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Rhode Island Energy Solutions Expo

Plenary Session begins at 11:00 AM

Welcome

Dean Jeffrey R. Seemann
College of the Environment and Life Sciences

Remarks

Rhode Island State Representative

Vice President Robert A. Weygand
Division of Administration

Announcement of Student Energy Video Contest Winners

Scott Finlinson
NORESCO

Keynote Address

Gary Hirshberg
Chairman, President, and CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm

Author: “Stirring it Up: How to Make Money and Save the World.”

• 11:30am-12:15pm: Speech with book signing afterwards
• 1:45pm-2:30pm: Small business workshop / Extended Q & A

About Stonyfield: Stonyfield is the world’s leading organic yogurt producer, based in Londonderry, New Hampshire. For the past 25 years, Gary has overseen Stonyfield Farm’s phenomenal growth, from its infancy as a seven-cow organic farming school in 1983 to its current $320 million in annual sales. Stonyfield has enjoyed a compounded annual growth rate of over 24% for more than eighteen years, by consistently producing great-tasting products and using innovative marketing techniques that blend the company’s social, environmental, and financial missions.

The speech: Green Business: The Next Frontier. Think climate change is all bad news? Gary claims climate change offers business the biggest economic opportunity of the century. Hirshberg points out business has access to the vast amounts of capital that will be needed to transform institutions and operations. Business has the power of money, media, and community leadership.

Awards: Gary has won numerous awards for corporate and environmental leadership, including Global Green USA's “1999 Green Cross Millennium Award for Corporate Environmental Leadership.” He was named "Business Leader of the Year" by Business NH Magazine and "New Hampshire's 1998 Small Business Person of the Year" by the U.S. Small Business Administration.