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Andy Funk: Entrepreneur Turned Socially Conscious Venture Capitalist

By ecofrenzy | Published: December 11, 2008

The story of Andy Funk left me impressed, amazed, envious and motivated. I think it will do the same for you. Funk moved to the US from Germany at the age of 19. Just six years later, without a formal college education, he had founded and sold 3 companies, and then became the youngest founding [...]

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Huddler: A Platform for Green Knowledge Sharing my Mom Could Use

By ecofrenzy | Published: December 1, 2008

At first glance, Huddler.com may seem to be just another social networking site, but I would contend that this is not the case.  Huddler is a well thought-out, elegantly integrated “social commerce” community platform for user-generated content, reviews, discussion forums, Wikis , videos and more.  I had a chance to sit down with Dan Gill, [...]

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The Key to the Gap's Sustainability Success: An Interview with Kindley Walsh-Lawlor

By ecofrenzy | Published: November 26, 2008

It is one thing to start a green by design eco-fashion company, and an entirely different thing to direct a ~$16B clothing retailer that employs 150,000 people to reduce its environmental impact and operate more sustainably. This is exactly the job of Kindley Walsh-Lawlor, Gap Inc’s Senior Director of Social Responsibility and Environmental Affairs. I [...]

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Interview with Dan Gill, CEO and Co-Founder of Huddler

By ecofrenzy | Published: November 7, 2008

“Giving passionate, knowledgeable people a platform and a voice” Combine people, products, and passion… mix in user-generated content, product reviews and discussions… and you have an ambitious web site called Huddler, that aims to create a “social commerce” community. In this interview, “chief Huddler” Dan Gill shares with us how he started the business and [...]

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Interview with Kindley Walsh-Lawlor, Senior Director of Social Responsibility and Environmental Affairs with Gap Inc.

By ecofrenzy | Published: October 28, 2008

Listen to the podcast or read the full transcript here. If you’re ever shopping for a new article of clothing at Gap, Banana Republic or Old Navy (all brands owned by parent company Gap Inc.), on the way to the cash register you may be wondering in the back of your mind how much progress [...]

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Interview with Jared Blumenfeld: Mobilizing San Francisco's Sustainability Movement

By ecofrenzy | Published: October 19, 2008

Listen to my interview with Jared Blumenfeld, Director of San Francisco’s Department of the Environment.  You can listen to the podcast, read the transcript or just read the highlights on Green Business Innovators: http://www.greenbusinessinnovators.com/interview-jared-blumenfeld-san-francisco-department-of-environment “Mobilizing San Francisco to be a More Sustainable City” 80% of the world’s CO2 comes from cities. So strong action by [...]

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Preserve: Disrupting product design status quo, holding earth in highest regard

By ecofrenzy | Published: October 1, 2008

I got a chance to speak with Eric Hudson, founder and CEO of Recycline, the parent company behind Preserve, to learn more about his unique environmentally focused consumer products company.  In the early 90′s Hudson wanted to start a company that would “treat earth’s resources as respectfully, responsibly and efficiently” as possible.  At the time recycling [...]

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Start-up of the week: Distributed World Power (DWP)

By ecofrenzy | Published: September 9, 2008

Idealab-birthed, LA-based, Distributed World Power is an early stage start-up aimed at creating low-cost energy generation tools to provide off-grid power in emerging markets. DWP was founded in response to the uneasy truth that “Half of all people alive today do not have adequate access to inexpensive electricity. One in four does not have any [...]

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Green Business Innovators/Interview with Tom Szaky

By ecofrenzy | Published: September 4, 2008

I recently started working with a great site called Green Business Innovators. I will be doing interviews with top sustainable business leaders and environmental thinkers and posting podcasts and other pieces on this site a few times a month. I will keep ecofrenzy updated on these happenings. I recently posted the transcript to my interview [...]

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Jared Blumenfeld, Director of SF Dept of the Environment, aims to apply city's learnings across the globe

By ecofrenzy | Published: September 3, 2008

Jared Blumenfeld has one of the most important environmental leadership roles in San Francisco, a city which he says is “in the top 10 on the planet that have thought about how to become more sustainable and started actually doing it.” Blumenfeld is Director of San Francisco’s Department of the Environment, which provides environmental policy [...]

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