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Speaker Directory
Go Green Expo would like to thank our distinguished group of speakers.
NYC, 04/17/2009 to 04/19/2009: Click here to download full schedule
** Mariel Hemingway **
Mariel Hemingway will be speaking on Sunday, March 21 at 12:30pm
Mariel Hemingway will be discussing "How to Green Yourself" through living a healthy life style - eating well, slowing down, and creating sacred space. She will also talk about her new book "Mariel Hemingway's Healthy Living from the Inside Out," which is a revolutionary individualized program that teaches us how looking and feeling great are just a few simple choices away. No more bossy diets or impossible exercise routines. Instead, Mariel divides healthy living into four foundational areas where we can isolate the issues we all face and start making the best decisions for our life.
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Mariel Hemingway will be speaking on Sunday, March 21 at 12:30pm
Mariel Hemingway will be discussing "How to Green Yourself" through living a healthy life style - eating well, slowing down, and creating sacred space. She will also talk about her new book "Mariel Hemingway's Healthy Living from the Inside Out," which is a revolutionary individualized program that teaches us how looking and feeling great are just a few simple choices away. No more bossy diets or impossible exercise routines. Instead, Mariel divides healthy living into four foundational areas where we can isolate the issues we all face and start making the best decisions for our life.
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** Nigel Barker **
NIGEL BARKER’S SCREENING OF “A SEALED FATE”
Saturday, April 18, 3:30pm - Q&A with Nigel Barker to follow
BY POPULAR DEMAND: ADDITIONAL SCREENING OF “A SEALED FATE”
Saturday, April 18, 4:45pm
Renowned photographer and director, Nigel Barker travels to the stunning ice floes off the coast of Canada's Eastern shore to film the birth and ensuing hunt of the Harp seal pups. Witness his passion for these beautiful animals in an awe inspiring and often dangerous setting. The film leads you through his 2 week odyssey with the Humane Society of the United States and lets the viewer see for themselves the delight of the greatest mammalian birthing grounds on earth. The film cleverly depicts the hunt in a way that gets the point across without the use of overly graphic imagery. It is a delightful, heart wrenching and soul searching story that brings to light a timely topic.
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NIGEL BARKER’S SCREENING OF “A SEALED FATE”
Saturday, April 18, 3:30pm - Q&A with Nigel Barker to follow
BY POPULAR DEMAND: ADDITIONAL SCREENING OF “A SEALED FATE”
Saturday, April 18, 4:45pm
Renowned photographer and director, Nigel Barker travels to the stunning ice floes off the coast of Canada's Eastern shore to film the birth and ensuing hunt of the Harp seal pups. Witness his passion for these beautiful animals in an awe inspiring and often dangerous setting. The film leads you through his 2 week odyssey with the Humane Society of the United States and lets the viewer see for themselves the delight of the greatest mammalian birthing grounds on earth. The film cleverly depicts the hunt in a way that gets the point across without the use of overly graphic imagery. It is a delightful, heart wrenching and soul searching story that brings to light a timely topic.
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Bob MacLeod
The president and co-founder of Kiss My Face, Bob MacLeod has been creating and distributing natural personal care products for over 25 years. Bob and co-founder Steve Byckiewicz, two long time vegetarians, founded Kiss My Face based on the belief that nature creates the best ingredients. Kiss My Face is dedicated to creating formulations that are potent and effective, by combining natural and organic ingredients to make people look good and feel good. They strive to bring people the best nature has to offer—never at the expense of the planet, their employees or their values—but with honesty, humor and style. A retailer once told them, “Kiss My Face puts a smile in the aisle.”
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The president and co-founder of Kiss My Face, Bob MacLeod has been creating and distributing natural personal care products for over 25 years. Bob and co-founder Steve Byckiewicz, two long time vegetarians, founded Kiss My Face based on the belief that nature creates the best ingredients. Kiss My Face is dedicated to creating formulations that are potent and effective, by combining natural and organic ingredients to make people look good and feel good. They strive to bring people the best nature has to offer—never at the expense of the planet, their employees or their values—but with honesty, humor and style. A retailer once told them, “Kiss My Face puts a smile in the aisle.”
