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Yoga Instructor to Trucking CEO; Caitlin Welby’s Journey to the Driver’s Seat at RFX

How did an art school grad, yoga instructor, who was so against car culture that she didn’t get her drivers license until she was 28 end up the CEO of a trucking company? We didn’t believe it either. 32 year-old Caitlin Welby may not be the youngest CEO, but this drifter’s “road less traveled” recently landed her squarely in the driver’s seat of a sixty year old trucking company founded by her grandfather. RFX (which stands for Refrigerated Food Express) was founded in 1952 by Welby’s grandfather, Thomas E. Welby, Sr. and then run by her grandmother and her father until his death in 2000. The self-described punk rock artist was repulsed by the dirty business of trucking and preferred to wander the planet than to step foot near her father’s business—which she felt was destroying the planet. After spending her twenties traveling as a countercultural, eco-conscious bohemian, Welby gravitated toward leadership training and found a somewhat unsettling affinity toward …

20 Universities That Encourage Green Living

1) Nanyang Technical University – School of Art, Design and Media - The architectural structure of this building maximizes interior daylight, makes smart use of lack of space and land in the local area, minimizes materials, and uses lower water and electricity uses. 2) Yale University – Kroon Hall - Kroon Hall at Yale University is made from 80% certified timber, 16% recycled content. Also, 34% of the purchased materials came from regional sources. As a result, there is an 81% reduction in annual potable water use, which saves an average 500k gallons of city water a year. They are also seeing a 61% reduction in energy use compared to a similar building and program. It features rooftop photovoltaic panel providing 25% of the building’s electricity. Half of the red oak paneling came from a forest in northern Connecticut that’s managed by the school itself. 3) Carnegie Mellon University – Gates and Hillman…

Join Us at the OC Business Summit, Showcase Your Business

Greenbusinesses.com will be attending the OC Business Summit this Saturday at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA. We plan on interviewing panelists and attendees at the event and look forward to hearing the brightest minds discuss business development, entrepreneurship, and marketing. We'll be asking questions about the role of sustainability in the bigger business picture. We'd love to see you there! We will have our video crew there all day to conduct on-camera interviews of attendees and local businesses, so if you have a product, company or service to showcase, Greenbusinesses.com editor Amanda Crater will be conducting and posting interviews from the event. Please email Steve Shepherd at to learn more. If you contact us right away, you can join us for a group discount of 0nly $40 each. Last year's summit was a huge success! With thousands of attendees. 2014 Speakers at the OC Business Summit include: Malcolm Gladwell is …