Chamber U 21st Century Business: It's Great to Be Green! (Membership)

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Join us for this 21st Century Business session, on how your business can “Go Green”!  Chris Carmody, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development, will present this session. 

As a special door prize, the Durham Chamber will be offering one lucky small business a scholarship to become Green Plus Certified, a value of $450.00.  For more information on the Green Plus certification program, please go to: http://www.gogreenplus.org/

About Chris Carmody:

Chris Carmody serves as Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development. Chris has spent the better part of 20 years helping cities utilize social entrepreneurship, the arts and sustainability practices as catalysts for economic growth. After graduating from Oberlin College in 1989, Chris staffed Michael R. White in his successful bid to become Cleveland’s second African American mayor. He served in Mayor White’s cabinet in education policy and entrepreneurial government posts from 1990 - 1995, and on Cleveland’s Board of Zoning Appeals for six years. Chris holds an MBA from Case Western Reserve University, where he also served as graduate business student body president. In 1998, Chris founded the Greater Cleveland Film Commission, which brought over $55 million in new motion picture business to northeast Ohio including parts of Spider-Man 3 and films starring George Clooney, Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan. Chris has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in non-profit strategic management and politics at Oberlin College and Cleveland State University. In 2002 he was selected for the American Marshall Memorial Fellowship.

Chris has served as Trustee of several organizations promoting local business, social entrepreneurship, sustainability, economic development and the arts. Some of the boards on which he has served include the Greater Cleveland Partnership (www.gcpartnership.com); the Cleveland Film Society (www.clevelandfilm.org); Entrepreneurs for Sustainability (www.e4s.org); and the Civic Innovation Lab (www.civicinnovationlab.org). Chris managed the first campaign for public funding of arts and culture in Cuyahoga County.

For more information on the Chamber U program and upcoming speakers, please go to http://www.durhamchamber.org/chamber/programs/ChamberU.html  If you would like to present at a Chamber U session, or have suggestions for topics or speakers you’d like to see, please contact Kelsey Moore at (919) 328-8733 or by email at kmoore@durhamchamber.org

Priority seating is reserved for Chamber members.

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