[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 13296]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


    RECOGNITION OF MARY GREEN AS RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA INTERNATIONAL 
                       SOCIETY'S WOMAN OF VISION

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                           HON. NANCY PELOSI

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, June 20, 2008

  Ms. PELOSI. Madam Speaker, the recent Retinitis Pigmentosa 
International Society's presentation of its Woman of Vision Leadership 
Award to San Francisco-based activist and fashion designer Mary Green 
is an excellent occasion for this body to take note of the unique and 
innovative manner in which Mary has employed her burgeoning business 
success to improve the lives and work conditions of women in developing 
countries around the world.
  Mary Green is a visionary of ethical and sustainable 
entrepreneurship, a creative and compassionate strategy that other 
American business leaders might find rewarding, encompassing both good 
humanism and good business. The Vision Award saluted, along with her 
design skills, her commitment to creating better lives for people 
living in the shadow of poverty and deprivation throughout the third 
world. Mary Green's signature is adapting and uniting the unique 
artistic skills of workers in various countries with their innate 
entrepreneurship. By doing so she has created stable business 
communities that have emerged to produce her exceptional fashion 
designs. It is her creative humanism that truly makes her a woman of 
vision.
  A committed activist in many areas of social improvement through 
activities in the business world, nonprofit entities and humane 
governmental activities, from solar power cooperatives to stem cell 
advancement, Mary Green's most notable achievements have been in the 
area of developing business solutions that address society's most 
pressing problems. It is the human dimension of sustainable business, 
including the empowerment of women, which operates as a key factor in 
all of her work. Mary Green personifies what is great about sustainable 
entrepreneurship: the blend of human and natural capital creating a 
community of trust and happiness with the creation of a valuable 
product that transcends the focus on immediate monetary reward. We are 
all the beneficiaries of the vision of Mary Green.

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