induction Ceremony & Conference 2011

The Event

Inaugural Induction Ceremony & Conference

March 25, 2011 – 9AM to 4PM
This event will be streamed LIVE on the internet for your viewing pleasure.

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5200 N. Lake Road
Merced, CA 95343

Welcome to the IGIHOF Inaugural Induction Ceremony and Conference. This year’s inaugural event is special in many ways, but none more special than the fact that it is the very first. It has taken over three years of from the time IGIHOF was first launched to realize our vision.

UC Merced could not have been a more ideal venue. A LEED certified campus located in the majestic California San Joaquin Valley with a wonderful team of people lead by Mark Maxwell.

One of our goals was to hold a green conference that was affordable, informative and special for the over 30 nominees being honored for excellence in the Green Industry.

It is our wish that you have an enjoyable and educational experience while sharing the excitement of our induction ceremony. Thank you for attending and please come back next year.

Live Green!

Sam Geil
Chairman, Board of Directors

Host Mark Keppler talks with Sam Geil about the inaugural International Green Industry Hall of Fame induction ceremony and conference at UC Merced on March 25.

Tony Oliveira will be performing at the VIP Reception & Dinner. For more information regarding Tony, visit his website at www.tonytoliveira.com.

The weather in the San Joaquin Valley in March is unpredictable, but consistently sunny and mild. The majority of the conference will be inside so there will be little exposure to the weather.

The day will start with registration at 9:00am in the Joseph E. Gallo Wellness Center and GYM. A light Continental breakfast provided by the UC Merced catering team will available and part of the Green Package ($50).

Your registration package (tote bag) will include a program, goodies and materials provided by the sponsors.

We have gone to great lengths to use materials that are post consumer and biodegradable as much as possible to minimize our carbon footprint.

The conference begins at 10:00am and you will be able to visit with the Exhibitors and be introduced to Bob Hilton our MC.

At 11:00am the induction ceremony will start at the Lakireddy Auditorium at the Leo & Dottie Kolligian Library. Only those who have purchased the “Green Package” will be admitted.

The ceremony is scheduled to go until 1:00pm at which time lunch will be served in the Joseph E. Gallo Recreation and Wellness Center. Lunch will again be provided by the UC Merced catering team featuring health conscious food.

The campus tours and the networking sessions will start at 2:00 and be given by UC Merced students and faculty until 4:00pm.

The conference concludes at 4:00pm.

Those people who purchase the VIP Ticket will be treated to a authentic Italian (Tuscan) dinner with wine paring at De Angelo’s restaurant in Merced. The reception begins at 5:00pm featuring a silent and live GREEN auction lead by the world famous Steve Haworth of Berkeley CA. Steve is a renown auctioneer who only performs auctions for charities and nonprofit organizations. For those of you who are contemplating lodging, the Ramada is across the parking lot from De Angelo’s.

Congratulatory Letters

• ClearSky
• John Hofmeister

Roz Savage

Ray Anderson – Remarks to IGIHOF

Susan Frank interviews Driptech Representative Jessica Martin

Nominees

Nominees

• ACORE

  ACORE is an organization of member companies and institutions that are dedicated to moving renewable energy into the mainstream of America’s economy, ensuring the success of the renewable energy industry while helping to build a sustainable and independent energy future for the nation.

• City of Fresno Recycling Program

  The mission of the Solid Waste division for the City of Fresno is to ensure the preservation of the community’s environment. In doing so, the City of Fresno has annually increased their diversion rate, and spearheaded the effort to meet existing and future goals.

• ClearSky Climate Solutions

  Clearsky Climate Solutions, designs and develops projects that work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This includes significant work in Central and South America, that involve working with local populations and native tree species. Clearsky brokers carbon credits for a cleaner brighter future.

• Coto Consulting

  Coto Consulting, Inc. began in 2009 as a woman-owned, small business enterprise to provide environmental consulting services to private and public sector clients throughout the United States.

