Tuesday, June 30, 2015

GWC will be at the County Fair for Watershed Demo on July 1, 2015




Visit Gallinas Watershed Council at the Marin County Fair Garden Tent and learn from Floating Islands West what a floating island can do to improve water quality at the Civic Center lagoon.

Kids 12 and under were FREE at the Marin County Fair on July 1, 2015. Kids love our watershed model. Even a few local politicians have learned about watersheds (see 2014 photo with Al Boro and Damon Connoly).


  • Learn about water
  • Fun and interactive
  • Spray “rain” on a watershed to follow the flow of water and spills
  • Outdoors learning for all ages
  • Demonstrates common sources of pollution
  • Find out how to reduce human impact
  • FREE!
See details here:
www.gallinaswatershed.org/county-fair-watershed-demo-july-1-2015.html

Monday, June 22, 2015

Environmental Forum of Marin Master Class 42

Attention Marin County!

Lets keep Marin County that special green place that it is!

If you agree then you are an good candidate for the upcoming 42nd Master Class with the Environmental Forum of Marin!

As a very proud new graduate of Master Class 41, Alex Kahl highly recommends this unique training to anyone who wants to learn about environmental advocacy in Marin.


Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Marin Green Drinks


Marin Green Drinks networking business mixers on April 14th, 5:30 PM on Lotus Cuisine of India in San Rafael, CA.

Speaker Jeff Marcous will be talking about creating a conscious culture in a business environment after a brief overview about Dharma Merchant Services.

Dharma Merchant Services provides essential card payment solutions for small businesses and nonprofits in the most cost-effective, caring, and conscious manner. Dharma is committed to sustainable practices and partners, and supports the community by donating 50% of net processing profits to charitable organizations that serve the greater good.


Wednesday, March 18, 2015

BLUE JEAN BALL 2015


ICS BLUE JEAN BALL 2015

GRATEFULly DEADicated 20th Year Anniversary
 
Saturday, May 2 at 4:30pm
Osher Marin JCC, 170 North San Pedro Rd, San Rafael

beer tasting • hors d'oeuvres • dinner • live music • raffle•silent auction • games • auction • photo booth • tarot card reading

Tickets are $80 each; tables of 10 are $550.

To Purchase tickets: www.connectics.org/

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Life Sciences Management Service Company offer by Inorgen Ltd.

Inorgen proposes general management services to life science industry companies and investment funds to develop operations in Europe.

MARKET OPPORTUNITY
The healthcare market in Europe is increasing in complexity with growing challenges:

Presence of a multitude of decision makers that influence the success of the products

Local specificities and cultural differences with stakeholders, providers, clients, opinion leaders and 
consultants that have a say in the development of company activities

People and countries with increasing interaction that have different rules, practices and languages

Need to support evidence and practice along the whole product lifecycle

OFFER

To face these challenges in a complex and competitive business environment, Inorgen proposes permanent and temporary management services with entrepreneurial approach, strategic focus and excellence in execution.

The offer is adapted to the company needs and it focuses on:
  •           Formulation of a sound and concentration strategy and action plan to access the market
  •           Management of an organization with solid business practices across different countries
  •           Sourcing of key talents to ensure the success of the global initiative
  •           Generating recurrent business that provides solid and constant results
  •           Alignment of expectations to the reality of the market to the capacity to deliver by the organisation
SKILLS
  •           The Inorgen offer is supported by the experience of its founder, in particular:
  •           Experience in the key areas that relate to general management
  •           Extensive cultural and linguistic expertise
  •           Access to a network of skilled and professional contacts to support a rapid action with effective solution.
Inorgen proposes general management services to life science and industry companies and investment funds to develop operations in Europe early/premarketing stage: Business plan, stakeholder validation, build premises for market entry

market entry: establish the organisation with key hirings, optimized tax & legal entities, partnering and takeover targets, build an infrastructure with processes, roll out the product launch.

