More and more mind blowing stuff at the LOHAS conference today. First we have Hunter Lovins, her real name. She runs a company called Natural Capitalism that helps small businesses go green. She’s also a professor, author of nine books, and world-wide speaker. Some of the many things I learned from this large-presenced woman in…

“Apologizing–a very desperate habit–one that is rarely cured.  Apology is only egotism wrong side out.”  – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table My name is Valerie and I’m an apology addict. Hello, Valerie. I had no idea how bad it was. On Wednesday I posted on my one-week experiment in not apologizing…

I just listened to Ray Anderson (founder of the billion dollar carpet company Interface Global) talk at LOHAS. The entrepreneur calls himself a “radical industrialist” and is my new hero–and already lots of other people’s hero. Among so many other things he has done to make his company as eco as possible way before it…

I’m at the LOHAS conference in Boulder, a green gathering I posted on the other day. And right now, I’m in a session where they’re talking about the intricacies of the LOHAS demographic–who buys green, organic, socially responsible, and natural products–a $50 million industry. In the midst of the numbers, the speaker, Steve French of…

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