• Driptech

  Driptech’s mission is to alleviate poverty by creating extremely affordable; water efficient irrigation solutions for small plot farmers in developing nations. Driptech is getting ready to tackle one of the world’s biggest resource management problems by helping one poor farmer at a time.

• Duke Smart Home Program

  The Duke Smart Home program is a residential dorm and research laboratory that acts as a living laboratory for both undergraduates and graduates, who are focused on sustainable research. Using a cross-disciplinary approach, the Home allows for students to design, create, and implement sustainable answers to our current world.

• Eco Promotions

  Eco Promotional Products, Inc. (EPP) is dedicated to supplying a breadth of environmentally responsible merchandise to businesses and individuals interested in sustainability and respecting our natural resources.

• Glen Roberts

  Glen Roberts is the U.S. Commercial Service Export Assistance Center Director in Bakersfield, California. The Bakersfield Export Assistance Center is part of a global network of 157 offices worldwide and operates under the umbrella of the International Trade Administration; U. S. Department of Commerce. He provides all aspects of export assistance to any company wishing to expand their products and services globally. He is a former Team Leader of the Renewable Energy and Alternative Fuels for the U.S. Commercial Service National Energy Team. His current projects in the Renewable energy / alternative fuel sectors include Biodiesel into India, Pakistan, China, Philippines, Thailand and Turkey.

• Green Apple Horse Network

  The Green Apple Horse Network has dedicated itself to bringing cutting edge news and information and how to transform the current equine practices into a more sustainable, environmentally friendly, industry.

• Green2Gold

  Green2Gold’s mission is to develop, protect, mentor and rapidly commercialize new energy and environmental technologies, sustainable enterprises, products and services for the consumer, government and business market places. This environmental incubator is continually searching for new ideas and methods to transform the current and future needs of the world.

• Grundfos

  Grundfos, an industrial water pump supplier, has made taken it a priority to combat the Climate challenge and become a solution rather than a hindrance. Grundfos’ strategy includes a strong focus towards innovation and product development.

• Interface Global – Ray Anderson

  Interface’s vision is be the first company that, by its deeds, shows the entire industrial world what sustainability is in all its dimensions: People, process, product, place and profits – by 2020 – and in doing so we will become restorative through the power of influence.

  Featured TED Talk – Ray Anderson on the Business Logic of Sustainability

• Josh Dorfman (aka The Lazy Environmentalist)

  A noted blogger and multimedia guru, Josh Dorfman’s blog provides green solutions to businesses, organizations, and individuals through the utilization of various forms of media all while using a witty and often hilarious speaking method.

• Leafware LLC

  Leafware provides a sustainable natural product by preserving nature and life on earth through the creation of dinnerware manufactured from fallen leaves. A unique eco-friendly and sustainable approach to single use dinnerware.

• Net Impact

  Net Impact, a membership organization that brings together MBA, graduate students and a select group of undergraduates and young professionals together to network, learn and take action on socially-responsible business issues.

• NiLA Environmental Lighting

  NiLA provides TV and film lighting in a environmentally sustainable way. By using LED lights, that require less electricity and are 100% sustainable, NiLA provides a solution to a problem that is often overlooked by others.

• Philanthropy by Design

  Philanthropy By Design (PBD) is an award-winning 501(c)3 organization of design industry professionals who volunteer their talents to renovate the interior environments of community service organizations. PBD’s pro bono work benefits thousands of underserved Bay Area residents; at-risk youth, abused women, seniors, AIDS patients and the homeless, bringing them hope, inspiration and comfort.

• Resources for Community Development (RCD)

  Resources for Community Development (RCD), creates or preserves affordable housing for low-income families through the use of green building techniques and energy efficiency modifications.

• Ritu Primlani

  The Thimmakka Certified Green Business (TCGB) program enables businesses to implement easy, cost-efficient practices that reduce their environmental impact, save them money, integrate them into city services, and expand their businesses by generating community and government goodwill.

