Green Chamber of Commerce

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 [...]

Deadline to apply for Acterra’s 2012 Business Environmental Awards is Friday, Dec 9th

Calling all green business champions! Has your company significantly reduced its water, materials or energy consumption? Minimized its carbon footprint? Prompted significant behavioral change? If so, consider applying for a 2012 2012 Business Environmental Award. Applications are available at www.acterra.org/bea and are due by 11:59 pm on Friday, December 9, 2011. This year’s categories are: [...]

Interview with Green Chamber Sponsor Green Dentistry

Dr. Nammy Patel is innovating dentistry by introducing sustainable methods in treatment, sanitation and interaction with her client base.  We wanted to better understand how an industry whose purpose is to ensure a healthy community can more closely move towards their mission statement and begin to treat people as people not just as patients. GCC: [...]

How To Become a Benefit Corporation on Dec 7

San Francisco Bay Area Green Chamber of Commerce Presents “How To Become a Benefit Corporation” on Dec 7 Co-hosted by Assemblymember Jared Huffman (author of AB 361: California Benefit Corporations), and Law Firms Hanson Bridgett, Montgomery & Hansen, and Wendel, Rosen, Black, & Dean SAN FRANCISCO (November 29, 2011) – The San Francisco Bay Area Green [...]

Congrats to Green Chamber 2011 Business Sustainability Award Winner Parducci Wine Cellars!

The Green Chamber of Commerce would like to recognize Parducci Wine Cellars as our 2011 Business Sustainability Award winner! Parducci Wine Cellars was peer selected to win the Green Chamber’s first ever Business Sustainability Award at our 3rd Annual Green Chamber of Commerce Gala Event held on November 10th. In their effort to become America’s Greenest [...]

Interview with Green Chamber Member law firm Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP

The Green Chamber sat down with Donald Simon, a longtime environmental advocate and partner at the Oakland based law firm of Wendel,Rosen, Black & Dean LLP to have an in-depth discussion about one of the most significant pieces of sustainable business legislation to hit the California coast; AB 361, California’s Benefit Corporation legislation. This landmark [...]