The Realist Idealist

The buying power of the casual consumer can be harnessed to impact the environmental actions of business. We can get companies to make choices that are sustainable and transformative. And we can do it with the carrot …not the stick.
Watch this video (highly recommend the longer version) to see exactly how it works.

CarrotMob is [...]

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The more you dig into the actions of the Chinese against Tibet, the more cold and systematic their cultural genocide begins to appear.  Indeed “cold and systematic” is exactly what genocide is in the first place.  (Just ask the Rwandans whose recognized genocide took place in 1994, but which had indicators and events happening as [...]

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I am a Flickr addict. It’s no secret. And I have no shame in proclaiming it.
I’ve been known to spend hours on end, mouth agape, staring at some of the amazing work people around the world are able to capture and share with each other. This is one of my favorite contacts. [...]

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People can’t read enough about Obama. As such, the media can’t stop writing about him. As such, I feel like I’m reading and thinking about this guy (and this race) all the time. (…I also live smack in the middle of DC, so maybe that’s part of it too.)
When it comes to realistic [...]

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I like the idea of taking ideas or terms that people are familiar with and tweaking them for use in the social sector. In the case of this post’s title, I had enough backlash from two friends when I said “pimp” that I almost refrained from writing it. Almost. Maybe there’s something [...]

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You probably won’t be able to request paid time off on March 12, but on Favorday that’s not the point.

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Getting people engaged in their communities is something I’ve been working on for quite a while - or at least it seems like quite a while to me. From using alternative spring breaks as a catalyst to Active Citizenship with college students to working with company networks to increase corporate volunteerism to doubling the [...]

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Last week my boss asked me a question for which he claimed there was only one correct answer. No pressure, right? His question was, “is 100 million dollars a lot of money?”
Coming from the executive director of a medium-sized nonprofit (at least medium in budget size), I felt it was a bit of [...]

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“Small/Medium Enterprise?” Why bother delineating this different type of business when it comes to how business relates to the community or environment? “Corporate Social Responsibility” (CSR) is still taking form in societal consciousness for the most part. It is still not fully rooted in the minds of the general population. And then there [...]

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Same article on Huffington Post - jake brewer
Granted, the answer may very well be as two analysts recently told me: “Of course they would if the purchase means online properties and market share in profitable markets. And also, they’re Microsoft. So…yeah.”
But what if “yeah” was wrong? What if human energy, organizational memory, the brain power [...]

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