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About the Author

Sharon Rowe is the CEO of Eco-Bags
Products, Inc., which she founded in
1989. In 2010, the company became a
certified B Corporation.

ECOBAGS is the original reus-
able bag brand. Sold worldwide, it is
recognized as “Best for the World” by B Corporation for
social and environmental commitments and standards.
Sharon is a thought leader in social innovation and
sustainable and responsible production. She speaks regu-
larly on building profitable mission- and value-aligned
businesses. Sharon believes that business is a currency for
ideas that shape culture and can be used as a force for
good. Her speaking engagements have taken her wide and
far—from Yale University to Sing Sing Prison and from
the Nairobi Center for Innovation in Kenya to the Social
Venture Institute conference in the Hudson Valley.
She has been featured in Time, Glamour, Entrepreneur,
and the Wall Street Journal; on NPR’s Air America; and in
the award-winning documentary Bag It. ECOBAGS were
also featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show’s first Earth Day
episode in 2007.

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