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With Daniella Russo (Founder @ Think Beyond Plastic Innovation Forum)
Tue, Jul 22, 2014 @ 06:30 PM   $15   The Moderns, 900 Broadway, Ste 202
 
     
 
 
              

      
 
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<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #3366ff; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">Co-founder, <SPAN STYLE="color: #0000ff;"><A HREF="http://plasticpollutioncoalition.org"><SPAN STYLE="color: #0000ff;">Plastic Pollution Coalition</SPAN></A></SPAN> and <SPAN STYLE="color: #0000ff;"><A HREF="http://www.thinkbeyondplastic.com"><SPAN STYLE="color: #0000ff;">Think Beyond Plastic Innovation Forum</SPAN></A></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><STRONG STYLE="font-size: large; color: #323232; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><EM><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking on Beyond Advocacy: Addressing Sustainability with Innovation and Entrepreneurship</SPAN></EM></SPAN></STRONG></P>
<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #808080;"><STRONG STYLE="font-size: large; color: #323232; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><EM><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #808080; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;">How do we take environmental advocacy and turn the discussion into concrete action that makes a difference? By combining sustainability with innovation and entrepreneurship. By taking words about the environment into workshops, lessons learned about pollution into laboratories, transforming ideas about new environmentally friendly product platforms into real sustainable production.</SPAN></SPAN></EM></SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></P>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #323232;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; background-color: #ffffff; color: #808080;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #0000ff;"><STRONG>About<SPAN STYLE="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;">Daniella DimitrovaRusso</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV STYLE="color: #323232;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; background-color: #ffffff; color: #808080;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #0000ff;"><STRONG><BR></STRONG></SPAN><IMG STYLE="margin: 8px; float: left;" SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/27059681/screenshot20140619at12.53.24pm.png" ALT="DD Russo" WIDTH="200">Daniella Dimitrova Russo is co-founder of the Plastic Pollution Coalition,</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: #808080; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;">a global alliance of individuals, organizations and businesses working together to end plastic pollution and its toxic impacts on people, animals and the environment. In June she announced her new project, Think Beyond Plastic Innovation Forum, at the international Oceans Conference chaired by Secretary Of State, Kerry, where she was a speaker on marine pollution. Daniella told us: "The Forum a direct product of years of work on plastic pollution. What began as an advocacy endeavor has grown into an Innovation Accelerator that views plastic pollution as an innovation challenge, and encourages disruptive innovation and good business, in partnership with public interest towards the creation of sustainable B2B and B2C alternatives."</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; color: #808080;">Since 2009, Ms. Russo has been at the forefront of engineering a large scale disruption to the conventional plastic industry, with the goal to produce viable and sustainable B2B and B2C alternatives. The global strategy includes building consumer demand; enabling investment and entrepreneurship; and creating market and policy instruments supporting business growth.She led the formation of an entrepreneur-impact investor forum, which brought over 100 businesses to an annual competition and a conference on disruptive innovation; and later evolved into a Business Accelerator with focus on plastic pollution.</SPAN></DIV>
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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium; color: #808080;">Ms. Russo business approach leverages her executive managementexperience with NGO and for-profit businesses. Her greatest interest lies in developing strategies that bridge gaps, connect innovative approaches and cross-pollinate industries and markets. Her passion is creating <EM>keiretsus</EM> and nurturing businesses to survive and thrive through innovation.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium; color: #808080;">She serves on the Board of Advisors ofBLUE Ocean Film festival, and UPSTREAM, as well as <A HREF="http://www.pulpworksinc.com/" TARGET="_blank"><SPAN STYLE="color: #808080;">PulpWorks</SPAN></A>, Inc, NewGenSurgical and the executive committee of Trash Free Seas Alliance.</SPAN></P>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #323232;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #808080; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;">Paul E McGinniss,</SPAN><A STYLE="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;" HREF="http://www.newyorkgreenadvocate.com"><SPAN STYLE="color: #808080;">New York Green Advocate,</SPAN></A><SPAN STYLE="color: #808080; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;">has interviewed a stellar array of change makers including Sylvia Earle, Dean Kamen, Ray Kurzweil, Fabien Cousteau and Josh Fox.He is a featuredcontributor toEcoWatch. Paul has helped organize many environmental events including7 Nights of Awarenessfor the December, 2011 NYC premier of the documentary film "The Big Fix."</SPAN></DIV>
<P><SPAN STYLE="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 11.0pt;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; color: #808080; font-size: medium;">Paul is also a New York based real estate broker andgreen building and renovation consultant.He advises people on how to set up grid independent, zero net energy, resilient living situations. He is currently working with clients to establish grid protected, 100% self sustaining homesteads in The Hudson Valley and Catskill regions of New York.</SPAN><BR></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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