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Hear the Change!
Posted by davidwfox on 17 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: media, people
Every day…another doom and gloom report…you could be forgiven for thinking the problems facing humanity are insurmountable. What gives me hope is that so many smart folks from the hi-tech field are moving into the sustainability. Folks like old acquaintance Doug Kaye:
Check out Dougs Social Innovation Podcasting Channel, an initiative with the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
“Social Innovation Conversations’ mission is to expand the reach of important and valuable knowledge to people who otherwise wouldn’t have access to it by recording and sharing the spoken words of thought leaders in all sectors and disciplines and offering listeners a multi-stakeholder perspective on the world grand challenges and social issues.”
The Gav Galks Green - Feels Good not Great
Posted by davidwfox on 04 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: people
CNet interviews San Francisco mayor, Gavin Newsom:
“I get a little nervous when I show up at these conferences and everyone’s jumping all over me to give me their plans and talk in global terms. The ‘what’ is never measured, the ‘how-to’ is never measured. Everyone’s got a plan. Who cares about these damn plans? What are you doing and how did you get there? How did you really roll back your (carbon dioxide) emissions?
….A big study came out about (carbon emissions of raising) cattle and meat. At all these environmental events they’re all eating meat and drinking bottled water… Continued at Cnet.
Go Gavin!
Adam Werbach announces SaatchiS
Posted by davidwfox on 31 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: business, company, people
Adam Werbach is a true leader in the green movement and today he announced another big deal - the launch of Saatchi & Saatchi S.
After years in the environmental movement he founded Act Now to help commercial enterprises green up their act. Now they’re taking the product and process innovation, grassroots workforce engagement, marketing developed by Act Now and syndicating it across the S&S network of offices - across the planet.
Saatchi & Saatchi are the people who launched the Prius so they know how to build consumer movements. SaatchiS will work with their clients to make them sustainable from the inside out.
What if a billion of us around the world decided it was time for something new and took small steps together to change the things we buy and the way we live?
What could a billion people accomplish?
To help answer that question we’ve formed Saatchi & Saatchi S. Our mission is to build a global movement of happy people living on a healthy planet.
We create sustainable visions for companies around the world and help them grow by embracing a grassroots approach to sustainability. Imagine your business becoming more profitable while helping your employees and your customers make the world a better place.
Now’s the time for you to do your part to unite those billion people. It’s time to take that step.
PS. They’re hiring!
Don’t Have $6k For A Ticket To TED? Watch Past Presentations Online
Posted by davidwfox on 26 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: events, people, video
One of the hottest event tickets of the year is the annual TED Conference held in Monterey. From its roots in technology, entertainment and design, the content has expanded to include science, business, the arts and the global issues facing our world. Over four days, 50 speakers each take an 18-minute slot, and there are many shorter pieces of content, including music, performance and comedy. There are no breakout groups. Everyone shares the same experience - and you can share some of it via nearly 200 videos, from which I’ve selected the following as most relevant to Greenr’s mission to “Accelerate the Change!”:
Janine Benyus: 12 sustainable design ideas from nature
William McDonough: The wisdom of designing Cradle to Cradle
Amory Lovins: We must win the oil end game
Larry Brilliant: The case for informed optimism & TEDTalks: Larry Brilliant
William Kamkwamba on building a windmill
John Doerr: Seeking salvation and profit in greentech
Jeff Bezos: After the gold rush, there’s innovation ahead
Craig Venter: A voyage of DNA, genes and the sea
Majora Carter: Greening the Ghetto
Enjoy!
Re-Designing the Industrial System
Posted by davidwfox on 25 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: biomimicry, business, company, people
In an extended Industry Week interview Interface, Inc. founder and chairman Ray Anderson calls for “…a vast, ethically driven, re-design of the industrial system, triggered by an equally vast mind-shift.”
Interface is one of the leading commercial exponents of the emerging science of biomimicry.
Take a few minutes to watch Anderson’s interview in The Corporation, and check out his profile at “The Purpose Prize” and Wikipedia. This man might just be the greenest CEO in the US.
