Driving Inventiveness, Opportunity Green Announces OG25 Competition Top Green Start-up Finalists.Twenty-five Sustainable, Ethical Companies Chosen for Business Innovation, Simplicity LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- The Opportunity Green Sustainable Business A business is sustainable if it has adapted its practices for the use of renewable resources and holds itself accountable for the environmental and human rights impacts of its activities. Conference, which brings together leading companies and visionaries in business, technology, and design to showcase the hottest opportunities for driving profitability through sustainability, announced today the final nominees for the OG25 Innovative green start-ups -- twenty-five sustainable start-ups chosen for their stand-out approaches to creating real change through business. "The inspiration for the contest came from the hundreds of companies requesting to speak at the 2009 conference, with the majority coming from the green sector looking to introduce themselves to the wider business community," said Karen Solomon, Co-Founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Opportunity Green. "You'd be amazed how many fascinating and innovative ideas there are out there, under the radar This article is about the magazine. For other uses, see Under the Radar (disambiguation). Under the Radar is an American magazine that bills itself as "The solution to music pollution." It features interviews with accompanying photo-shoots. , ready to be the next big thing. The OG25 is a way to honor the top echelon of those companies." Several hundred companies were nominated through both Opportunity Green's website and recommendations by Opportunity Green staff and expert consultants. Nominations came from a variety of sectors, including waste management, product design, social innovation, transportation and mobility, water conservation, food systems, and resources conservation. Those designated as OG25 finalists will be given sponsored admission to Opportunity Green 2009, November 7-8 at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX in Los Angeles. During the conference, the top five finalists will be showcased on stage live for the chance to compete for the distinction of "Opportunity Green's Top Start-up of 2009." The White House agrees that innovation is essential to fueling new growth our economy demands. "We need some inventiveness," President Obama said to about 60 researchers and business executives from clean energy industries in March. "Your country needs you to create new jobs and lead new industries." Opportunity Green selected the final 25 companies based on their combination of innovative thinking and simplicity of execution. One example is Balqon Corporation, which introduced a zero emissions heavy-duty electric truck designed for short haul Short distance. Short haul implies traversing a small geographic area such as a few miles at most. Contrast with long haul. See line driver. deliveries. RecycleMatch, another OG25 finalist, is converting waste streams from one company into useful materials for another company. The complete list of nominees include: Arjun Dev Arora www.BTTRVentures.com Balqon www.balqon.com BIXI bixi.com Bottlestone http://www.bottlestone.com/ Brad's Raw Chips http://www.bradsrawchips.com/ CleanFish: Inc. www.cleanfish.com Double Helix double helix n. The coiled structure of a double-stranded DNA molecule in which strands linked by hydrogen bonds form a spiral configuration. Also called DNA helix, Watson-Crick helix. doublehelixtracking.net Ecovative Design ecovativedesign.com EnergyHub http://www.energyhub.net/ Greensulate greensulate.com Green Pizza Box pizza box - [Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes. http://www.greenboxny.com/ecoincorporated.com/Home.html H.U.M.A.N. Healthy Vending Healthy Vending is a pioneer in distributing healthy foods for vending machines. By researching and developing foods through a team of medical doctors and nutritionist, Healhy Vending is working toward their goal of getting healthier foods into vending machines, especially those in healthyvending.com iCeL Systems: Inc. www.icelsystems.com Kopali Organics http://www.kopaliorganics.com/ Levant Levant (ləvănt`) [Ital.,=east], collective name for the countries of the eastern shore of the Mediterranean from Egypt to, and including, Turkey. Power levantpower.com Novomer http://www.novomer.com/ Powerzoa Inc. www.powerzoa.com Project Frog www.projectfrog.com RecycleMatch www.recyclematch.com Regen http://www.regenliving.com/ Roofray roofray.com SRS SRS, SRS-A see slow-reacting substance. Energy srsenergy.com TOUCH www.do-not-touch.com Wattbot wattbot.com WiTricity witricity.com To sponsor Opportunity Green or get additional information about OG25, contact Karen Solomon at 310-709-6952 or at karen@opportunitygreen.com. Follow the latest news and updates related to Opportunity Green on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/opportunitygreen and on Twitter A Web site and service that lets users send short text messages from their cellphones to a group of friends. Launched in 2006, Twitter (www.twitter.com) was designed for people to broadcast their current activities and thoughts. at http://www.twitter.com/oppgreen. About Opportunity Green The Opportunity Green conference brings together leading companies and visionaries in technology, design, media, and more, to showcase the hottest opportunities for driving profitability through sustainability. The conference allows participants exposure to, and experience with, an interdisciplinary cross-section of ideas at the forefront of sustainable business practices through a variety of formats, including creative panels, experiential workshops and out-of-conference interactivity. Approximately 500 companies participating in Opportunity Green - ranging from Fortune 500 powerhouses to cutting-edge start-ups - have all been carefully chosen via a rigorous vetting process and have demonstrated a commitment to showcasing the latest sustainable solutions and emerging green business practices as well as a dedication to ongoing collaboration with like-minded business leaders. For more information on the conference, visit www.opportunitygreen.com. |
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