Rebecca Wilkowski Photography is proud to be participating in this year’s Green Festival……the first green photographer and green wedding provider to ever exhibit at the San Francisco event!

Our studio is certified green by Greener Photography and is one of only 11 photographers in the country approved to be part of Green America’s Green Business Network. We are also an approved member of the Green Chamber of Commerce, Green Bride Guide, and Green Wedding Providers. Rebecca has received international recognition for her work, and particularly enjoys photographing weddings and working for environmental non-profits and local green businesses such as the Environmental Defense Fund, Veritable Vegetable, San Francisco Community Power, and others.

Rebecca Wilkowski Photography will be co-exhibiting with the following green vendors: Gorgeous and Green Events (sustainable wedding decor & floral), Karine Brighten Events (eco-friendly event planning), Sugar Beet Sweets (San Francisco’s first vegan bakery), and MyGoodGreetings.com (eco-friendly/recycled invitations). Each vendor has been hand selected for their high quality products/services and their green business practices and certification. Be sure to check us out at Booth #1014.

Green Fes­ti­val®, the nation’s largest sus­tain­abil­ity event, returns to the San Fran­cisco Con­course Novem­ber 6–7. This year’s Green Fes­ti­val theme is ‘Engage­ment,’ with excit­ing new ways to shop green, be inspired, get engaged and give back. Com­mu­nity mem­bers enjoy infor­ma­tive, insight­ful speak­ers, incom­pa­ra­ble green shop­ping, cut­ting edge eco-innovations, great live music, fun and edu­ca­tional fam­ily activ­i­ties, hands-on work­shops, organic wine and beer and deli­cious, local veg­e­tar­ian cui­sine.

Ten stages and pavil­ions give atten­dees the oppor­tu­nity to engage with 125 local experts and nationally-renowned authors, actors, lead­ers, edu­ca­tors, farm­ers and vision­ar­ies. Excit­ing keynote speak­ers include Bill McK­ibben, Amy Good­man, Thom Hart­mann, John Perkins, Dolores Huerta, Gil Friend, Karen Stew­art, Howard Brown, Kirk Boyd, Starhawk, Penny Liv­ingston, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, Ari Der­fel, Daniel Pinch­beck and many more.

Green Festival’s mis­sion is to inspire and inform as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble to help make our world more just and sus­tain­able.

“Green Fes­ti­val has some­thing for every­one,” says Green Fes­ti­val Board Mem­ber and Green Amer­ica Direc­tor, Denise Ham­ler. “Whether you go to shop, learn, try new organic foods or expe­ri­ence art and music, this event has it all, with the goal to moti­vate every per­son to think, par­tic­i­pate and make more planet-friendly, sus­tain­able choices in their every day lives.”

A project of Green Amer­ica and Global Exchange, two lead­ing non­profit orga­ni­za­tions ded­i­cated to envi­ron­men­tal and social jus­tice for more than twenty-six years, Green Fes­ti­val serves as a foun­da­tion to explore and build sus­tain­able solu­tions to ben­e­fit com­mu­ni­ties and the envi­ron­ment, dis­cover new environmentally-friendly prod­ucts and prac­tices and con­nect with like­minded indi­vid­u­als from all over the nation.

Green Fes­ti­val demon­strates an unmatched com­mit­ment to reduc­ing envi­ron­men­tal impact by reusing, recy­cling or com­post­ing 95 per­cent or more of fes­ti­val waste through the efforts of full-service green event man­age­ment com­pany Seven-Star Events.

To pur­chase tick­ets to Green Fes­ti­val or for more infor­ma­tion, visit http://greenfestivals.org.

I’m happy to announce that Rebecca Wilkowski Photography has been selected to be a member of Greener Photography (www.GreenerPhotography.org). Greener Photography is a place for the photographic community to consider the environment; learn to conserve and better preserve our resources and images; and connect by sharing suppliers, ideas, and methods. Together we can learn how each of us can be more green, advocate for change within our field, and provide a place for informed discussion about how we can make photography greener.

Photography is an art form that allows each of us to interpret the world around us. The nature of our tools and traditional materials makes photography a high-tech field; it is an energy-intensive activity. We believe that we can make our high-tech field more green by implementing environmentally-friendly practices, and encouraging suppliers to do the same. Here are Greener Photography’s four core values:

Preservation - Preservation conserves all of the resources that go into creating photographic images. It is the single best thing we can do to reduce the impact of our photographs.

Reduction - Reduce, Re-use, Recycle. While we are trying to produce the most archival products in our industry, we will do so while using the least energy-intensive products available.

Local Production - Shipping and transport are some of the biggest sources of pollution. Anything that can be produced, manufactured and assembled locally will have a significantly lower environmental impact than components manufactured overseas.

CrueltyFree - Animals and people are as much part of the eco-system as water, air, and trees. We do not see a difference between environmentally harmful products and those produced in harmful working conditions.