• Roz Savage – Ocean Rower

  Roz Savage is a world-renowned rower and environmental activist. Savage become the first solo women ever to compete in the 3,000 mile Atlantic race, and the sixth solo women to row across an ocean. Roz is also a United Nations Climate Hero.

  Roz Savage ‘Thank You’ Video

• Runka.com

  Runka’s goal is to provide one stop shopping for all environmentally friendly products. Runka is doing their best to become a source for anything that promotes a healthier environment and a better way of life.

• Tom & Carol Braford

  Tom and Carol have been advocates for ‘Cohousing,’ a style of living that involves private home ownership centered around a shared space where children and families. Their housing project increased relationships between others while also lessening dependence on resources.

• USGBC

  The U.S. Green Building Council is a 501(c)3 non-profit community of leaders working to make green buildings available to everyone within a generation. Their nomination is based on their continued efforts to educate, train and transform the building community through sustainable practices.

Event Information & Schedule

• Keynote Speakers & Special Guests

Keynote Speakers & Special Guests

Rod Diridon, Sr.

Executive Director

Mineta Transportation Institute

Since 1995, Rod Diridon, Sr., has been executive director of the Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI), a transportation policy research center created in 1991 by Congress. He is known as the “father” of modern transit service in Silicon Valley and has chaired more than 100 international, national, state and local programs, most related to transit and the environment. He frequently provides legislative testimony on sustainable transportation issues.

Mr. Diridon was appointed in 2001 and 2006 by Governors Davis and Schwarzenegger, respectively, to the California High Speed Rail Authority Board of which he is chair emeritus. He helped found and is chair emeritus of the American Public Transportation Association’s ( APTA) High Speed and Intercity Rail Committee and National High Speed Rail Corridors’ Coalition. He served as president of the national Council of University Transportation Centers.

In 1992, he served as the chair of APTA in Washington DC and for a decade as North American vice chair of the International Transit Association (UITP) in Brussels. In 1976, he chaired the state’s first successful half-cent sales tax for transit and subsequently chaired a state-wide and five successful regional transportation financing and bond elections.

In 1996 he founded and chaired the Transportation Research Board’s study panel, “Combating Global Warming through Sustainable Transportation Policy”. He advised the Federal Transit Administration and in 1995 chaired the National Research Council’s Transportation Research Board’s Transit Oversight and Project Selection Committee. He has provided keynotes, especially for high speed rail and sustainability, in more than 50 US cities and for a dozen international conferences, and he has published numerous related articles. He has driven electric cars since 1996 and his home’s photovoltaic array is a net contributor to the grid.

His political career began in 1971 as the youngest person ever elected to the Saratoga City Council. He retired in 1995 because of the adoption of term limits after completing six terms as chair of both the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and the Transit Board. He is the only person to have chaired the San Francisco Bay Area’s (119 cities, 27 transit agencies, and 9 counties) three regional governments: the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, and the Association of Bay Area Governments. He chaired nine successful rail system development project boards. The main train station was renamed the “San Jose Diridon Station” upon his retirement from public office.

After receiving a BS in accounting and MSBA in 1963 in statistics from San Jose State University, he served as a naval officer during two Vietnam combat tours. In 1968 he founded the Decision Research Institute which was sold in 1977 after his election.

Mr. Diridon has two successful children, Rod Jr. and Mary Margaret, and two grandchildren. He is married to Dr. Gloria Duffy, former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and now president and CEO of the Commonwealth Club of California.

Thomas E. Lollini, FAIA, LEED AP

Campus Architect
Associate Vice Chancellor Physical Planning, Design & Construction
University of California, Merced

B. S. Architecture, University of Michigan, 1972
Master of Architecture, University of Michigan, 1975

Topic: Building the 21st Century Campus

Tom is responsible for the planning, design and development of all campus facilities at the University of California’s first new campus in 40 years. Sustainable design and operations have been a hallmark of UC Merced from the initial stages of planning, when LEED Silver Minimum certification for all buildings was set as a policy. The 2009 Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) has received the California Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award for Comprehensive Land Use Planning, the Association of Environmental Professionals 2010 Award for an Outstanding Planning Document, and the American Institute of Architects California Council Merit Award for Urban Design.