Late marketing stage: performance monitoring, strategy optimisation, business development and scouting for new opportunities

The company offers services and solutions in a variety of areas:
  •           Corporate Strategy & Implementation
  •           Strategy formulation
  •           Corporate Analysis
  •           Geographic Expansion
  •           Market Entry
  •           Corporate  partnering
  •           Due Diligence coordination
  •           Investments
  •           Joint Ventures
Business Development
  •           Evaluation of new products, services & customers
  •           In / Out Licensing
  •           Lead generation
Strategic Marketing & Product Support
  •           Strategic plan & Action Plan
  •           Marketing Strategy
  •           Product Lifecycle Management
  •           Product Positioning
  •           Product Development
  •           HEOR, HTA & market access
  •           Product Launch
  •           New Indications & Applications
  •           Technology Acquisition
Sales, Operations & Finance
  •           Strategy Implementation
  •           Business process review
  •           Contract sales , sales force effectiveness, customer relationship management
  •           Project management
  •           Supply chain management
  •           P&L and Working capital optimization
  •           Set-up of financial and IT systems, cost controlling systems & procedures
  •            Tax optimization
  •           Legal compliance
For more information about life science management services offers by Inorgen call  +44 2032393933 or visit www.inorgen.com/.

Friday, January 16, 2015

Canadian American School offers Primary School, Nursery & Kindergarten Multi Language Learning.

Canadian American School Manila offers an international standards-based PK – 8 education with unique curricular programs in Preschool (Nursery, Toddlers, & Tots), Primary School (K – Grade 8), as well as modified and inclusive Special Education (2 – 14 Years) courses. Secondary School (Grade 9 – 12) programs will be offered in successive years as enrollment rises. 

Canadian American School is a Pre- & Primary School that follows a North American curriculum with a distinct focus on early multilingual learning that builds self-identity in a diverse, multicultural environment.

PHILOSOPHY

Applications for acceptance are on a first-come, first-served basis. Canadian American School have limited spaces and these cannot be guaranteed until an application is submitted, registration fees paid, and an assessment conducted.

CAS does not pre-screen for intelligence and aptitude children entering our Preschool and Kindergarten levels. The thinking behind this is that children in the early years, regardless of inherent abilities, will thrive in an environment that is both academically stimulating and emotionally nurturing. Modern pedagogical studies show that foreign language immersion during the early years helps young children increase their mental agility (mathematics), abstract thought and pattern recognition (language and physical science), and creativity (language and social sciences). Minimum testing, however, will be conducted to determine the starting competencies of children, so intervention may be tailor-fitted to their needs.

Student transferees from Junior (Grades 1 – 4) and Senior (Grades 5 – 8) Grade School levels at other schools are handled on a case-to-case basis and must sit for our Math and Reading Assessment Tests (conducted seamlessly during classroom instruction) to determine their grade level competencies. Aside from evaluating previous transcripts of record, these assessments will help determine any learning gaps that need to be bridged in order for children to reach their full potential while enrolled at CAS.

Preschool & Kindergarten

Language studies show that early immersion programs are more effective, resulting in faster language acquisition and learning of attendant skills sets, than foreign language programs begun during the middle and high school years.

At CAS, we go one step further, believing that bilingual or even trilingual — 1st + 2nd + 3rd languages — immersion and instruction should begin at the Preschool level.

Although most children may be unilingual with parents that may not be bilingual (to provide homework help), CAS Toddler, Tots, Junior and Senior Kindergarten Lead Language Teachers are native-tongue speakers experienced in instructing children with the primary aim of attaining language fluency at 6 years of age. They will be assisted by CAS Preschool Teachers for such co-curricular activities in Music & Movement, Creative Arts, and Science Discovery.

But what about English? CAS Kindergarten English Teachers are fluent English speakers that will provide language support so that children do not fall behind in CAS’s primary medium of instruction at the Grade School level — English.

