Don't miss this networking opportunity for every business interested in sustainability. Get your block reservation or sign up as a sponsor today.

GBR luncheons are held monthly, at noon, at the Strater Hotel, 699 Main Avenue in Durango.   

Green Business Roundtable

The Roundtable’s goals are simple – NETWORK, INSPIRE, EDUCATE, IMPROVE:  Enjoy lunch and network with advocates of sustainability; Improve our voice in the community; Improve our individual and company contributions to sustaining the environment. GBR is non-partisan.  For more information, please call Marybeth Morin at (970) 259-3583. 

Our attendees include main avenue businesses, home office entrepreneurs, city employees, and environmentally oriented businesses.

Reserve your spot today by phone to Marybeth Morin at
(970) 259-3583 or by email to marybeth@sanjuancitizens.org

Want to be added to the mailing list for our monthly GBR reminders? Click here, info@sanjuancitizens.org

GBR Block Reservation Form Download the form.

Guarantee your spot at this lunch, or better yet, secure your block reservation (see details below) for the entire season by contacting Marybeth Morin at (970) 259-3583 or marybeth@sanjuancitizens.org. Block Reservation form.


Congratulations to the 2011 Green Business Leadership Award (GBLA) winner: Linda's Local Food Café. We appreciate the efforts made by Linda’s Local Food Café and our other finalists, Alpine Bank and Open Shutter Gallery, to demonstrate leadership, risk and innovation in utilizing environmentally responsible, healthy and profitable business practices. Green Business Leadership Award nominations for 2012 will open this fall. Think about other businesses who meet the criteria for this award and consider nominating them! You can read the full article on all the Chamber of Commerce 2011 awards here, (or pdf version.)

This award is sponsored by the Green Business Roundtable and past recipients include: Shaw Solar, Carver Brewing Company, Tierra Group, LLC, Durango Coffee Company, Lorax Forest Care, James Ranch, Phoenix Recycling, Sunnyside Meats, Inc, The Smiley Building


Previous years' presenters from 2002-2011



Each GBR includes a local/organic foods catered lunch specifically created for our guests! Thus, your reservation is vital to GBR planning and costs. Here are your options:

Buy your season reservation
This is the best way to ensure your place at the Roundtable. Pay $15 per meal (plus a one-time fee of $6 for your own name tag). This saves you time as no monthly RSVP is required. If you can't attend, please consider sending a colleague in your place. Your reservation will be released at 12:10. Block Reservation form.

Monthly RSVP
Place a reservation by 9 a.m. on the Monday preceding the Roundtable. Payment commitment is implied with your reservation. Your reservation will be released at 12:10. No-shows and cancellations with less than 48 hours notice will be invoiced.

Walk-ins
At 12:10 we will release reserved seats not yet claimed. There is no guarantee with this option.

Season reservations
The cost for a season reservation is $135. (subtract $15 for each meeting that has already occurred). Luncheons are usually held on the second Wednesday of each month. (September-May). Please make check payable to San Juan Citizens Alliance, PO Box 2461, Durango, CO 81302. Season reservations may be purchased anytime for the remaining luncheons. Please contact Marybeth Morin for more details. There are no refunds for missed luncheons.

Receive recognition at each luncheon by helping our parent organization, the San Juan Citizens Alliance, bring in a range of speakers as well as offset the costs of providing this important networking opportunity. Contact Marybeth Morin at 259-3583 or marybeth@sanjuancitizens.org.
 
The Roundtable's goals are simple - NETWORK, INSPIRE, EDUCATE, IMPROVE: Enjoy lunch and network with advocates of sustainability; Improve our voice in the community; and Improve our individual and company contributions to sustaining the environment.  GBR is non-partisan. For more information or to secure your block reservation, please contact Marybeth Morin at 259-3583 or marybeth@sanjuancitizens.org.

Cost is $300 per session (September-December or January-May). You may sponsor the entire nine-month season for $500. Payment for the fall session is due August 31, 2011 and payment for the spring session is due December 28, 2011. Marybeth Morin (970) 259-3583.

 

The Spring 2012 Program:

January 11
10 year anniversary of GBR
Air Quality in the Southwest – Guest Speaker Patrick Cummins

February 8
Greening a Hotel: Two paths – The Doubletree Hotel and The Strater Hotel

March 14 
Localizing Energy 
Special Guest Speaker Pegeen Hanrahan, P.E.,  Mayor of Gainesville, FL

April 18 (Please note Non-standard date)
The Big Picture of Energy Options

May 9
From Farm and Ranch to Restaurant – James Ranch to Linda's Local Food Café

 


Thank You to Our Spring 2012 Sponsors

City of Durango
Cyprus Cafe and Eno
Durango Coffee Company

First National Bank of Durango
La Plata Electric Association
Mantell-Hecathorn Builders
Maria's Bookshop
Mercury Payment Systems
Mountain Bike Specialists
The Payroll Department
Phoenix Recycling
Rochester Hotel & Leland House


 

GBR Philosophy

To elaborate, the idea is to mimic the systems used by Rotary and other service clubs to influence the community:

  • We gather to enjoy lunch and network with other conservation minded business leaders. One can talk about anything of course, but if you can, bring the topic around to environmental issues. Perhaps projects or companies you have heard of or admire for their sustainability efforts.

  • We want to improve our own and our companies contributions to sustaining the environment. So hopefully we can exert some good peer pressure on each other to take back to work.

  • We want to improve our voice in the community. The environmentally willing, eager, and concerned business people of our community are not networked as well as could be, and as a result our voice is often marginalized compared to the groups that are well networked.

  • The rules are simple:

    • Any business leader who is committed to being more environmentally involved is welcome;
    • Any attendee does not necessarily endorse the views of any other;
    • One-hour monthly luncheons will run on a strict timetable, includes an approximate 20-minute presentation;
    • We are a non-partisan group and the group will make no policy statements.   

GBR History

The San Juan Citizens Alliance launched GBR in 2002 as an outreach program, and is already seeing spin off benefits such as renewable energy workshops, Chamber of Commerce awards to Green Leaders, and sales of energy efficiency devices. Help us by inviting business owners and managers to the lunches, which now average 100 attendees.

 

     
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