UC Merced’s LRDP establishes LEED Gold certification as a minimum for all buildings, and a Triple Zero Commitment to achieving Zero Net Energy, Zero Waste to Landfill, and Zero Carbon Emissions by 2020, when the campus is expected to reach 10,000 students. Campus facilities are using 50% less energy than comparable benchmarks, and the campus presently meets 60% of its peak power loads, and 20% of its overall energy needs through a 1MW on-site solar array. The campus is using 40% less water than comparable facilities.

Prior to UC Merced, Tom led physical and environmental planning at UC Berkeley for ten years. His work at UC Berkeley has been honored with local and national awards from the AIA, ALSA, the California Preservation Foundation, The Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association, and the Governor of California. While at UC Berkeley Tom served as visiting faculty for planning and design studios at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, including the Tianjin Studio, which developed transit-oriented development guidelines and sustainable planning principles for China’s third largest city.

Prior to UC Berkeley, Tom led new town planning efforts in North Africa and Southeast Asia, and played a major role in downtown revitalization plans for several major California cities.

Tom has been a leader in the area of sustainable development within his profession for 25 years, and has served on numerous award juries, including the National AIA Urban Design Honor Awards and the California Local Government Commission Ahwanee Awards for sustainable design.

Donald Simon – Attorney

Partner, Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean, LLP

Topic: California: America’s Competitive Edge in the New Energy Economy

Donald is a national leader and speaker for the green economy and has devoted himself to creating the framework necessary for incenting business to become the engine of environmental sustainability. He co-founded the two organizations that have made California the global green building leader, the U.S. Green Building Council’s Northern California Chapter and Build It Green. He is general counsel to both organizations, as well as the California Solar Energy Industry Association and Efficiency First. Donald also hosts the West Coast Green, the leading conference and trade show for green innovation. On the international level, he teamed with the City of San Francisco in 2005 to organize and host the United Nations’ largest international conference of local government leaders to address urban environmental sustainability issues.

Active in environmental issues for many years, Donald previously worked for Environmental Defense Fund to develop the first international framework for cross-border air pollution offsets. He has also represented various organizations on issues related to old-growth forest protection and logging concerns, including Sierra Club, Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, the California Heritage Tree Initiative and Buckeye Forest Council. In law school, he served as president of the Ohio State University Environmental Law Association.

Bob Hilton – Master of Ceremony

Master of Ceremony, Bob Hilton, is no stranger to the concept of “Going Green”. Although recognized for his body of work in the broadcasting industry as a television news anchor, talk show host, commercial spokesman and the voice or host of many nationally televised game shows (Let’s Make a Deal, Pyramid, Win-Lose-or-Draw, Newlywed Game,The Price is Right, Truth or Consequences and many others), Bob and his wife Joni were thinking green more than 12 years ago. That’s when they developed an environmentally safe cleaner, Holy Cow, which they took to market to rave reviews and achieved nationwide distribution. They sold the company two years ago and are now in development on more green based ideas. Bob is also involved in that “other” green field, financials, associating himself with New York Life.

Steve Haworth

With over thirteen years of experience as the principal of Charity Auction Fundraising, LLC, Steve Haworth has been successfully helping nonprofits, endowments and schools raise money to maintain their current levels of service or to expand their reach to those in need. Steve is not only the consummate professional auctioneer, able to conduct high energy ( and high revenue) live auctions, but he also provides a unique service in his role as a consultant, understanding and assisting charitable organizations in all business aspects of their “gala” events. In the past twelve months Mr. Haworth has conducted live auctions for over sixty organizations, attended by over 20,000 high net worth donors at events held at major venues throughout the Bay Area and beyond. In the process he helped these groups raise over $14 million. Notable events at which Mr. Haworth displayed his unique talents include the 2010 GRAMMY MusiCares Person of the Year Awards honoring Neil Young, the 2010 Tug MrGraw Foundation “Tim McGraw and Friends” gala-concert and the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospital for Children Open.

