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California Nature Tours Takes Green Chamber On Outdoor Educational Tour This Sunday Feb. 19th at 10am In Marin! Please Join Us!

GCC Community! Please join Green Chamber member California Nature Tours and Executive Director of the Green Chamber, Risa De Ferrari, on a free, fun and flexible outdoor tour from Founder of California Nature Tours,  David D. Schmidt this weekend! David, who is a 5th generation San Franciscan, major California history buff, and has worked for [...]

Update: California DISCLOSE Act AB 1148 Falls Two Votes Short, But Sets Stage for Future Victory

Every Democrat except Assemblymember Cathleen Galgiani votes for real disclosure The California DISCLOSE Act, which the Green Chamber participated in advocating on behalf of in December and January, has unfortunately met its end as a result of being just two votes short a two-thirds majority on the California State Assembly Floor.  The Green Chamber is [...]

Progressive Opportunities Conference – Sunday Feb 26, 10am – 6pm

Please join the Green Chamber at the Progressive Opportunities Conference on Sunday February 26, 2012 The East Bay Express invites all concerned citizens, activists, nonprofits, entrepreneurs, business owners, workers, civic leaders, investors, and change makers! The Bay Area has tons of people and organizations working on our most pressing economic problems. What makes us so special is that our [...]

SF Bay Area Green Supply Chain Forum – Friday Feb 10 at noon in SF

Are you involved in supply chain, manufacturing operations management?  If so, you may be interested in attending this forum! Executive Director Risa De Ferrari will be speaking at the next Green Supply Chain Forum in SF. The SF Bay Area Green Supply Chain Forum is a monthly roundtable of SF Bay Area supply chain directors who [...]

Green Chamber Sustainable Marin Event – Thursday Feb 23 at 6:30pm

Please join the Green Chamber & partner San Rafael Chamber for a great evening of networking and to hear from Sustainable Marin champion, Kiki LaPorta Kiki LaPorta is a long time Marin County resident who serves on the board of the Fairfax Chamber and is on the Green Committee for the San Rafael Chamber. Her [...]

Green Chamber Endorses AB 1148: CA Disclose Act – Help Us Pass It Through CA Assembly Appropriations Committee Tomorrow, Jan. 19

The Green Chamber participated in a very successful California Assembly Elections Committee Hearing last Monday and testified on behalf of socially and environmentally responsible businesses to pass AB 1148: CA Disclose Act in California. At the Assembly Elections Committee Hearing, we won a big 5-0 victory for AB 1148, the California DISCLOSE Act, thanks partially [...]

2012 Inaugural Green Chamber Member Event! Marin County – Jan 25 at 6:30pm

Calling All Current and Prospective Green Chamber Members!   Please join us for the first of our monthly Marin County Green Chamber of Commerce Events to be held at the Venture Green House in San Rafael, CA on Wednesday, January 25 at 6:30pm! Come participate in kick-starting the new year for the GCC by learning [...]

Join the Green Chamber at the 2012 Green Business Forum!

San Francisco, CA – January 30th:  As a partner of GreenBiz Group, the Green Chamber would like to help you kick-start the new year with the sustainability insight, connections, and tools necessary to make 2012 a real breakthrough. The GreenBiz Forum brings the greatest business minds together to not only “talk shop” about what’s working [...]

CA Benefit Corp Inauguration Day: Tomorrow, 1/3/2012 in Sacramento!

Get on the B Corp Band Wagon Today! Join Assemblymember Jared Huffman, Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, and leading California sustainable businesses for the first effective date of Benefit Corporation legislation. Remarks will begin at 9:30am at the Office of the Secretary of State (when it opens), after which the first benefit corporations in California will file [...]

Happy Holidays from the Green Chamber of Commerce

Celebrating an Action Packed Year! The San Francisco Bay Area Green Chamber of Commerce would like to wish you a very happy holiday season and thank you for all of your ongoing support in 2011. This has been an exciting year for us. Some of our accomplishments include: Passage of an opt-in Yellow Page Ordinance [...]