31 Days of Notable Women- Beyonce, music/ business mogul

Beyoncé Knowles, the 29 year old singer, actress, dancer, and clothes designer made it to Forbes World’s Most Powerful Women list for 2010 with earnings of over $35 million dollars. The Houston-born diva ranks unusually low on our list this year because she didn’t tour or release an album over the past year. But her fourth solo effort “4” is on the way. The simple title was reportedly selected by her fans and is also a nod to her April 4th wedding anniversary with hubby Jay-Z. In the absence of new revenue on the music side, business-focused Beyoncé cashes in on her clothing line “Dereon” and massive endorsement deals with L’Oreal, DirecTV, and General Mills.

Source cited: http://www.forbes.com/profile/beyonce-knowles

31 Days of Notable Women- The World’s Most Powerful Woman

According to Forbes list of the “World’s Most Powerful Women of 2010”, Angela Merkel, is the most powerful woman on the planet. Angela Merkel is the Chancellor of Germany, who oversees Europe’s largest economy. Renowned free-market champion and favorite of big business, boasts nine public companies with annual sales in excess of $70 billion. In all, there are 57 German companies on the Forbes Global 2000 ranking of the world’s largest public companies, with aggregate sales of $1.7 trillion.

Source cited: http://www.forbes.com/profile/angela-merkel

31 Days of Notable Women- Martha Duggan, green economic development

Martha A. Duggan serves as Vice President, Government and Regulatory Affairs for United Solar Ovonic (a division of Energy Conversion Devices), headquartered in Rochester Hills,Michigan.  United Solar is the leading global manufacturer of thin-film flexible solar laminate products for the building integrated and commercial rooftop markets.  Ms. Duggan is responsible for policy development and advocacy before state, federal and international governments and energy regulatory bodies.  Prior to joining United Solar, Ms. Duggan served as Vice President, Government Affairs for SunEdison, a leading solar integrator.  At SunEdison, Ms. Duggan managed a team of solar policy experts across North America.

Source cited: http://www.solaralliance.org/about-us/officers-and-staff.html

31 Days of Notable women-Gail Kelly, businesswoman par excellence

Gail Kelly, Chief Executive at Westpac (Education: BA/BS,University of Cape Town)

As head of Australia’s second-largest bank, Westpac, with $551 billion in assets and $15.9 billion in revenue, and the country’s most influential businesswoman, the native South African has an outsized public profile.

Source cited: http://www.forbes.com/profile/gail-kelly#comments

31 Days of Notable Women- Irene Rosenfeld, brilliant business woman

Irene Rosenfeld, CE at Kraft Foods,USA

Education: BA/BS,Cornell University; PHD, Cornell University; MS,Cornell University

Her $26.3 million compensation package in 2009 made Rosenfeld the nation’s second-highest-paid female, after Yahoo’s Carol Bartz. She earned it, drawing fire early this year after announcing plans to acquire British candy maker Cadbury. Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway owned 9.4% of Kraft, voted against the deal, calling it “dumb.” When Rosenfeld refused to back down, Buffett retaliated by selling 33.1 million Kraft shares (one-third of Berkshire’s stake). Who was right? Kraft’s second-quarter revenues rose 25.3% to $12.3 billion, boosted largely by Cadbury’s business in Europe and in developing markets.

Source cited: http://www.forbes.com/profile/irene-rosenfeld

What is an environmental landscaper?

The FireWalker Flare- An Environmental and Renewable Energy Solutions Talk Radio Show

 

Join Diane Tegarden as she engages Environmental and Renewable Energy Experts on the second, third and fourth Tuesday of each month at: 10am PST/11am MST/ 12 noon CST/ 1pm EST for a half-hour riveting interview on environmental problems and their solutions through Renewable Energy technologies. Hope to hear from some of you, come ask your questions, it’s free to call in!! Callers and Show Guests should call our toll free# 877-221-6957 

Our guest on April 19^th will be Sue Reed, an ardent environmentalist and businesswoman, and we’ll be discussing environmental landscaping.

Visit the show’s home page at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Diane-Tegarden

To read Diane Tegarden’s environmental articles please visit:
http://www.examiner.com/x-14744-LA-Renewable-Energy-Examiner

31 Days of Notable Women-Wendy Steele, woman inventor

Wendy Steele and Bob Root are the founders and inventors of Keys Soap

Keys Soap first announced the introduction of its new line of all-natural, chemical-free therapeutic liquid bath and hand soaps in March 29, 2005. Keys liquid soaps are holistic, soothing, therapeutic soaps for people with sensitive, allergic or affected skin. They contain only pure ingredients with no man-made chemicals or fragrances. Our soaps do not contain skin irritants like SLS, parabens, propylene glycols or DEA.

Source: http://www.keys-soap.com/soapstory.html

31 Days of Notable Women-Sarah Severn, Env Director for Nike

Sarah Severn, Director of Horizons, Corporate Responsibility, Nike Inc
Global Director of Corporate Responsibility Horizons Nike, Inc.

Sarah Severn has an extensive background in consumer research and advertising prior to joining Nike where she has spent the last 14 years in a variety of roles. Originally recruited in 1993 to establish a consumer insights department in Nike’s European headquarters she moved into an environmental role and in 1995 relocated to World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon as Global Director of the Environmental Action Team. From 1995 to 2000 she led the company’s early efforts to integrate sustainability into the business, from operations through to product design and manufacturing.

In June 2000 Sarah was appointed Director of Sustainable Development. In this role she focused primarily on stakeholder engagement, corporate responsibility reporting and the identification of emerging issues. In 2005 Sarah took on the newly created role of Director of Horizons within the Corporate Responsibility team. The Horizons function has responsibility for “looking long” and identifying future trends, opportunities and issues at the intersection of business and sustainability. For the past 10 years she has lead Nike’s efforts around climate change and is also now focused on developing Nike’s climate change advocacy strategy.

Source: http://www.focusthenation.org/node/1182

31 Days of Notable Women- Christiana Figueres, Climate Change

Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change

Ms. Figueres became Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in May 2010. With a long and distinguished career in the field, Ms. Figueres was a member of the Costa Rican negotiating team 1995- 2009. She represented Latin America and the Caribbean on the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism in 2007, and was then elected Vice President of the Bureau 2008-2009. One of the most skilled mediators of the Convention, she was frequently asked to chair controversial negotiations. She conceived the new financial instrument “programmatic CDM” with four groundbreaking publications that have marked global thinking on this novel concept.

Source: http://figueresonline.com/

31 Days of Notable Women- Women and the Green Economy- Hillary Clinton

The Women and the Green Economy Campaign was designed to promote sustainability and solutions to climate change, and to accelerate and provide the new thinking and creative power for a global post-carbon economy.

The Earth Day Network engaged women in business, government and Non-governmental organizations to be its leaders for their “Women and the Green Economy (WAGE) Campaign”. Their goal is to create a policy agenda and relevant national initiatives that will promote the green economy, secure educational and job training opportunities for women and channel green investment to benefit women.

The first WAGE Campaign was launched at the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties in Cancun, Mexico on December, 2010.

Here is one of the key participants: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who created a new office for women at the US State Department.

Source cited:
www.earthday.org/campaign/women-and-green-economy-wage