09/22/2022
Last night, at Great Lakes Brewing Company a new chapter of environmental awareness opened its doors. On the skirt tails of Holly Harland who forged E4S (Entrepreneurs for Sustainability) way back in approximately 2000, Victoria Avi & Stephanie Corbet joined forces to re engage the Cleveland community with ECO SPEAKS! (www.eco speaks.com)
Pat Conway, co-owner of GLBC, donated the space and the music and gave a celebratory speech on the return of connecting Cleveland business and environment for earth justice.
Many of the “old timers”, myself included, held back tears as we pulled on memories of a “Green Family “ So many of us found refuge with on the third Tuesday of each month, now reunited. Personally I cannot say enough about E4S, it’s origins and how it build my businesses both Green Clean and PlanetGreen and gave me support as a single mother of four children, new entrepreneur, and my ground up creations that went from kitchen counter product making to a 30 employee “grown up” business in 2002. To all of my friends and family connected in sustainability and Cleveland, we are back! A big shout out of thanks to the force of nature that is Stephanie Corbett and victoria Avi along with Holly Harlan who will always be the goddess of green in my eyes. For those who missed out on being there I missed seeing you in the room. , , ,  mills and so many more.