Teens Turning Green

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Please Join us on February 6 + 7th, 2009
Marin Art and Garden Center, Ross, California

We invite teens, teachers, parents, and community members from around the country to attend the 4th Annual Teens Turning Green National Summit. Led by Campaign members the Summit will feature two days of panels, workshops, planning and discussions with visionary leaders. Our goal is to educate and inspire teens and give them the tools to start a Teens Turning Green chapter in their schools and communities as they aspire toward  a greener lifestyle. 

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Program

Friday, February 6

6:00 –9:00pm Welcome | Dinner | Keynote Speakers | Q & A
6:00-6:30: Registration and Introductions
6:30-7:00: Dinner with Keynote Speakers and Panelists
7:00-7:15: slide Show and Campaign Introductions
7:15-8:45: Keynote Speakers:

David Steinman, Environmentalist and Author, Diet for a Poisoned Planet
Sloan Barnett, Author, Green Goes with Everything
Jeremiah McElwee, Senior Global Whole Body Coordinator, Whole Foods Market 

Saturday, February 7

9:00 Registration
9:30-10:00 am Breakfast
10:00-10:30 Teens Turning Green Presentation
(Teens for Safe Cosmetics and Teens for Healthy Schools)

10:45 am -11:45 pm: Panel Discussions  (Select one of two panels)

Panel One: Your Body, Your Health: Demystifying the Science

Teen Moderators: Carly Wertheim and Danielle Littman
Panelists: Dr Julia Smith, M.D., Ph.D., Director, NYU Cancer Institute Breast Cancer Screening and   Prevention Program, Lynne Cohen Breast Cancer Preventive Care Program at NYU
Renee Sharp,  Director, California Office, Environmental Working Group 
Stacy Malkan, Author, Not Just a Pretty Face, Co-Founder, National Campaign for Safe Cosmetics

Panel Two: Communications: A Tool for Change

Teen Moderators: Emily Packer and Laura Rose Brylowski

Panelists: Mark Schapiro, Editorial Director, Center for Investigative Reporting & Author, Exposed
Kristin Bender, Journalist | Reporter
Mark Stefanski, Biology Teacher, Marin Academy

Rachel Sarnoff, Founder and CEO, Ecostilleto.com

Noon-1:00pm: Panel Discussions (Select one of two panels)

Panel Three: Telling your Story: Moving People with your Message

Teen Moderators: Darya Watnick and Morgan Abbett
Panelists:  Jeremiah McElwee, Senior Global Whole Body Coordinator, Whole Foods Market  

Senator Mark Leno, California State Senator
David Steinman, Environmentalist and Author, Diet for a Poisoned Planet  
Paul Schramski, Executive Director, Pesticide Watch  

Jorge Lee, Founder, Marin House Cleaning

Marci Zaroff, Founder, Under the Canopy
John Masters, Founder, John Masters Organics

2:00 – 4:00 pm : Roundtable strategies with expert panelists | Chapter Building | Mother's Roundtable

Teens for Healthy Schools

Teens for Safe Cosmetics/ Teens Turning Green

 4:00 – 5:30 pm Green Spa | Teens Turning Green Roundtable

5:30 – 6:30 pm Dinner + Farewell 

Also featuring the Green Spa, gift bags, raffle prizes and suptuous organic meals

Admission is FREE with prior registration

Please inquire about a home stay with local campaign members or if you need a scholorship for transportation.

Listed in alphabetical order

Sloan Barnett, Author “Green Goes With Everything”  (Keynote Speaker)
Sloan is a regular contributor to NBC's Today show and the Green Editor for KNTV, in San Francisco. She has been a television and print journalist for more than ten years, and wrote a popular consumer advice column for New York's Daily News for nearly a decade prior to authoring Green Goes With Everything. The book is a thoroughly researched, easy to read how to handbook to “clean up your home” and live a healthier lifestyle. The mother of three and dedicated consumer advocate, Sloan lives in San Francisco.

