[Gaviotas] From Green Jobs to Building the Blue Economy with Gunter Pauli/April 23, 24, 25, 2010

Thu Apr 1 07:59:04 CDT 2010

Building the Blue Economy, with Gunter Pauli
   ~ April 23, 24, 25, 2010 ~
Santa Barbara City College Campus, Santa Barbara, California

Nature itself shows us how to innovate, generate & create jobs

The SBCC Center for Sustainability
presents
~Building the Blue Economy with Gunter Pauli~
Booksigning & Talk, Friday, April 23, 2010
Fe Bland Auditorium, Santa Barbara City College West Campus
   7:30 - 9:30 pm, Admission $15 (SBCC students $10)

(All Day Workshop, Saturday, April 24, 9-5pm, $120)

How a new generation of entrepreneurs can bring
  innovations to the marketplace, secure basic needs for all,
and make sustainable businesses competitive.

	 Join the Santa Barbara City College 
Center for Sustainability for a rare chance to 
spend time with one of the most innovative 
thinkers of our time.  Author of the newly 
published book "The Blue Economy, 10 Years, 100 
Innovations, 100 Million Jobs" Gunter Pauli 
challenges us to give up doomsday thinking...

Gunter Pauli suggests by emulating nature we can 
evolve from an economy based on scarcity to an 
economy based on abundance---the cascading, 
nutrient rich, Blue Economy.  Founder of Zero 
Emissions Research Initiatives (ZERI) Global 
Network, Gunter Pauli pioneered the concept of 
waste being seen as a resource that with creative 
thinking, can be used to create multiple 
enterprises from singular ones, with benefits for 
the economy and the environment.  Pauli is fond 
of saying that returns on investment from these 
kinds of business models far exceed those of 
companies like Microsoft.

The Blue Economy began as a project to find one 
hundred of the best nature-inspired technologies 
that could effect the economies of the world, 
while sustainably providing basic human needs. 
Starting with over 2000 peer review articles, Dr. 
Pauli found 340 innovations that could be bundled 
into systems that function the way ecosystems do, 
that were then reviewed by a team of scientists, 
corporate strategists, expert financiers, and 
public policy makers.  For the 100 Innovations 
described, The Blue Economy estimates an 
employment potential of 100 million jobs.  The 
plausibility of this estimate is enhanced by the 
fact that there are today more people employed in 
renewable energies than in the oil and gas 
industries combined. 

Famous eco-entrepreneur and passionate proponent 
of green development worldwide, Gunter Pauli is 
the former president of Ecover biodegradable soap 
company who built Europeís first ecological 
factory.   Pauli is the founder of Worldwatch 
Europe, and a member of the Club of Rome and 
directs the Zero Emissions Research Initiative 
(ZERI) at the United Nations University in Tokyo. 
He lectures regularly to business executives and 
governments, and is the author of 17 books in 21 
languages.

The event takes place on Friday, April 23, 
7:30-9:30pm at the Fe Bland Forum auditorium, 
SBCC West Campus, 721 Cliff Drive.
Admission $15 ($10 SBCC Students), no advance 
reservations for the evening talk, first come 
basis. 

Sponsored by the Santa Barbara City College Center for Sustainability
Co-sponsors: Santa Barbara Permaculture Network & 
SBCC Scheinfeld Center for Entrepreneurship & 
Innovation
Event Info, 
<http://www.sbpermaculture.org/>www.sbpermaculture.org, 
margie at sbpermaculture.org, (805)962-2571

Associated Workshop & Retreat:

~Workshop: From Green Jobs to Building the Blue 
Economy with Gunter Pauli & Guests~
  SBCC East Campus, Sat, April 24, 9am - 5pm, $120 
($100 early registration/April 6)

Morning Plenary Session with Gunter Pauli - 9am - Noon
  Afternoon Break-Out Sessions with Gunter Pauli & Guests- 1:30 - 5pm

Special Guests:
Woody Tasch, President of Slow Money Alliance
Kreigh Hampel, City of Burbank, Public Works, Recycling Coordinator
Randy Grissom, Director Santa Fe Community 
College Sustainable Technologies Center
	 ~Offsite Retreat with Gunter Pauli, Sunday April 25, 10am - 4pm, $300~
  		 Spend the day with Gunter Pauli 
in a small group, at beautiful quiet location 
(early registration/April 6/$250)

Event Supporters: Quail Springs Learning Oasis & 
Permaculture Farm, Green2Gold, Loa Tree, Orella 
Ranch,
  El Capitan Canyon Resort, Teeccino, The 
Independent, Nutiva, The Sustainability Project, 
Sustainable Youth Vocations, Hopedance Media, & 
the Carbon Farming & Economy Courses, Island Seed 
& Feed, Oasis Design

More Information/Resources:

On YouTube: Gunter Pauli introduces "The Blue 
Economy" and it`s 100 innovations.   

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oHCEGalr7U&feature=player_embedded

  100 Innovations:
   Blue Economy/Gunter Pauli releases one innovation per week for 100 weeks
  100 Innovations/one per week go to  www.blueeconomy.de
  Introduction to the 100 innovations
  that could generate 100 million jobs within a decade

Visit The World Congress on Zero Emissions 
Initiatives:  http://www.zeroemissionshawaii.org/

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