

This past week, I was again struck at all of the attention the media is placing on all things “green”. Green really is the new black (though have you noticed that lots of companies are now touting blue as the new green?). I don’t know about you, but some days I feel like I’m drowning in a green tsunami that’s engulfing the world. With Earth Day behind us, I had hoped for a break from more waves of environmental cheerleading. Not so. Companies continue to rush in with green...

This is an email I got today: Hi Alex, ...I’m currently working on behalf of Ethos Water and their ongoing mission to provide clean water to children around the world. I’m reaching out to influential (types of site) such as, (name site here) to engage you and your readers in the humanitarian initiatives of Ethos Water (www.ethoswater.com). I was reading your site and I see that you are looking for solutions not just problems, well I think the Ethos Water mission falls within that...

Sometimes explaining a problem in a particularly creative way can be a form of solution. Predatory lending in mortgages, credit cards and payday loans has been revealed as a central issue in North America over the last year, but many people still seem to have difficulty understanding what it is, how widespread it has become, and why we need regulatory action to solve it. Enter The Predatory Lending Association! This great industry association parody site has a simple mission: The Predatory...

by Worldchanging local blogger, Brian Smith: On May 5, 2007, PR Week (a national trade journal) held an ambitious event "Target Green: Making Sustainability Work." The stated goal of the conference was to highlight how corporations are "making meaningful changes that benefit the company, and the planet, and how PR and marketing play a crucial role." Spokespeople at the conference came from some of the largest corporations on Earth: GE, Dow Chemical, Dell, Sun Microsystems, Siemens, UTC,...

India's International Development Enterprises (IDEI) works to advance locally-appropriate, sustainable development by designing and marketing affordable products that can improve the lives of the rural poor and ease some of the burdens that keep them in dire poverty. Their products are geared towards rural farmers, and primarily deal with water -- probably the most vital and burdensome resource to obtain and use efficiently. Their Affordable Drip Irrigation Technology Intervention program...

Last December, the Color Marketing Group (CMG), a nonprofit group comprised of color specialists from various industries, made its forecast for 2007 color trends. CMG bases its selection on a combination of cultural and political factors or what they call “influences.? For 2006 (announced at the end of 2005), the palette fell under the heading of “Techno-Organic.? Straddling the line between technology and nature, it hinted at a few things to come with subheadings such as...

A lot of us on the Worldchanging team -- and surely a lot of you -- spend quite a few days each year attending conferences. Exhausting as they usually are, there's no better way to ingest high-concentration inspiration than in three days packed with conversation between brilliant minds and leading voices. Since we can't be everywhere at once, though, the next best thing might look something like the recently released Influx Interviews Thought Pack from Influx Insights, a very worthwhile blog...

A new report that rates providers of retail carbon offsets is out today, and even the anticipation of its publication has caused a flurry of anxiety among some of the 30 companies it reviewed.

The entertainment industry and the environmental movement have always had a strong relationship, one that, for my money, is double-edged. so it's great to see that Variety, the industry standard, this week has published a special section on the greening of Hollywood.
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