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Brad Holmes
Brad Holmes is a partner at Green Spaces (www.greenspacesny.com), a collaborative work space to launch green entrepreneurs. He is also the director of New York’s first Green Business Competition which is a groundbreaking platform to promote and reward companies that have the potential to revolutionize their industry by creating green jobs while preserving our ecological resources.
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Brad Holmes is a partner at Green Spaces (www.greenspacesny.com), a collaborative work space to launch green entrepreneurs. He is also the director of New York’s first Green Business Competition which is a groundbreaking platform to promote and reward companies that have the potential to revolutionize their industry by creating green jobs while preserving our ecological resources.
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Chris Colquitt
As a Driver Relationship Manager, Christopher currently serves as a primary point of contact for participants in GM's Project Driveway, the largest market test of fuel cell technology to date.
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As a Driver Relationship Manager, Christopher currently serves as a primary point of contact for participants in GM's Project Driveway, the largest market test of fuel cell technology to date.
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Craig Michaels
Craig Michaels, Watershed Program Director: Craig Michaels returned to Riverkeeper in 2007 as an Investigator for the Hudson River team. Mr. Michaels previously worked at Riverkeeper for three years as the Education and Outreach Coordinator before entering law school. In January 2007, he received his J.D. and Environmental Law Certificate from Pace Law School. At Pace, Mr. Michaels interned for a year at the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, where he represented Riverkeeper and four other environmental groups in administrative permit proceedings arising from a Clean Water Act citizen suit against the City of New York.
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Craig Michaels, Watershed Program Director: Craig Michaels returned to Riverkeeper in 2007 as an Investigator for the Hudson River team. Mr. Michaels previously worked at Riverkeeper for three years as the Education and Outreach Coordinator before entering law school. In January 2007, he received his J.D. and Environmental Law Certificate from Pace Law School. At Pace, Mr. Michaels interned for a year at the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, where he represented Riverkeeper and four other environmental groups in administrative permit proceedings arising from a Clean Water Act citizen suit against the City of New York.
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David Drucker
David Drucker is a graphics industry icon with more than quarter of a century of experience consulting and producing printed marketing collateral. David Drucker’s client list includes internationally known luxury brands, advertising agencies, corporations and non-profits. David Drucker, known as the GuruOfPrinting (www.GuruOfPrinting.com) resources and executes eco-friendly printing productions by using innovative materials and unique techniques. When companies want to make a brand statement with their marketing collateral, David Drucker is the expert they call upon.
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David Drucker is a graphics industry icon with more than quarter of a century of experience consulting and producing printed marketing collateral. David Drucker’s client list includes internationally known luxury brands, advertising agencies, corporations and non-profits. David Drucker, known as the GuruOfPrinting (www.GuruOfPrinting.com) resources and executes eco-friendly printing productions by using innovative materials and unique techniques. When companies want to make a brand statement with their marketing collateral, David Drucker is the expert they call upon.
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Donald R. Sadoway
Donald R. Sadoway is the John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He obtained the B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science, the M.A.Sc. in Chemical Metallurgy, and the Ph.D. in Chemical Metallurgy, all from the University of Toronto. After a year of postdoctoral study at MIT as a NATO Fellow, Dr. Sadoway joined the faculty in 1978.
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Donald R. Sadoway is the John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He obtained the B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science, the M.A.Sc. in Chemical Metallurgy, and the Ph.D. in Chemical Metallurgy, all from the University of Toronto. After a year of postdoctoral study at MIT as a NATO Fellow, Dr. Sadoway joined the faculty in 1978.
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Dr. Albert Esser
Albert Esser, Vice President, Power & Infrastructure Solutions, Dell.
Dell’s holistic approach to the data center enables our customers to meet their growing computing needs while also driving down energy costs and supporting their organization’s environmental responsibility goals.
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Albert Esser, Vice President, Power & Infrastructure Solutions, Dell.
Dell’s holistic approach to the data center enables our customers to meet their growing computing needs while also driving down energy costs and supporting their organization’s environmental responsibility goals.
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Dr. Pat
Dr Pat’s Green Challenge Website™ is challenging everyone to submit their ideas for change. Your voice will be heard and everyone and everything, and especially Mother Earth, will benefit. Start now, start today...and go green.