Charity Auction Fundraising, LLC provides the following services to charitable organizations:

• Professional auctioneering services
• Revenue stream development consulting
• Auction lot development consulting

Susan Frank – Event Correspondent

Susan joined The Better World Group – a firm recognized for its background and expertise in policy and communications strategy – in January 2008 as Executive Vice President and is based in the company’s Silicon Valley office in Mountain View, California. She is known statewide for her expertise in public policy development, coalition management, and nonprofit lobbying/advocacy having served as CEO and in several senior-level roles in nonprofit organizations over the last 20 years. From 1999 to 2007, Susan served in a variety of roles for the Bay Area-based Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation including as President & CEO and Vice President, Public Policy. Prior to joining the Kirsch Foundation, Susan served eight years as President & CEO of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce.

Susan has been a member of the Board of Directors for the California League of Conservation Voters (CLCV) since November 2005. Previously, she served on the Board of Directors for the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research and Coalition for Clean Air, as well as serving on a variety of other local, nonprofit boards of directors. In 2009, Susan was recognized by Breathe California for her management of a statewide coalition of environmental, public health and environmental justice advocates that successfully campaigned for a strong diesel truck and bus pollution regulation. She was also the recipient of the YWCA of Silicon Valley’s TWIN (Tribute to Women) Award in 2010. Susan is a graduate of Stanford University.

Sponsors & Exhibitors

The following logos represent our fantastic sponsors. Events like ours is simply not possible without the support of private and public organizations. If you would like to become a sponsor, please call Shauna Dickinson at 559-228-6155 Monday-Friday from 9am to 4pm PST. You can also visit our Registration page for pricing and sponsorship options. IGIHOF is a 501(c)3 non-profit and a portion of your donation is tax deductible.

Sponsors

Gold Event Sponsor

Silver – $2,000 Sponsors

Bronze – In-kind

Media Sponsors

Exhibitors

Thank You!

• Valley Sanitary Supply for sponsoring the lanyards and tote bags.
• Clearsky Climate Solutions for the Carbon Footprint Calculator.
• DERCO Foods for sponsoring the Breakfast.

Heroes & Volunteers

The IGIHOF Board of Directors is eternally grateful to all the people who have volunteered their precious time to make our inaugural event successful. We would like to dedicate this page solely to those heroes and volunteers and thank them for their hard work and dedication.

Contact & Maps

UC Merced Campus

Google Map
5200 N. Lake Road
Merced, CA 95343

(Due to construction on “G” street in Merced, the city has identified detours around the construction area. You can take the Yosemite or G street exits to get to UC Merced, but allow an extra 5 minutes to your trip.)

DeAngelo’s Restaurant

DeAngelo’s Restaurant is co-located at the Ramada Inn location on Childs Ave.

Lodging

Ramada – Website – Map
2010 East Childs Ave
Merced, CA 95340
209-723-3121 (T)
209-723-0127 (F)

Special Convention Rate:

Single (One Queen Suite) $75 per night plus taxes
Double (Two Queen standard room) $69 per night plus taxes

Marriott Courtyard – Website – Map
750 Motel Drive
Merced, CA 95341
209-725-1221 (T)
209-725-1222 (F)

$99 Flat Rate – Just mention you are a UC Merced event attendee.

REGISTER

Thank you for registering for the IGIHOF Inaugural Induction Ceremony and Conference. The IGIHOF Board of Directors appreciates your support. IGIHOF is a California based 501(c)3 non profit organization serving the International Green Industries since 2008. All proceeds go to fund the annual induction ceremony and conference, and annual operating budget. We have no paid full or part time staff and the majority of the work is accomplished by college interns, highly motivated volunteers and overall great people. Enjoy the ceremony and conference. Parking is Free… a courtesy of UC Merced.

Friday, March 18, 2011 is the last day for any refunds on tickets for the IC&C Conference.