The Social Age

Looking for a cause to rally around? Here’s an even better idea. Rally around a social change agent whose efforts are really making a difference in the world. Changents connects “innovators on the front lines of social and environmental change with people who want to help them”. Join Chad Pagracke on a paid gig on […]

You’ve all heard me talk about the two tenets of The Social Age: curiosity and awareness. Curiosity drive us to question, to learn and to seek out answers and alternatives. Awareness opens up our minds to a world larger than self. Together, these two principles drive an answer-seeking, we-oriented social movement that I hope […]

Imagine a factory where there is no waste, plenty of re-use and a product that tastes good to boot. NBC Nightly News recently did a piece on Kettle Chips, a “junk food” manufacturer with a social conscious. Kettle’s Wisconsin plant is a fully sustainable operation, from recycling water, to low-toxicity paints. The US Green Building […]

From Guest Blogger Nathan Shedroff:
Nathan is an entrepreneur, experience designer, sustainability expert. He is the Program Chair of the MBA in Design Strategy program at California Center for the Arts and the author of numerous books on design, meaning and business. You can learn more about him at www.nathan.com. You can reach him at […]

America Goes Green, the environment-conscious special series on the NBC Nightly News did a piece on EcoHangers, a company that is revolutionizing the way we, and our dry cleaners, hang our clothes.
You can think of it as environmentalism-meets-marketing-meets-recycling-meets-biodegradability. I think of it as smart.
The idea is simple. Give free EcoHangers to dry cleaners saving the […]