I had the chance to attend the Sustainable Enterprise Conference in Sonoma this past Friday. It was an opportunity to get plugged in on local efforts, campaigns, and ventures in the realm of sustainability.It was a great experience—I was struck by the sense of community within the sustainable enterprise movement. Like a tuned ecosystem–many of […]
You may have heard of a for-profit corp and a non-profit corporation…but there’s a good chance you haven’t met B yet. A B corporation is one that integrates business objectives with social standards and sustainability considerations. B corporation certification requires meeting specific criteria with regards to: transparency social & environmental performance enhanced legal accountability documentation […]
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design and it is a pretty fascinating social innovation experiment aimed at sharing big ideas by thought leaders in those fields—and posting those talks online for all of us to glean something from.This is an interesting one by Melinda Gates. She explains the concept of aspirational marketing–using the ubiquity […]
Intrigued? I definitely was when I read a recent blog post from the Stanford Social Innovation Review titled “Monk, Architect, Diplomat” by Mark Albion.Don’t hold your breath for a punchlineAnd it turns out the post didn’t just have a witty title to pull readers in, well, unwittingly (on that note I will admit that I […]
I find myself thinking about how social media would have impacted the journey of historical figures in the past. Would Gandhiji have been able to explore nuances of ahimsa and satyagraha through reading comments to his latest posts by other thought leaders of the time…would blogging about his fasts and marches have hindered or helped […]
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