The Social Age

I’m constantly amazed at the human desire for stasis. The slow-burn growth of the world’s acceptance of the “social entrepreneurship” movement (in the media, academia and business-world) is in direct opposition to the actual growth in the amount of work and money being dedicated to the work of these incredible agents of change.
Perhaps today is […]

I’m always amazed that everytime I ask the Universe for a shot of inspiration, something pretty cool happens. Today I had a conversation with an amazing company called World of Good (www.worldofgood.com). I met the folks at World of Good as part of my research in putting together an event called “Careers in Social Change: […]

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 […]

Two weeks ago, Yahoo! Inc. launched a new environmental initiative called Yahoo! Green. The program is designed to educate consumers on things they can do to help to combat climate change.
Yahoo! executives stated that the company’s greatest potential impact on cutting greenhouse gas emissions is to educate and encourage personal change in the 500 million […]

Sometimes it gets a little esoteric talking about all things Social Age, with no brass tacks and how tos. So I will be posting interesting tidbits that I find regarding products, services and companies to help us all find a way to be more Social Age everyday. One of my favorite things to stumble upon […]