Still think global warming is in question?  Still think we’re going to return to the old financial stability?  Still think those two are separate issues?  The screenshot I just pulled from Google (right) is the latest in a long line of hard news (as opposed to debatable opinion) to disbuse you of that.
The earth is [...]

This was the year that social entrepreneurship crossed into the IT geek consciousness of South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi), with the advent of Good Capitalist party (info, report). Good Capitalist, attended by nearly 2000 people, by some reports, was created by social media / social entrepreneur crossover star-child Martin Montero, aka the ubiquitous @montero in [...]

Topping a ten-day period of sustainability-inspired thinking pervading economic reporting in the gray-flannel-media, the old gray lady reports (PW req’d) that French President Nicolas Sarkozy initiated a shift in how the French government reports economic activity (story tip to three of favorite tweeters: @NurtureGirl, @kevindoylejones and @byrnegreen).
President Nicolas Sarkozy told the French national statistics agency [...]

Not only did I have a great flight on Virgin on my last trip overseas, but this image from the Virgin mothership is one of my favorites in a long time.  The image comes from their page about running a sustainable company, which is worthy of your attention, as well. (Amazing what an image search [...]

As part of our partnership with Innovation Network for Communities (INC), we spent a week in mid-July at the Social Innovation eXchange (SIX) with 120 social innovation leaders from 24 countries.
Our two-part report ran this week at the nuPOLIS blog.

Part 1 covers our observations about the field of social innovation.  In short, the field of [...]

We’ll be blogging deeper thoughts later, but tune in to the live twitter feed at #sixlisbon on Twitter.  Lots of great collaboration from 100 leaders in 24 countries.

Sitting in a conference room in Portugal, some 3,000 air miles away from home, we post a blog and prediction market about ethical travel.
As we wrote in our new feature at nuPOLIS,
Air travel is the most damaging form of travel when it comes to global warming — yet most of us “social change agents” depend [...]

One of the best articles I have found on this big, great transition we are experiencing is Hazel Henderson’s The New Financiers.  In this piece, Henderson, the founder of Ethical Markets and thought leader for a group of progressive investors and people using money as leverage for change, talks about how consciousness and social capital [...]

If you can forgive me the conceit of talking about myself for a second (not my favorite trait in bloggers), I’ve been a pretty sporadic blogger this year.  A mix of moderately heavy consulting work, reading and thinking about the epochal transition, and an extended experiment with Twitter have kept me from pouring much into [...]

Great piece on the bioneers blog today lamenting the fact that important issues get overlooked in favor of the latest news cycle.  They call these important issues “Olds,” in contrast to the “News” in the headlines each day.
And they point out that our Olds are not getting addressed very often in the News — issues [...]