From: Ben de Vries <bendevries1968@gmail.com> Subject: Your invitation to a work party Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 11:50 AM This is the invitation: WORK PARTY! March 2010 Tropical location, from Florida ~$300 round trip, passport required. If enough people get on the same plane a group rate is possible. We will be doing work on […]
Category Archives: people
Hear the Change!
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 […]
The Gav Galks Green – Feels Good not Great
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? […]
Adam Werbach announces SaatchiS
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 […]
Don’t Have $6k For A Ticket To TED? Watch Past Presentations Online
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 […]
Re-Designing the Industrial System
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, […]