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Dr Pat’s Green Challenge Website™ is challenging everyone to submit their ideas for change. Your voice will be heard and everyone and everything, and especially Mother Earth, will benefit. Start now, start today...and go green.
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Gay Browne
“I want to help people lead healthier lives in an increasingly toxic world,” says Gay Browne, creator of Greenopia. With exhaustively researched, non-paid listings, Greenopia provides consumers with a resource for where to find a wide range of local green businesses, services, and organizations for metropolitan cities. Gay has also created a unique, easy-to-understand Green Leaf award system that rates the level of organic and sustainable products that a listed company provides to the consumer.
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“I want to help people lead healthier lives in an increasingly toxic world,” says Gay Browne, creator of Greenopia. With exhaustively researched, non-paid listings, Greenopia provides consumers with a resource for where to find a wide range of local green businesses, services, and organizations for metropolitan cities. Gay has also created a unique, easy-to-understand Green Leaf award system that rates the level of organic and sustainable products that a listed company provides to the consumer.
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George Oliphant
George Oliphant anchors WNBC’s weekly luxury lifestyle programs LX.TV 1st LOOK NY and OPEN HOUSE NYC. In LX.TV FIRST LOOK NY, Oliphant guides viewers through the newest and most exclusive New York City destinations in food, nightlife, art, shopping, fashion, wellness and weekend escapes. In OPEN HOUSE NYC, Oliphant gives viewers home improvement directives and ideas. OPEN HOUSE NYC presents an intimate view of New Yorkers as they search for, purchase and improve their dream homes. Oliphant was honored with a New York Emmy Award in 2008 for hosting the “LX/101: Scotch Whiskey" segment.
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George Oliphant anchors WNBC’s weekly luxury lifestyle programs LX.TV 1st LOOK NY and OPEN HOUSE NYC. In LX.TV FIRST LOOK NY, Oliphant guides viewers through the newest and most exclusive New York City destinations in food, nightlife, art, shopping, fashion, wellness and weekend escapes. In OPEN HOUSE NYC, Oliphant gives viewers home improvement directives and ideas. OPEN HOUSE NYC presents an intimate view of New Yorkers as they search for, purchase and improve their dream homes. Oliphant was honored with a New York Emmy Award in 2008 for hosting the “LX/101: Scotch Whiskey" segment.
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Jen Boulden
Jen Boulden will be speaking on Sun., Jan. 24 at 3:30pm
Jen Boulden spent the early part of her career leading business and
marketing strategies for a range of corporate and nonprofit organizations including IBM, Hearst, World Resource Institute, and Rocky Mountain Institute.
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Jen Boulden will be speaking on Sun., Jan. 24 at 3:30pm
Jen Boulden spent the early part of her career leading business and
marketing strategies for a range of corporate and nonprofit organizations including IBM, Hearst, World Resource Institute, and Rocky Mountain Institute.
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Jim Motavalli
Jim Motavalli is the Editor of the Norwalk, Connecticut-based E Magazine, the only independent national environmental bi-monthly. The magazine has consistently won national design and editorial awards, including the Utne Independent Press Award for Best Science and Environmental Coverage in 2002.
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Jim Motavalli is the Editor of the Norwalk, Connecticut-based E Magazine, the only independent national environmental bi-monthly. The magazine has consistently won national design and editorial awards, including the Utne Independent Press Award for Best Science and Environmental Coverage in 2002.
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Josh Dorfman
Josh Dorfman is an environmental entrepreneur, media personality and author of The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget: Save Money. Save Time. Save The Planet. He is also the host of the new television series The Lazy Environmentalist premiering this June on Sundance Channel. Previously, Josh was the creator, producer and host of The Lazy Environmentalist nationally broadcast radio show on Sirius. His website, www.lazyenvironmentalist.com, offers people insights into greening their lives without hassles or guilt-trips. About Josh’s first book, The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide To Easy, Stylish, Green Living, Dwell Magazine called it “a guide to going green without resorting to Birkenstocks or brown rice casserole.”