Grade School

CAS Grade School students (Grades 1 – 8) will go through daily 50-minute classroom experiences with instruction provided by subject matter experts in the following areas of study: English Language Arts (ELA), Foreign Language (FL), Mathematics (MATH), Science & Technology (SCI), Social Science (SOC), Art (ART), Music (MUS), Physical & Moral Education (PME).

Parents must indicate prior to school start (on the CAS Application for Admission form) their child’s spoken language at home and 1st and 2nd choices for their child’s foreign language preference. If English is not spoken at home and the student is an English Language Learner, ESL is offered in class as well as an After-School Program.
Daily Hot Lunch Program

CAS offers daily freshly cooked, healthy meals with a child-friendly palate as part of its School Lunch Program. This program demands that an allergy awareness declaration be included in our Application for Admission form in order for parents to indicate whether their child suffers from any life-threatening allergic reactions that CAS should be made aware of.

After-School Programs

CAS offers a wide variety of co-curricular activities that support its core education program but that are also open to the public. From month to month, a schedule of After-School Programs will be posted. Each ASP is composed of hourly sessions once or twice a week, with increasing frequency in one week if a weekly session is missed, for a total of 8 hours/month. Some activities include Engineering & Robotics for Kids, French, Italian, and Mandarin Conversation & Culture, Ballet, and Piano for Kids. 

Summer School Programs

CAS will offer a fun and flexible summer school activities that will have students meeting instructors for an hour, twice a week, for monthly modules in July and August. Eight-hour programs meet on Mondays/Wednesdays or Tuesdays/Thursdays or Wednesdays/Fridays; some programs (ie, Saturday Writers Hangout, facilitated by Where The Write Things Are creative writing guru Neni Sta. Romana-Cruz) take place on Saturdays.

Tours & Exchanges

Supporting CAS’s core education program are co-curricular activities that take the children outside of school grounds. These external activities are aimed at supplementing learning in one of CAS’s 5 core subjects – English, Foreign Language, Mathematics, Science & Technology, Social Science. Parents will be asked to sign waivers releasing CAS from liability arising from any adverse incidents that may occur during the course of the tour or exchange.

Special Education Program

At the Canadian American School, we aim to provide a world-class education to our students. All students including those at-risk and children identified with special needs may seek admission provided that they adhere to school policies, guidelines, and our special education process. We provide an inclusive education where both typically developing children and those identified with special needs play and learn together to create a mutual respect and healthy understanding of diversity as we prepare them to become independent, productive, and globally competitive.

We work collaboratively with education professionals and other service providers (developmental pediatricians, school psychologists, occupational therapists, speech and language pathologists, physical therapists, play and family therapists, etc) to complete educational assessments and monitor program plans to help students meet the demands of their respective grade levels.

For more information about Canadian American School and its programs, please look over the programs, philosophies, and fees on our website: www.canamschool.org. Call (02) 737-0034 or email info@canamschool.org to set up an appointment for a tour of our school facility located on the 6th floor of The City Club Alphaland Makati Place www.cityclub.com.ph.

   

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Energy Training and Business Advisory Holmwood Consulting Ltd



Holmwood Consulting Limited is an international provider of top industry training and consultancy in LNG, Natural Gas and Energy offering independent business advice, management consulting, executive briefing and energy training.

As a focused LNG, Natural Gas, Oil and broader Energy consultancy, Holmwood Consulting Limited with its in-depth knowledge of the global energy markets and developments delivers independent strategic consultancy, key market analysis, executive briefing and training services.