Kristin Bender, Journalist, Reporter
Kristin has been a professional journalist for 15 years, winning several awards for her reporting and writing. At the Oakland Tribune for nine years, she covers the environment, city governments, breaking news, education and investigative stories in Berkeley, Alameda and Oakland. She freelances for Maxim, Shape, E-The Environmental Magazine, Life & Style, Star, Bay Area Parent and Womensenews.com. She is a graduate of the San Francisco State School of Journalism, and started her career in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also coaches student journalists under a program run by the Bay Area News Group. Kristin lives in the East Bay with her husband.

Jorge Lee, Founder and CEO, Marin House Cleaning L.L. C

After graduating from Cornell University in 2007, Jorge returned to his native Mill Valley to establish a nontoxic residential cleaning service. Switching out toxic cleaning products for their greener counterparts is significantly healthier for families and reduces the pollution that enters the environment. He has been featured in the Marin Independent Journal and is slated to appear in Marin Magazine’s February edition. Marin House Cleaning develops all of their cleaning products in-house, and is currently the only Bay Area Green Business Program certified housecleaning business in Marin. 

Mark Leno, California State Senator

Starting his first senate term in January 2009, Senator Mark Leno represents the 3rd District, including Marin, and portions of San Francisco and Sonoma Counties. He is the first openly gay man elected to the State Senate, and one of the first two openly gay men ever elected to the Assembly. Prior to his election to the Senate, he served six years in the State Assembly and four and a half years on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

While in the Assembly, Leno fought for better schools and access to higher education, a cleaner and sustainable environment, single-payer universal affordable and quality health care, improved transportation, renewable energy, safer streets and equal rights for all Californians. His AB 849 in 2005 and AB 43 in 2007 were the first two marriage equality bills passed by both houses of any state legislature in the United States allowing LGBT couples to marry.  

John Masters, Founder, John Masters Organics

Jeremiah McElwee, Senior GlobalWhole BodyCoordinator at Whole Foods Market (Keynote Speaker)

Jeremiah oversees all aspects of Whole Body for all Whole Foods Market’s nationally, a job that entails managing product selection, working with stores to develop innovative concepts and helping major manufacturers/vendors with successful product development. Jeremiah stays on top of consumer demands and trends through his work with cutting edge researchers, companies and ethnobotanists to explore what is now and next. He is the inspiration behind the recent ground breaking partnership between WFM & Teens for Safe Cosmetics in the creation of the Teens Turning Green Collection exclusively at WFM nationally focusing attention on the health and well being of our next generation. 

Rachel Sarnoff, Founder and CEO, Ecostilleto.com
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff is a mother of three who left a successful career as a publicist to follow her dream of helping women “stiletto-size” their carbon footprints. She blogs as Mommy Greenest at http://mommygreenest.wordpress.com and publishes www.ecostiletto.com with daily updates on eco-friendly fashion, beauty, lifestyle and parenting. Rachel has appeared on “Access Hollywood,” “Hollywood Green” and “Good Day L.A.” and regularly writes and speaks about living an eco-friendly life; she’s also working on book called Mommy Greenest: Changing the World, One Small Step At A Time. But her favorite challenges are the eco-swag giveaways that she organizes for EcoStiletto at http://www.ecostiletto.com/index.php?/Beauty/Contest/: In 2009, the site is giving away a free pair (or pairs) of eco-friendly shoes worth $500 or more each and every month! 

Renée Sharp, Director of California Office, Environmental Working Group
Renée holds Masters and Bachelors degrees in Biology from Penn State University and Rice University. She first worked as a Senior Analyst for Environmental Working Group on a wide range of environmental health and natural resource issues for eight years before becoming head of the organization's California office in 2008.When not in the office Renée spends most of her time hiking, climbing, skiing and rafting, and believes that the US now has an unprecedented opportunity to regain world leadership on environmental issues.

