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The Gift of Slow Time

November 1, 2010

The ability to hold a longer time horizon in mind is essential to making sustainable choices in life and work. One tool — music — has an extraordinary ability to foster the sense of space and a slowing of time. The natural reaction to feeling inner and outer space is deeper breathing and a different mindset. [...]

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Creating Community with Sustainable Style: Opera at the Ballpark

October 7, 2010

At The Idea Hive, our professional and personal focus is on sustainability: on advancing businesses and individuals down the path to living more lightly on the Earth with progress towards social equity. So when we accepted a contract to introduce Twitter to the San Francisco Opera, we had a little pause. How is helping the [...]

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A Second Chance For A Bright Green Future

September 16, 2010

I woke up early on Saturday morning and went to Jail. Of the previous two actions, I do one hardly ever, and the other one even less. San Quentin Prison, The Q, perched atop the rocky shores of the San Francisco Bay and home to over 5,200 inmates, is not the first place I thought [...]

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Our Nine Planetary Boundaries

August 31, 2010

It is clear that the global poor are going to be disproportionately affected by the growing spate of environmental catastrophes in the 21st century, such as the terrible and historic flooding in Pakistan. If we want to preserve and increase global well-being, we need to take responsibility for the systemic causes of these environmental issues, [...]

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Becoming Part of Global Mind

August 16, 2010

photo credit: MikeBlogs The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect. Carson McCullers To deal with the global challenges we are facing as a species, we need to choose to become part of [...]

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The Subtle Art of Provoking Serendipity

July 26, 2010

photo credit: Jillian Rose Taylor You don’t reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings … serendipitously. – John Barth, The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor A teacher of ours at the GreenMBA, Julianne Maurseth, likes to say, “People gather [...]

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Being a Network

July 19, 2010

I was reading Living Networks by Ross Dawson, and I found that table 6-1 – Action Steps to Building Network Presence shows how thinking like a network really helps an organization to be more effective. The bullet points below all came from this list, but I felt inspired to rearrange them slightly so that I could gain [...]

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Two Pathways to the Future

July 9, 2010

It strikes me that the footsteps of human behavior primarily follow two well-worn paths, which are beautifully illustrated in this mural (which can be found at Capp & 24th St in San Francisco). Here is a short Prezi telling the story of those two paths. To get the full effect it is best viewed full screen. [...]

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Kleiwerks International Haiti CoLaboratory

June 11, 2010

Over the last few days I’ve been helping a friend, Janell Kapoor of Kleiwerks International, tell the story of the high leverage work they are doing in Haiti to help it move onto a pathway to a more sustainable future. Seeing the potential of a more thrivable future, and telling stories to help lead us there, [...]

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Good Cop/Bad Cop: NGOs Ride Herd and Keep Corporations Honest

June 1, 2010

In a remarkable victory for two nonprofits, the caring consumer and endangered orangutans, Nestle announced recently that it will no longer buy palm oil from companies that contribute to the destruction of rainforests. The nonprofit Forest Trust confirmed that it will work with Nestle to help the corporation rid its products of unsustainably-produced palm oil, [...]

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