Services:

LNG, Natural Gas & Energy

Holmwood Consulting Limited delivers knowledge transfer through objective advice, training and consulting to address the real and differing business issues that clients are facing around the world helping them to resolve their unique challenges. Beyond just informed third party comment, we actively seek to give our clients the real information required to take the critical decisions that move businesses forwards. It helps its clients achieve these clear business goals by flexibly applying the Energy and broader Industry expertise of its principal, and selectively utilizing the wide experience and extensive knowledge base of our Associates, who have worked for many years as Directors, senior managers and industry business professionals.
Holmwood Consulting operates in primary areas:

1.     Industry Training:

The primary service provided by Holmwood Consulting Limited is Capability Building, Knowledge Transfer and Executive Briefing for international client companies – both direct contracted and via third-party providers. We have an established international reputation and are widely involved with training and capability building on commercial, markets, trading and technical aspects across the whole of the LNG supply chain, and in the oil and natural gas industries. Building on the core energy industry knowledge and proven business skills of its principal and a select network of top experts, we continuously endeavour to develop new courses and to lead market requirements across LNG and broader energy. The involvement doesn’t usually stop at the end of any knowledge transfer activity as much of our activity is repeat business with clients and delegates continuing to seek advice from us well after the training has finished.
Holmwood Consulting creates customised energy training, provides key executive briefings and gives in-company courses reflecting both specified needs and our areas of expertise to develop or update our clients’ staff. Classroom training gives participants the opportunity to interact with a live instructor and other trainees and, we believe embeds key learning more effectively. Such tailored, instructor led courses are designed to be interactive in nature and can be industry knowledge or business skill based. There really is no educational system provided that is worth more than learning from the experience of a 30-year veteran in the industry.

Holmwood Consulting Limited’s knowledge transfer occurs primarily via two types of training provision:
(i) In-company courses, Executive Briefings and Workshops
(ii) Public courses and Seminars

Holmwood Consulting Limited seeks to ensure that all such developed courses emphasize practical learning by encompassing interactive sessions, current market case studies, syndicate study exercises and, where appropriate, challenging debate to ensure a high level of attendee participation and knowledge transfer. Delegates are typically drawn from NOCs, IOCs, natural gas companies, LNG shipping companies, trading organizations, Regulators and Government Ministries, equipment & service companies and professional service firms, as well as financial institutions that serve the Oil & Gas business.

2.     Business Advisory and Consulting

Holmwood Consulting provides a distinctive approach by active involvement in the global business, challenging the conventional industry norms and in some cases forecasting trends. Change and volatility are perhaps the only constants in the global energy marketplace today, but change should not be feared as it brings opportunity for many industry players. Small in size, Holmwood Consulting Limited has proven ability to deliver real and lasting value with a growing reputation built around providing top quality, in-depth, objective delivery and ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction.

It also increasingly makes sense to have a knowledgeable external third-party involved as a “Trusted Adviser” or “Client Friend” in natural gas and LNG projects, in much the same way as using an architect often ends up saving money on building projects, even the comparatively small ones.

Holmwood Consulting Limited is wholly focused on the energy sector and welcomes the opportunity to discuss client issues and propose a delivery approach to assignments using an appropriate combination of our Principal and Associates. This allows us to effectively provide the best possible approach at key levels within an organization covering typically:

  • Strategic: Gas Market Studies, New Market Entry, Development of LNG
  • Tactical: Gas Market Review and Analysis, LNG Exports & Imports, Commercial & Pricing, Trading and Logistics
  • Operational: Commercial and Contractual Management, Specification and Evaluation of support systems/ procedures

Holmwood Consulting welcomes the opportunity to discuss client issues and propose an approach for the development of the required insights.

The People

An independent, professionally based specialist industry training and business advisory company, Holmwood Consulting Limited provides consultants with a strong mixture of hands-on international energy and diverse business backgrounds. Holmwood Consulting Limited provides a core team who are highly qualified, with most having first degrees and many with post-graduate qualifications together with a record of proven success and demonstrated accomplishment across the international energy and utilities industry over many years.

For more information about LNG, Natural Gas and Energy consultancy and training contact Leigh Bolton of  Holmwood Consulting at telephone +44 (0)20 8408 3696. www.holmwood-consulting.com/