Mark Schapiro, Editorial Director, Center for Investigative Reporting & Author, Exposed
Mark is Editorial Director of the Center for Investigative Reporting, and author of, EXPOSED. The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for American Power , In the book, Schapiro investigates the response of U.S. transnational corporations to the raising of environmental health standards in Europe. His award-winning environmental stories have appeared in multiple media: in print, for publications such as Harpers, The Nation and the LA Times; on television, where he is a correspondent for PBS’ Frontline/World; and on the public radio program ‘Marketplace’

Paul Schramski, Executive Director, Pesticide Watch
Paul is the State Director of Pesticide Watch and Pesticide Watch Education Fund and manages the day-to-day operations of the organization. He previously worked for Toxics Action Center in New England. Paul is a graduate of the Green Corps field school for environmental organizing. He also serves on the Board of Common Frequency, a California-based media justice nonprofit

Julia A. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., Director, NYU Cancer Institute Breast Cancer Screening and Prevention Program, Lynne Cohen Breast Cancer Preventive Care Program, NYU
Julia is a medical oncologist and scientist whose particular interest is in risk assessment for breast cancer with the goal of increasing surveillance, early detection, and prevention. She has received numerous awards, sits on medical advisory boards for clinical and scientific research, and lectures and speaks around the country. Julia graduated from the New York University School of Medicine's joint MD/PhD program in 1980, with a doctorate in cell biology. She then did her internal medicine training at Harvard Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in hematology-oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Mark Stefanski, Science Teacher, Marin Academy

Mark has taught high school science for the past 23 years, and is currently a Biology instructor at Marin Academy in San Rafael where he holds the H.D. Thoreau Faculty Chair, a position that promotes education for sustainability and interdisciplinary teaching and learning. A recipient of the Gustav Ohaus Award from the National Science Teachers Association for innovative teaching strategies in high school science. Mark is passionate about working with teenagers to assist them in gaining a deeper sense of self, and he facilitates programs, including wilderness programs, that help teens to identify core values, fields of interests, and personal skills. He also consults with the Teens for Healthy Schools program.  

David Steinman, Environmentalist and Author, Diet for a Poisoned Planet (Keynote Speaker)
David is an environmentalist, journalist, consumer health advocate, publisher and author. His major books include Diet for a Poisoned Planet (1990, 2007), The Safe Shopper’s Bible (1995), Living Healthy in a Toxic World (1996), and Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save the Planet Earth from Global Warming Meltdown (2007), which introduces a concept he calls Green Patriotism.  

Olowo-n’djo Tchala,  Founder, Alaffia

Olowon-d'djo, a West African by birth and his American wife Rose ( they met when she was in the Peace Corp in Togo ) , founded Alaffia  Sustainable Skincare. Alaffia is one of the most innovative and original eco body companies in the "green" world. The products are made with Shea butter, a natural renewable resource and other indigenous ingredients that come from the people of the Agbanga Karite/Alaffia Shea Butter Women’s Cooperative bringing income to the people of this community in Togo, West Africa. Olowo-n'djo has worked hard to bring economic gender equality to the women of Togo as well as making his products fair-trade and sustainable.10% of their sales sales support community enhancement projects in Togo, West Africa. Alaffia has a fabulous product in the Teens Turning Green Collection called Mambo Mango Body Butter.The company is based in Olympia, Washington.   

Marci Zaroff, Founder, Under the Canopy

Marci has a degree from the Haas Business School at UC Berkeley. A vegetarian since the age of 16, Marci co-founded a thriving health and environmental educational center, Aveda Spa  magazine, and an organic cafe in New York City, known today as “The Institute for Integrative Nutrition”. After a decade in the natural/organic food and beauty world, Zaroff recognized the “missing link” in the wellness equation, and seized the opportunity to launch leading organic + sustainable fiber lifestyle brand “Under the Canopy”. She pioneered the market for ECOfashion®, a term she coined and trademarked in 1996. Zaroff is an internationally recognized visionary and authority in organic fiber fashion and home products and has created a unique development, distribution and monitoring business model to ensure that the process and the products remain pure and authentic.

Get inspired:  Watch our Video  from the 3rd Annual Teen Summit!

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