LOS ANGELES, CA. - September 30, 2008 - Opportunity Green(TM): being green + being profitable (opportunitygreen.com), in partnership with Price Center for Entrepreneurship Studies at UCLA Anderson School of Management, announces its 2nd annual sustainability conference at the UCLA campus on November 7 & 8, 2008 with Patagonia as the title sponsor. The Opportunity Green(TM) mission is to create innovation, collaboration and inspiration amongst industry leaders and the next generation of thought leadership in order to facilitate, develop and implement sustainable business solutions. At Opportunity Green(TM) 2008, attendees can expect to forge new strategic partnerships and community while exploring sustainable strategies and best practices.

"Our belief system lies in the simple word, 'opportunity,' from our name and it conveys the central idea to the platform of this conference and that is we don't endorse any particular ideology, rather we encourage and foster them all in order to open up opportunity for any and all curious individuals and enterprise to be ethically sustainable," says Michael Flynn, Co-Founder & Curator, Opportunity Green(TM). He adds, "Opportunity Green(TM) intentionally mixes left-brain and right-brain thinkers and doers." Opportunity Green(TM) attracts a diverse mix of people from CEO's to MBA's to Entrepreneurs from a broad range of industry such as retail, manufacturing, NGO, investment, academia, arts/culture/entertainment, design & communication, technology, publishing and government in an effort to inspire, elevate and propel the sustainability conversation. It will present the opportunity to rub elbows with 500 of the best and brightest thought leaders all focused on building socially responsible and sustainable enterprises.

"Honestly, we're back by popular demand because of our uniqueness," says Karen Solomon, Co-Founder & Curator, Opportunity Green(TM). She adds, "We sought to create an engaging, nurturing and egoless conversation around sustainability with the belief that great ideas are transcendent and worth spreading." Opportunity Green is a winning combination of a two-day business conference with a blend of mixed-level interactive workshops, multi-topic panel discussions, arts & culture, keynotes, executive showcases, case studies, fast-talks, mini-expo, and VIP gatherings. Marc Alt, President & CEO of Marc Alt + Partners, states "Of all of the sustainability events I have attended and plan to attend this year, this event excites me the most in terms of audience, subject matter and integrity of the organizing committee. I expect it to have the most heart and highest cool-factor."

Speakers include Rick Ridgeway, Patagonia Exec. VP of Marketing & Environmental Programs; Lorrie Vogel, Nike General Manager, Considered Products; Michela O'Connor Abrams, Dwell President and Publisher; Marc Alt, Marc Alt + Partners President and CEO; Adeo Ressi, TheFunded.com, Founding Member; Tom Szacky, Terracycle Co-Founder & CEO; Zem Joaquin, Ecofabulous Founder and Editor in Chief; Andy Funk, Funk Ventures Managing Director; Josh Dorfman, Vivavi CEO & Author of The Lazy Environmentalist; Joshua Onysko, Pangea Organics, CEO; Michael Besancon, Whole Foods President, Southern Pacific Region; Rand Waddoups, Walmart, Senior VP of Sustainability; and, Gene Block, UCLA Chancellor.

About Opportunity Green(TM): being green + being profitable - a Manifesto
Opportunity Green(TM) (opportunitygreen.com) is in the business to create community to inspire a collaborative culture of new thinking and unconventional ideas that pushes change in unexpected ways. We're not about business as usual. We facilitate the movement to transform business for good, through advancing change and market transformation by providing open-minded professionals unprecedented approaches to sustainability that are bankable and exciting. In everything we do, we seek to balance the triple bottom line: people, planet and profit. Our purpose is to fill your head with knowledge you can use: ideas, new trends, amazing ingenuity. We seek to create forums diverse in content that generate dialogue and create valuable connections between individuals. This revolves around helping transform business as usual by partnering with extraordinary visionaries, forward thinkers, creative industry leaders and companies committed to building profitable + sustainable enterprises while solving some of the worlds toughest problems. We believe in collaboration with individuals and organizations that look to push the envelope by creating a mutually supportive community that is invested in the future of our society and acts as a catalyst for positive change.

Opportunity Green

Opportunity Green

Opportunity Green (OG) is the preeminent sustainability forum facilitating the exchange of ideas and solutions among decision makers and the next generation of market leaders. With the purpose of transforming traditional business models, OG delivers thoughtfully curated programs showcasing game-changing solutions that are scalable, sustainable and measureable.

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