Hosted by Clean Air Lawn Care, the Clean Air Institute's Green Business Certification will be held in Fort Collins, Colorado, one of the country's green hubs. Join us for a fun filled, exclusive weekend with nationally renowned green entrepreneurs, executives and government leaders. Receive your Clean Air Green Business Certification upon completion of the course.

$699 Per Person $1199 Per Couple

• KELLY GIARD
  CEO & Founder, Clean Air Lawn Care
• JOHN ARMSTRONG
  City of Fort Collins Climate Wise
• STEVE MARKEY
  Head of Sales, Sprig Toys
• JAMIE GORMLEY and JOHN NEWMAN
  VP & General Manager and Director of Sales & Marketing, National Recycling
• TARA BUNCH
  VP, Hewlett Packard Global Customer Support Operations

• Clean Air Lawn Care National Headquarters
• New Belgium Brewery Taste & Tour
• North Aztlan Community Center: LEED Certified facility
• National Recycling Processing Center

Instructive seminars will give you the tools to green your business and become a green entrepreneur in your field. Topics include pioneering the green economy, green marketing, scaling your green business, greening your operations, funding options & tax considerations, developing partnerships, sales, and customer service in the green economy.

KELLY GIARD, CEO & Founder of Clean Air Lawn Care
Clean Air Lawn Care, Inc. is a national franchise offering environmentally friendly mowing and organic fertilization. Kelly Giard started the company in his garage in 2006; Clean Air Lawn Care now has 23 territories nationwide and expects to surpass 50 by the end of 2009. His expertise includes green business innovation, building a successful service business, and fly fishing. Among other topics, you will hear about how he made solar powered lawn mowers profitable, Clean Air Lawn Care's revolutionary employee Emissions Reduction Incentive Program, and raising 'green' investment capital.

JOHN ARMSTRONG, City of Fort Collins Climate Wise Program
Climate Wise is a voluntary, city-run program that is dedicated to helping local business and the environment. Through environmental assessments and creative solutions, the City of Fort Collins Climate Wise Team helps businesses tackle modern-day business challenges that impact bottom lines and the quality of life in Fort Collins. There are currently 120 elite local companies that have joined Climate Wise program helping to make it one of the Top 50 Innovative Government Programs.

STEVE MARKEY, Head of Sales at Sprig Toys
Sprig Toys is an eco-friendly company dedicated to making the best toys the right way. Inspired by their collective desire to keep kids active and the planet healthy, Team Sprig is dedicated to infusing creativity, smart design, quality manufacturing, earth-friendly materials, product satisfaction and responsible business practices into a superior line of fun, kid-powered toys.

JAMIE GORMLEY, Vice President/General Manager, National Recycling & JOHN NEWMAN, Director of Sales & Marketing, National Recycling
National Recycling Inc. is a full service commercial recycling/shredding company offering complete waste-stream management services.

TARA BUNCH, Vice President Hewlett Packard Global Customer Support Operations
Hewlett Packard spans 132 countries with 32 languages and manages over 300 million customer contacts per year. HP views customer support as a clear opportunity to differentiate its products and services and is committing hundreds of millions of dollars towards this end. Tara is responsible for driving a total transformation of HP's support IT & customer operations with the goal of achieving industry leading customer support in the next two year and manages HP's Global Customer Support Operations. She will share her approach to making support and services a key customer differentiator and how this can be a winning formula in an increasingly competitive marketplace.