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Josh Dorfman is an environmental entrepreneur, media personality and author of The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget: Save Money. Save Time. Save The Planet. He is also the host of the new television series The Lazy Environmentalist premiering this June on Sundance Channel. Previously, Josh was the creator, producer and host of The Lazy Environmentalist nationally broadcast radio show on Sirius. His website, www.lazyenvironmentalist.com, offers people insights into greening their lives without hassles or guilt-trips. About Josh’s first book, The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide To Easy, Stylish, Green Living, Dwell Magazine called it “a guide to going green without resorting to Birkenstocks or brown rice casserole.”
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Julie Edelman
Julie Edelman aka The Accidental Housewife, NY Times Bestselling Author and media go to gal for sanity saving household tips will 'spread the glove' with humor and real life practicality by sharing eco and ego friendly ways to save our homes, family and planet.
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Julie Edelman aka The Accidental Housewife, NY Times Bestselling Author and media go to gal for sanity saving household tips will 'spread the glove' with humor and real life practicality by sharing eco and ego friendly ways to save our homes, family and planet.
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Ken Rother
President and COO, TreeHugger
Vice President of Operations for Planet Green Interactive
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President and COO, TreeHugger
Vice President of Operations for Planet Green Interactive
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Kim Carlson
Often credited for tirelessly working to preserve our planet long before global warming hit the mainstream radar, Kim Carlson is an eco-savvy entrepreneur, green business author and eco-chic lifestyle expert. She is the Founder of five successful companies that use earth-friendliness as their driving force. Carlson’s book, Green Your Work: Boost Your Bottom Line While Reducing Your Eco-Footprint - about the many advantages of being an environmentally responsible business - was released in January 2009. Her latest venture is the development of the EarthSmart Product Standard, a retail product certification program devised in collaboration with the country’s leading scientists, academics and environmentalists that will prove to be the most innovative environmental screening process to date.
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Often credited for tirelessly working to preserve our planet long before global warming hit the mainstream radar, Kim Carlson is an eco-savvy entrepreneur, green business author and eco-chic lifestyle expert. She is the Founder of five successful companies that use earth-friendliness as their driving force. Carlson’s book, Green Your Work: Boost Your Bottom Line While Reducing Your Eco-Footprint - about the many advantages of being an environmentally responsible business - was released in January 2009. Her latest venture is the development of the EarthSmart Product Standard, a retail product certification program devised in collaboration with the country’s leading scientists, academics and environmentalists that will prove to be the most innovative environmental screening process to date.
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Mattie Kahn
A teenage eco-advocate, Mattie Kahn is the co-president of Teens Turning Green: New York and Vice President of the TTG National Advisory Board. Teens Turning Green is a national coalition of dynamic young women and men who seek to educate and inspire their peers and community members about safe, healthy, and green lifestyle choices.
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A teenage eco-advocate, Mattie Kahn is the co-president of Teens Turning Green: New York and Vice President of the TTG National Advisory Board. Teens Turning Green is a national coalition of dynamic young women and men who seek to educate and inspire their peers and community members about safe, healthy, and green lifestyle choices.
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Melissa Stevens
Melissa Stevens is the National Business Development Manager for Mohawk Fine Papers. One of her core responsibilities includes, being the environmental liaison for Mohawk, speaking to and educating on the strict environmental standards being adopted in paper manufacturing. Melissa also leads Mohawk’s CSR committee in developing a framework throughout the company that ensures communication and transparency to all of Mohawk’s stakeholders.
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Melissa Stevens is the National Business Development Manager for Mohawk Fine Papers. One of her core responsibilities includes, being the environmental liaison for Mohawk, speaking to and educating on the strict environmental standards being adopted in paper manufacturing. Melissa also leads Mohawk’s CSR committee in developing a framework throughout the company that ensures communication and transparency to all of Mohawk’s stakeholders.
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Michael Parrish DuDell
Michael Parrish DuDell is a writer, public speaker and social entrepreneur. He is currently the Senior Editor of Ecorazzi.com and the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of VEGdaily.com. Michael is also a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post, Crazy Sexy Life and VegNews magazine.
In early 2009, Michael founded 341 Media—a digital media company dedicated to producing projects that promote the advancement of three causes (human, environmental and animal) for one common goal and the president of the Sustainable Leadership Council. Michael is twenty-six years old and lives in New York City.
