Next up at Corporate Club
Thursday, June 12, 2008
11:30am Registration | 12 noon Luncheon and Program
Featuring:
David Beach, Director, GreenCityBlueLake Institute
Holly Harlan, President & Founder, E4S – Entrepreneurs for Sustainability
Chuck Fowler, CEO, Fairmount Minerals
Moderator:
Ted Henry, Anchor, News Channel5 This is one event you don't want to miss -- register online today!
David Beach is the director of the GreenCityBlueLake Institute at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. The Institute was created from the recent merger of the Museum and EcoCity Cleveland. It will help engage the public about the design of ecological cities and how human beings can live sustainably on Earth in the 21st century.
Before joining the Museum of Natural History, Beach was founder and executive director of EcoCity Cleveland. He built the organization into a respected center of thought and practice about sustainability and the design of cities in balance with nature. EcoCity Cleveland worked in city neighborhoods to promote environmentally-friendly redevelopment that improves quality of life and economic competitiveness. It worked in the countryside of Northeast Ohio to promote sensitive development that preserves open space and the ecological integrity of the landscape. And, balancing city and country, EcoCity worked to shape regional plans for land use and transportation.
EcoCity Cleveland’s projects, research, and publications won national acclaim. Its journal was nominated three times for national “Best of the Alternative Press Awards.” And its Web site, www.ecocitycleveland.org, was named one of the 50 best Web sites for planning and community development. EcoCity’s more recent work on its www.GreenCityBlueLake.org website has popularized the vision that “Cleveland can be a green city on a blue lake.”
David Beach has been writing and speaking about the environment, neighborhood development, and regional planning issues for more than 25 years. He has deep roots in Northeast Ohio; his family has lived there for six generations. He is a graduate of Harvard University.
Holly Harlan, an entrepreneur, engineer, and economic and business development specialist for over 25 years, works with entrepreneurial leaders from business, government and non-profit organizations to implement sustainable business strategies that drive new opportunities and triple bottom line benefits for their organizations and the region. In 2000 Holly founded the Entrepreneurs for Sustainability (E4S), an award winning non-profit whose mission is to build sustainable regional economies that affirm and sustain life for all.
Holly Harlan and E4S are nationally recognized as a catalyst of sustainable business projects and a convener of over 5000 entrepreneurial leaders over 7 years in Cleveland+, a 35% growth over the previous year with an average of 185 attending monthly network events. E4S Learning Programs participation grew 82% in 2007 and is expected to double by 2009 to nearly 500. Over 28% of the E4S Learning Program participants reported implementing sustainable business practices in their buildings or operations.
Chuck Fowler is the President and CEO of Fairmount Minerals, a market-driven company with strategically located facilities nationwide and a global distribution network. Headquartered in Chardon, Ohio, Fairmount is one of the largest producers of industrial sand in the United States, with locations also in Canada, Mexico and a brand new resin coating facility in Yixing, China.
Prior to joining Fairmount Minerals in 1978, Chuck served first as President of Martin Marietta’s industrial sand division, then as President of Wedron Silica Company in Wedron, Illinois (now a subsidiary of Fairmount Minerals). A 1967 graduate of Perdue University with a BS in Industrial Management, Chuck went on to earn his EMBA from Case Western University in 1990, where he recently joined the Board of Trustees.
Chuck has served on numerous non-profit boards, including Bellflower Center, The Alzheimer’s Association and Geauga Park Foundation. The Das Deutch Clinic and The Geauga YMCA are just two of the organizations to which Chuck is currently devoting his time, talent and treasure.
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