With the economic challenges of the past year, the field of entrepreneurship has expanded exponentially presenting opportunities across many market segments. The California Coast Venture Forum (www.ccvf.org) is proud to announce the 13th annual presentation from the California Coast Venture Forum, The Clean Business Investment Summit, on August 13th, 2010 at the Corwin Pavilion at the University of California, Santa Barbara touting an impressive line-up of speakers, engaging panel topics, and exciting, attractive start-ups. Participants range from BMW DesignWorks to Southern California Edison, Pacific Coast Business Times to Harrington Investments, CBIZ to Nutrition Capital Network, and more.

With increased interest from investors, entrepreneurs, and businesses in emerging markets such as renewable energy, clean tech, ethical, green, socially responsible, and sustainable enterprises, the Clean Business Investment Summit aligns the power of capital and clean business principles to build viable, attractive, clean tech, green, socially responsible, sustainable enterprises. The Summit allows clean tech, green, socially responsible, and sustainable enterprises to present their companies to investors looking for viable, ethical
Clean Business opportunities.

In addition to a vibrant array of entrepreneurs presenting, this year’s speakers and dynamic panels include:

• Morning Keynote: Udaiyan Jatar, Founder of the Blue Earth Network and expert on Clean Business and emerging trends;

• “Making Cents of Sustainability: Trends and Opportunities in Clean Business” Featuring Peter Falt, BMW DesignWorks, Doug Mazeffa, Greenopia; Wigs Mendoza, Metropolitan Water District; Ed Quevedo, Paladin Law Group; Jeff Lebow, Southern California Edison; Henry Dubroff, Pacific Coast Business Times; and Gillian Christie, Christie Communications;

• Lunch Keynote: Jeff Klineman, Editor of Beverage Spectrum Magazine and BevNET;

• Start-up Stresses and Successes with Brent Sonnek-Schmelz, MBA, JD;

• “Straight from the Source: VCs and Angels Tell it How it Is” Featuring Alexander Haislip, author of Essentials of Venture Capital, John Wiley & Sons and financial journalist; Frank Foster, DFJ Frontier; Steve Allen, Nutrition Capital Network; John Harrington, Harrington Investments; John Barrymore, 6Pacific Partners; David Jeromin, Golden Mean Capital; Bill Barber, Maverick Angels; and Patrick  Rodriguez, Small Business Administration (SBA);

• Profile of Successful Start-Up: Continental Wind Power introduced by Janice Dunn, California Space Authority.

For more information, please contact Alissa Sears with Christie Communications at Alissa@christiecomm.com or 805-969-3744.

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Source: The Green Living Guy© Pictures Source: Wire Images and Tamara Henry While I was in California on my The Green Living Guy book tour that some of you might had seen pictures on my facebook page, you might have seen pictures of my The Green Living Guy book tour. It was my first opportunity like that ever so rock out and get green answers. Many many thanks to my sponsors A Lot To Say, Inc. for helping me to get out to the West Coast for this book tour. The Environmental Media Association held their 20th Annual Awards Show on October 16, 2010 at the Warner Brothers studios in Los Angeles. The Green Living Guy© was there in attendance, at the Green Carpet, meeting amazing people and loving every second of it (even the constant light schvitz of rain). I sported my favorite new CHARGE t-shirt from A Lot To Say, Inc about electric cars and tux jacket (my calling card). Below is a picture of me at the Green Carpet with my buddy Tamara Henry from Tamara with Green T. One of the more enjoyable parts of the night was when a great singer, Kenny Loggins sang and the whole crowd (well mostly Table 63 and 60) sang along. Table 63, you know who you were!! Also got to sport my new CHARGE shirt from A Lot To Say, Inc. as well. Jeff Skoll (Philanthropist/Entrepreneur) who founded Take Part.com and Participant Media. I was interviewed for that website when I worked with my sponsors A Lot To Say, inc to go to the Sundance Film Festival.

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As many of you know, I am Consulting Series Editor to McGraw-Hill on the Green Guru Guides. I have started an early launch of my book Green Lighting to kick off my book tour. Yup, seven states and a lot of sites. So my original story is on my site The Green Living Guy©. However, here is the most important point. There is a party tomorrow in NYC at the Hiro Ballroom for Green Lighting. I decided to kick off my Green Lighting and Green Guru Guides book tour at an event with Rock the Reactors on July 14th at the Hiro Ballroom in Manhattan. It symbolizes the essence of the book. If we go green with our lighting we will save energy at such a level that we would not need coal, nuclear or natural gas powerplants. Light emitting diodes (LED) like the Endura LED from Philips Lighting provide green solutions. It is so amazing to the industry that, like Mother Earth, Philips is giving us this bulb as the start of a global retrofit. For us, when photographer Courtney Dailey shot this picture with the amazing May Lindstrom whom I have known forever, it's an inspiration. Copyright 2010. Photographer, Courtney Dailey, McGraw-Hill Professional Royal Philips Electronics unveiled its 12 watt EnduraLED 60bulb a few weeks ago, the industry's first LED replacement for a 60 watt incandescent light bulb. They will be in stores in the fall. Shown for the first time here at the Lightfair International tradeshow, it marks an important breakthrough in the use of LED lighting technology in everyday applications. Consumers will now have an LED alternative to the most commonly used incandescent bulb, which will deliver up to 80% energy savings and last 25 times longer than its century-old predecessor. Recently, the state of Vermont voted not to renew Entergy's license to operate the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. On April 2nd, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation followed suit by denying Entergy a new water permit for Indian Point.

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