GETTING THE WORD OUT about green and sustainability products, services and initiatives. 
 
GOT A NEW GREEN LINE of products you're launching?  Goin' Green Guy can provide all the marketing communications services you need for an effective launch. 
 
 
 
 
Want to get the word out, loud and clear, about an established or new green product or service? Ask about our new promotional packages:  
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LIME

TURF
 
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SUSTAINABLE LIFE ON TIME WARNER CABLE TV, July 2010
 

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The NEOhaus Institute
 

Goin' Green Guy is co-founder and Marketing & Education Director

Building Green.Building Sustainability. Building Community.

Sunday, October 3,  1-5 pm
 
 
 
 
The Urban Ecovillage
 
attend the next Ecovillage Meeting
 
Monday, August 30th
at Hickory in Akron
 
Build-a-Rain-Garden
 
 
 
See photo highlights of the Spring 2010 Akron Home & Flower Show featuring the concepts of an Ecovillage.
 

The ecovillage will be a real working sustainable village located in an Akron residential neighborhood.

Classes, workshops, and tours of the village will be designed to teach people from all walks of life how to make their living space more healthy, harmonious, nontoxic, productive, energy and water efficient, carbon neutral, and ecologically-friendly.

Ecovillage demonstrates ecological ways of living that are accessible and affordable to people of all ages, ethnic/racial backgrounds, and income levels.

Whenever possible, Ecovillage will feature local environmental and ecological products and services, including:

  • Super insulation
  • Energy-efficient windows & doors
  • Greywater system
  • Co-op businesses
  • Community hall building and kitchen
  • Community garden and small free-ranging livestock
  • Indoor & outdoor mulching of organic waste
  • Supplemental heating unit
  • On-demand water heater
  • Water-saving fixtures
  • Solar photovoltaic panels
  • Green roof
  • Wind generator
  • Natural and recycled building materials
  • Natural flooring & furniture
  • Raingarden Xeroscape
  • Organic permaculture garden
  • Permeable hardscape


 
 
The Guy
 

Tom Crain, Goin' Green Guy founder, and owner of Aviary Creative, has been providing marketing services for the green industry via trade feature articles and marketing communications projects and consulting for the past decade. 
 
For a look at some recent projects getting the word out about the Green industry and sustainability practices, see:
 
 
 
Testimonials
 
Tom was very professional and an open minded thinker. He was exceptional in brainstorming sessions for magazine ad copy as well as ideas for articles in two of Conklin's quarterly magazines. He would always be open to meet with the art department and get their thoughts on stories and photos regarding articles and collectively work on how to "spin" a story for a certain readership. Tom was a pleasure to work with and the end result deliverables were exceptional because of his open-minded thinking.” May 13, 2008
 - Danny Glassic, Art Director, Conklin Company

 
"Tom displays very good writing skills. He has the ability to listen attentively to needs and creatively suggest solutions. He has wonderful networking abilities--knows many influential people in publishing and the PR world and knows how to utilize them.Tom loves to spend time on developing strategies and implementing communications and PR tactics to serve those strategies.He is exceptionally friendly and easy to talk to. He has an unassuming, non-threatening manner that works well in his PR role.I see Tom as having high integrity. Also, he seems to always put his clients first."
- Gary Lindberg, President, Pixel Farm Interactive, Minneapolis

 
"We went through several editors, but were fortunate to keep Tom on so long as he was instrumental in growing and polishing our start-up business newspaper. He was quite revered  amongst Boston's Route 128 business community for his interviewing finesse and his choice of words. Best writer I have ever worked with!
- Martin Rieder, former publisher of Boston's 128 News

 
“Tom gave me my first job in the newspaper industry. I will be forever grateful to him for the mentorship, guidance and opportunities he gave me.” June 4, 2008
--Jordan Stalker, former Editor, Epicenter Business News


“Tom is a very detailed oriented Marketing Specialist. Tom has an extremely creative mind and is great at expressing his ideas, as well as, listening to other associates ideas that are on his team. Tom's work ethic is the type that every company longs for at this level on the corporate ladder. Tom has a very honest and easy going personality and can lead an entire marketing team with ease.” June 1, 2008

- Kristi Templeton, Meetings and Incentive Manager, Conklin Company

“As professional colleagues, Tom and I worked on numerous print media projects together. His attention to detail and ''can do'' attitude proved invaluable when it came to high pressure deadlines and numerous client requests for changes in copy. Professionally and personally, Tom has never ceased to amaze me with his intellect, wordsmith and motivation. Any employer will be pleased to have him on their team.”” April 24, 2008
- Melissa Peloquin, Account Executive, Star Tribune
 

 


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