Cycling at Green Festival

Green Festival Bike Valet

My daughter Emma and I are at the Chicago Green Festival. Clif Bar
offering free bike valet.

Ecotools Look Gorgeous

EcoTools Look Gorgeous, Love Green Campaign giving out free blush
brushes in front of Chicago Tribune Tower from 6am-6pm today. If you
bring in old bath/body product or makeup brush, they will give you max
of two coupons (up to $7.99) towards EcoTools product.

Bare Escentuals Visits Chicago

Bare Escentuals was at Madison & Canal (in front of Ogilvie
Transportation Center) today from 12-6pm. Was shocked to see them
there - I've seen people hand out product samples but can't recall a
company offering makeovers on a busy street. The slogan on their
coupon: "Rethink Going Bare in Public".

On Twitter last week they announced that they were visiting Wrigley
Field. They said they will be at State Street (go to Rethinkwhatmatters.com
for exact address later) tomorrow and at Ulta Lincoln Park (old
Whole Foods Market location) on Saturday.

Bare Escentuals Quickie Van

Bare Escentuals is taking its Quickie Van around Chicago. Offering 5
minute "make-unders", a sample, and a coupon for a free Handy Buki
Brush ($20 value) with purchase of their foundation.

MORE Gift Bag

Here is the gift bag from the MORE Reinvention Convention along with
gifts from exhibitors. A chocolate cupcake from morecupcakes was also
handed out.

Race for the Cure

Ambassador Nancy Goodman Brinker talked about the promise she made to
her late sister Susan to cure breast cancer. She started the Susan G.
Komen for the Cure foundation in 1981 with $200 after her sister died
in 1980 at the age of 36.

She said that "35 years ago cancer was the big C. People thought it
was contagious, no support groups....The day I saw people cross the
street to avoid my sister, my heart was seared."

Nancy spoke about the power of one: "power that each person has to
make a difference."

Today Susan G. Komen for the Cure is the world's largest breast
cancer organization and a pioneer in cause marketing.