If you want to find out more about the Green Business Forum you can click here to listen to my interview on the ChinaBusinessNetwork with Christine Lu. Mind you it was 1am Shanghai time when I was answering these questions.

The Green Business Forum is an important event for me, as it is my first attempt to get a large community behind a movement–a movement that matters. If you are reading this blog now, we are only three days away from the first Green Business Forum in Shanghai. I want to get people thinking, I want to get people active, and I want people to actually care about how they are conducting their businesses. What we are trying to achieve with the forum is simple, get you active and give you the tools to make a difference. Roots & Shoots, Greennovate, 350.org and JUCCCE are all excellent companies and organizations that will be able to help you as an individual, as a manager, as a business owner to really make a difference.

If you want more information about the Green Business Forum click here.

The Forum is on Saturday, July 12th from 2 til 6pm at the Grand Hyatt in Pudong

How bad does it have to get, before we decide as a collective whole that the way we live, build our businesses, and plan for the future is flawed? I am not saying we are at a doomsday moment, but why wait until we get there before making change? Changing now will be less painful and less costly.

It is time for all of us to get active and make a difference. The NextStep Green Business Forum is going to do just that. I was inspired by the efforts of several individuals living here in Shanghai and their desire to bring about environmental change. I coupled that with a recent viewing of the award winning documentary The 11th Hour, and I decided that I could make a personal effort to enact change. The Green Business Forum is my personal call to action to give business owners, managers, and everyone else the tools and know-how to make simple changes in our daily business practices that can ultimately have enormous effect on the greater community.

The Green Business Forum will be held on Saturday, July 12th from 2-6pm at the Grand Hyatt Hotel (JinMao Tower) in Pudong. Entry fee is 250 RMB, 25% of which will be donated to Roots & Shoots and Greennovate.

You can reserve a seat by emailing us at RSVP@nextstepshanghai.com

Find out more event information by clicking here  or you can check out the July 3rd issue of CityWeekend to read an interview of me and Peggy Liu of JUCCCE.