POC12-172

Financing your small business

Speakers: Sean Murphy, Inner City Advisors; Kelly Lovlien, Working Solutions; Alejandro Velez, Back to the Roots; Speakers presented by - Salvador Menjivar, Executive Director, One PacificCoast Foundation

Do you know the appropriate financing and business training options for your small business? Have you been denied for a bank loan and don’t know where to turn? Are you a start-up or growing business struggling to access capital? This session provides information and resources to help you find the right type of capital that your small business needs to start or grow. It will also introduce you to business training resources that can take your business to the next level.

MP3

$7.00

$7.00

POC12-122

Economic development for our communities – the potential of decentralized energy systems

Speakers: Al Weinrub, Coordinator, Local Clean Energy Alliance; Speaker presented by - Carroll Moore, Organizer, East Bay Green Drinks

Localized energy systems can address both the climate crisis and economic crisis of our cities, rolling back greenhouse gas emissions and providing clean energy jobs. This presentation explores the economic and social benefits decentralized energy system can provide to our communities, and the kind of policies and program needed to develop such a system.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$10.00

$10.00

POC12-162

Alternative workplace models – saving money, energy, and promoting creativity and collaboration

Speakers: Matthew Bauer, BetterWorld Telecom; (Invited) Ian Gover, Better Workplace

Roughly 3% of the U.S. workforce telecommutes a majority of the time today, if that number was 50% of those who can, we would cut our carbon emissions in ½, while saving 453 million barrels of oil, reduce 2.1 billion hours wasted in traffic. This session explores the many ways that companies and individuals can bring themselves up to speed with the knowledge worker/broadband economy wave, especially here in the uber connected Bay Area.

MP3

$7.00

$7.00

POC12-103

Sustainable communities – advancing clean energy, water efficiency, and smart growth in the East Bay

Speakers: Andy Katz, Director, East Bay Municipal Utility District; Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, Representing the 14th District, State of California

Join key public officials in a conversation about the opportunities for the East Bay to thrive with a sustainable economy and environment. The crisis of climate change calls for resilient local action – hear what our representatives are doing to increase clean energy and energy efficiency at the state and local levels. The East Bay and the city of Oakland is facing a crossroads, with the elimination of redevelopment agencies, but with opportunities for an urban renaissance – how can cities move forward and encourage livable communities and sustainable transportation?

MP3

$7.00

$7.00

POC12-112

How can we build a more resilient society?

Speakers: Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute

MP3

$7.00

$7.00

POC12-163

Complementary and alternative currencies to the US dollar

Speakers: Guillaume Lebleu, Bernal Bucks; Jessica Nowlan, Oakland Grown Gift Card; Charlie Rebich, Oakland Acorn; Mira Luna, BACE Time Bank; Moderator: Amy Barr, Sustainable Business Alliance

Where national currency is scarce or there is a lack of market support for community services, local currencies can facilitate better flows of resources and energy by matching unmet needs with underutilized resources. Investing in community currency means investing in your community’s health and real wealth for the long haul, and therefore our own security and happiness. Democratically-controlled local money can be a powerful tool in relocalization to shift economic power and transform the economy into a more caring and cooperative one.

MP3

$7.00

$7.00

Subtotal

$45.00