Two Eco-Friendly Summer Vacation Spots
With consumer preferences ever changing, organizations must adapt. Eco-tourism and hotels have been a trend for some time and it continues to gain momentum. As a result, hotel providers are changing their practices as well as being conscious of what they use to build their hotel. Beach season is rapidly approaching and many will be visiting some new locations. Living the eco friendly lifestyle is possible however and can be fairly easy to find a lodging location in Costa Rica as well as Las Vegas. A popular location in Costa Rica to stay is La...
read moreNo Media Buys = No Small Change (for society)
Hooray! Media boycotts, social media campaigns, public out crys and comments are working as Allison Stevens reminded me today in her post: Women didn’t get the vote by becoming lawmakers; they got it by launching a social movement to enfranchise women. Allison Stevens Citizen out cry works! Remember Rush Limbaugh? He’s the guy who once owned the talking points for the Republican Party. Now he’s off the media buying menu when it comes to advertising dollars – no rational company with a solid brand can afford to be...
read moreDo I Need This?
The backlash to consumerism has begun between the sharing society movement and anti-consumption message, soon it will be perfectly ok to have less — check out this video then get spring cleaning. Try to recycle as much as you can! If you need more inspiration check out this trailer — Midway — and see where your stuff is ending up. Less is more time to live. Do I Need This from Kate Schermerhorn on...
read moreTo get Gender Balance and an Open World, Just Ask…
Back in 2005 the geek world asked, “Where are all the women bloggers”? To which BlogHer answered, “We’re right here” and promptly went on to create the biggest female blogging organization around. Today, (finally) the geek world is activity trying to do something about it — Social Media Week is setting a 50/50 ratio on their speaker roster. Kudos! When more women are on stage, the dialogue shifts. Sort of makes you wonder what you’ve been missing out on all of these years… Below is their full...
read moreYour Energy or Their Energy?
Who is setting the direction of our energy program, kids watching this EPIC movie who have to live in the future we’re creating, or… … these guys, who will be long gone by the time their decisions have enabled more climate changing carbon in the air, polluted more wetlands, and created jobs for a dying (and killing) industry instead of sustainable, clean jobs that you can build a career on? I’m putting my faith in those fighting the EPIC fight and Energy Star. First, really caring adults who brought us the Ice Age...
read moreHappy Earth Day: “Women Weave the Patterns of Life”
Would you build your house by hand? How about an entire community center? In honor of Earth Day, last Saturday I attended the grand opening of Uncommon Good’s new community center made entirely out of bags of dirt. It’s an incredible structure built to last 500 years, but the opening ceremony impressed me even more in how it honored women in the most authentic way — starting with the women Gabrieleno-Tongva dancers circling back and forth because, “women weave the patterns of life,” according to Chief Anthony...
read moreStand Up, Lean In, Make a Movie…
The Empowerment Project Much of this site is about viewing the world as created through the female lens and showcasing the work. This month a couple women and their friends are taking that literally and are out to make a film by women, about women, to inspire other women to take on the big dreams. Sarah Moshman and Dana Michelle Cook are the creator, producer, and moxie behind the effort. They need your help. “The Empowerment Project: Extraordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things” is a docu-series that aims to create positive...
read moreThe New Law of the Land
There’s a new sheriff in town or should I say towns… Women are asking the 10 retailers to mind what they are selling. Typically, CEOs like to cover their green responsibility act by saying, “If the customer would ask for it, we’d sell it.” Well their wish has come true. Women are asking that stores get rid of products carrying these top 100 chemicals and they are posting the results of their conversations. Mind the Store is a campaign sponsored by Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families. Participants talk to store...
read moreReally 3M? This is one of your “ingenious solutions”?
Dear 3M (and Staples, too), Who approved this at Scotch Brands? Normally, I like to champion the positive in the green movement and ignore the stupid, but when I saw this at Staples… it’s just so wrong on so many fronts. 1. I thought the Mad Men days were behind us. This doesn’t belong on a business desk and as an example of female power, it fails. 2. It doesn’t even function — the store sample was too light to stay anchored with used. It also takes up too much desk space for a product used so little and...
read moreWelcome Kimberly Danek Pinkson, EcoMom® Alliance Founder
Welcome Kimberly Danek Pinkson to the In Women We Trust Speaker’s Bureau. At a time when everything seems suspect, along comes the real deal – Kimberly Danke Pinkson – real in heart, intention, and action. I first met Kimberly about six years ago, she had just launched the EcoMom® Alliance and was speaking on how EcoMom® home parties inspired women to lower the toxins in their homes, save energy, eat better, and become more sustainable as a society. These groups operated much like a book clubs, i.e. meeting once a...
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