The ongoing story of the Coalition for Immokalee Workers is a model of place-based community action (grassroots) working through coalition, collaboration, and agreement rather than separation, disagreement and opposition. It’s about CSR, business human rights, and leadership.
It’s how Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner of Human... [Read more]
Monday, May 20th, 2013
Video Spotlight on Three Sustainability Leaders
Thursday, May 16th, 2013
Making Video Work Again and Again for Your Cause
Get on-board with Creative Commons License It will be in the best interest of the sustainability community to adopt the practice of using a Creative Commons license to increase not only the sharing of content, but the mixing of content to seed the Web with messages to educate, inspire and motivate our citizens. Seeding increases page rankings, advances the visibility of sustainability leaders, and... [Read more]
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
Alberta Canada Tar Sands: See for Yourself
It’s a place in Indigenous territories and rich in forests, wetlands and huge deposits of bitumen, a tar-like substance that’s turned into oil through complex and energy-intensive processes. You might have heard about the Tar Sands in connection with expanding the Keystone XL pipeline connecting Alberta, Canada with communities throughout the States of Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas,... [Read more]
Monday, April 1st, 2013
Clean Drinking Water: SolarBag’s Ambassador in Ecuador
Ambassador Programs Technological advancements need ambassadors who literally put the technology in the hands of those who would benefit significantly from its use – technology transfer at the one-to-one level. Over the last few years, Brand Ambassador Programs have been formalized and integrated into other PR, marketing, and social media initiatives. This post is about ambassadors as part... [Read more]
Friday, March 22nd, 2013
Oil Over Water in Ecuador
My interview of Barry Heidt of Sustainability Action Media (SAM) about his trip to Ecuador’s Achuar Territory occurred on March 22nd so with a nod to World Water Day we talked about water. You can’t talk about water in Ecuador without talking about oil. It will take a few minutes to read this blog post and less than an hour to take action. It will be time well spent in the service of... [Read more]
Tuesday, February 26th, 2013
Sustainability and Educating Women and Girls
Before becoming a sustainability advocate, I spent most of my career working with technology beginning with a Fire and Emergency Information Reporting System project for the City of Toledo (1975) moving in the early 80’s to technology companies. I first used an email system and a PC at Computerland (1983), having moved off mini-computers, and in 1999 began to market high tech products and services... [Read more]
Tuesday, February 12th, 2013
One Billion Rising and Three Voices of Sustainability
This is nearly the same title of a blog post I wrote in the last week of December. What I am writing here, however, updates you on the One Billion Rising, February 14, 2013 campaign and gives you three fresh faces of sustainability, a small sampling of those speaking on behalf of women and this campaign. First, a reminder of what One Billion Rising is all about. On 14 February 2013, V-Day is inviting... [Read more]
Sunday, February 10th, 2013
Investors Eye Long-term Sustainability
You should have read it in the Financial Times, but in case you didn’t bonds in the eurozone that scored well on environmental, social, and governance issues (ESG) “…tended to OUTPERFORM those that scored poorly.” It appears that in the aftermath of an economic collapse ESG factors are quite helpful or “useful.” Here’s the link to the Financial Times complete... [Read more]
Monday, February 4th, 2013
Indigenous Voices of Sustainability – Ecuador Trip
When your videographer colleague announces in March he is going to Ecuador in February you swing into action to get the word out and hopefully raise some money for his trip. This is no vacation, rather with the help of the Pachamama Alliance folks in Ecuador, a dive deep into the interior to interview shaman and get their views on the status of our Mother Earth. Barry Heidt left on February 2, 2013... [Read more]
Tuesday, January 1st, 2013
Sustainability Runs Deep: Fracking and You
Let’s start with a place. Here’s the video. It’s an infographic published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on data provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection that demonstrates Pennsylvania’s Natural Gas Production growth. In words: “Between 2009 and 2011, Pennsylvania’s natural gas production more than quadrupled due... [Read more]
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