This Naturally Boulder Days Panel featured: Frances Draper, Patrick Rea, and Dr Richard Wobbekind.
Below are my notes from the session.
General Market Outlook
Huge problem: over-leveraged consumer and rising commodity prices (my thought: this will continue to get worse as gas prices rise longterm)
Colorado will be one of the first states to come out of the downturn. [...]
Dr Frederick Kirschenmann’s Naturally Boulder Days keynote was a fascinating talk focusing on the type of forward thinking it will take for us to avoid a total collapse of our current food system.
Below are the notes I took during the talk:
What are turbulent times?
The is the end of the industrial era. We need to prepare
We’ve [...]
Congratulations to Goddess Garden who edged out New Planet Beer by an audience vote as the last two standing in the Naturally Boulder Days Pitch Slam.
Though Goddess Garden has an entire line of skin care products, Nova smartly focused on her 70% organic sunscreen. The kicker product was the bonus UV bracelet that kids wear [...]
Naturally Boulder Days, now in it’s 5th year, started a new tradition last night by holding an awards dinner to recognize people and companies making a difference in the natural foods industry in Boulder. The winners were chosen by a panel from the dozens of submissions made by the community.
Best Young Business - Mix1
Mix1 - [...]
The preliminary round of the Naturally Boulder Days 2009 Pitch Slam is over. A little different from last year, the budding food entrepreneurs had 90 seconds to pitch, followed by a few questions from the judges.
Though only 17 pitches were made (as opposed to 25 last year), the quality was high - many of them [...]