PlanetReuse Marketplace - Finalist in Sustainable Brands Innovation Open

PlanetReuse Marketplace has made it to the finals at the Sustainable Brands Innovation Open! Along with three other companies: Solar Mosaic, EcoFiltro and Bike & Park.

PlanetReuse is making a 4-minute presentation to about 1,000 attendees of the Sustainable Brands conference in San Diego and there is a FREE live stream to a global audience today at 4:45 PST / 7:45 EST TODAY. The link to watch all the innovation excitement is: http://www.sustainablebrands.com/events/sb12/live/register

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The lineup for this evening’s events at the Innovation Open Final will go as follows:
1 - Sponsor Thank you's, 5mins
2 - Phil Giesler presents, 8mins
3 - Solar Mosaic - Billy, 4mins
4 - PlanetReuse Marketplace - Willow and Nathan, 4mins
5 - Ecofiltro - Philip, 4mins
6 - Bike and Park - Jeremy and Josh, 4mins
7 - Voting instructions, 4mins

The Judges for the Innovation Open Competition include:
-Paul Bradley, Executive Creative Director @ Frog Design
-Phil Giesler, Director of Innovation @ Unilever Corporate Ventures
-Kate Heiny, Manager of Sustainability @ Target
-Olivia Khalili, Senior Partnerships Manager @ Ashoka’s Changemakers
-Renee Morin, President @ PRe North America, Inc.
-Rahul Raj, Director of Sustainability @ WalMart
-William B. Rosenzweig, Partner @ Physic Ventures
-Sandy Skees, CEO/Founder @ Communications4Good
-KoAnn Vikoren Skrzyniarz, Founder & Chief Catalyst @ Sustainable Brands
-George Stewart, Chief Revenue Officer @ Resonate Networks
-Andrew Winston, Founder @ Winston Eco-Strategies
-Ian Yolles, Chief Sustainability Officer @ RecycleBank

Please tune in tonight and watch Nathan and Willow as they present PlanetReuse Marketplace at the Innovation Open!

GreenTown Chicago 2010

GreenTown: The Future of Community is designed to help create sustainable communities. Mayors and elected officials, public works directors, park district directors, planners, developers, architects, landscape architects, builders, school leaders and others interested in seeing how a community can become greener, gather to hear from inspiring speakers, learn from been-there case studies and discuss actionable ways to make communities greener, healthier and more prosperous.

GreenTown Chicago will be held on October 13-14, 2010, at Columbia College Chicago and will be sponsored by the City of Chicago, Department of Environment. 

There are many great presenters from the City of Chicago, Animal Planet and Planet Green, iGo, Seven Generations Ahead, Plant Chicago, City of San Francisco, Chicago Public Schools, and many, many more.  Here is a preliminary agenda from the event, Agenda.

One of the many great breakout sessions:

Innovation in Building Material Waste Reuse & Recycling.   This panel will feature managers of two Chicago businesses that are reusing or recycling large volumes of construction & demolition waste and a business that makes it easy for architects and builders to find reclaimed materials for their projects.  The ReBuilding Exchange (RX), a new Chicago-based building material reuse store that diverted 1,200 tons of building materials from deconstructed homes and residential rehab work in its first year of operations.  Recycling Systems, Inc. is sorting and reselling even greater volumes of C&D waste from demolition activity in Chicago.  PlanetReuse matches reclaimed materials with designers and builders to save projects money. Panelists will discuss major markets and customers and present visuals of how materials are being reused or recycled by contractors, designers and how the use of recycled materials can help buildings earn LEED certification.

Moderator:  Chris Slattery, Senior Director, Delta Institute

Panelists: 
·         Meegan Czop, Business Manager, the ReBuilding Exchange
·         Jerry Golf, Jr., President, Recycling Systems, Inc.
·         Nathan Benjamin, Principal + Founder, PlanetReuse

This “Biocycle #2” breakout will run from 2:15 – 3:15 p.m. on October 14, 2010.