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Michael Parrish DuDell is a writer, public speaker and social entrepreneur. He is currently the Senior Editor of Ecorazzi.com and the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of VEGdaily.com. Michael is also a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post, Crazy Sexy Life and VegNews magazine.
In early 2009, Michael founded 341 Media—a digital media company dedicated to producing projects that promote the advancement of three causes (human, environmental and animal) for one common goal and the president of the Sustainable Leadership Council. Michael is twenty-six years old and lives in New York City.
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Paul Novack
Green Depot
Director of Sustainability, Product Specialist
Paul Novack is one Green Depot’s in-house experts, specializing in the fields of environmental health and construction. For many years, it has been Paul’s mission to work closely with the medical profession and environmental scientists to help create non-toxic environments for chemically sensitive patients. Considered one of the leading experts in the field of ecologically correct and non-toxic construction materials, Paul’s consultancy is sought out by architects, builders and end users.
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Green Depot
Director of Sustainability, Product Specialist
Paul Novack is one Green Depot’s in-house experts, specializing in the fields of environmental health and construction. For many years, it has been Paul’s mission to work closely with the medical profession and environmental scientists to help create non-toxic environments for chemically sensitive patients. Considered one of the leading experts in the field of ecologically correct and non-toxic construction materials, Paul’s consultancy is sought out by architects, builders and end users.
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Remy Chevalier
Remy Chevalier is editor-at-large and webmaster at Electrifying Times, a magazine dedicated to electric vehicles since 1993. Remy founded the Eco-Saloon at the Wetlands nightclub in 1989, and has assisted in the successful development of hundreds of green products and careers. He is the host of Norwalk Greendrinks in Connecticut, helping other Greendrinks organizers establish themselves around the country.
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Remy Chevalier is editor-at-large and webmaster at Electrifying Times, a magazine dedicated to electric vehicles since 1993. Remy founded the Eco-Saloon at the Wetlands nightclub in 1989, and has assisted in the successful development of hundreds of green products and careers. He is the host of Norwalk Greendrinks in Connecticut, helping other Greendrinks organizers establish themselves around the country.
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Sarah Beatty
Green Depot
Founder & President
Sarah Beatty is the founder and President of Green Depot. Prior to Green Depot, Sarah worked in media and marketing. She spent ten years at MTV: Music Television, where she was Vice President of Trade Marketing and Global Branding. In 2001, Sarah joined USA Cable as Senior Vice President of the Marketing and Creative divisions. In her four year tenure at USAN, the channel experienced a successful turn-around and “comeback” – to once again become the #1 most highly rated network in basic cable television.
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Green Depot
Founder & President
Sarah Beatty is the founder and President of Green Depot. Prior to Green Depot, Sarah worked in media and marketing. She spent ten years at MTV: Music Television, where she was Vice President of Trade Marketing and Global Branding. In 2001, Sarah joined USA Cable as Senior Vice President of the Marketing and Creative divisions. In her four year tenure at USAN, the channel experienced a successful turn-around and “comeback” – to once again become the #1 most highly rated network in basic cable television.
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Shannon Arvizu
Shannon Arvizu is a clean-tech strategist and educator. She is currently a doctoral researcher at Columbia University and has spent the last two years investigating the field of green cars and green energy for her forthcoming Ph.D. dissertation.
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Shannon Arvizu is a clean-tech strategist and educator. She is currently a doctoral researcher at Columbia University and has spent the last two years investigating the field of green cars and green energy for her forthcoming Ph.D. dissertation.
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Valerie Mason-Robinson
Valerie Mason-Robinson aka the Green Beauty Queen is a leading expert in the “green” beauty world. Valerie is the CEO & Founder of Eden Organix. Eden Organix is an ecoconscious beauty company and spa. Our guiding mission is to enrich the lives of our clients with organic, natural, and eco-friendly products and services. Eden Organix uses every opportunity to educate the public and their clients on how to be more environmentally
aware.
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Valerie Mason-Robinson aka the Green Beauty Queen is a leading expert in the “green” beauty world. Valerie is the CEO & Founder of Eden Organix. Eden Organix is an ecoconscious beauty company and spa. Our guiding mission is to enrich the lives of our clients with organic, natural, and eco-friendly products and services. Eden Organix uses every opportunity to educate the public and their clients on how to be more environmentally
aware.
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