The Cumulative Effect of Shifting 20% of Your Food Buying Habit
Women buy around 93% of the groceries. Many of us are already making the choice to have less toxic food on our tables by buying local, fresh organics instead of BPA-lined canned food. Good for us. What we may not know, is the cumulative effect of that buying power beyond our households and how it can save a community or even a whole state. Here’s what shifting 20% to local food ($1 out of $5) could mean to Detroit, which is in line for a state-managed-takeover. Detroit needs every penny to survive after its population went from 2...
read moreTide Free & Gentle — Please Come Clean of 1,4-dioxane
Today Lori Alper of Groovy Green Livin’ is taking a stand for her family’s wash and loads of others… her full post here. Today’s the day. It’s time to join forces with Women’s Voices for the Earth, MomsRising and Healthy Child Healthy World, to demand that Procter & Gamble (makers of Tide) strip a harmful cancer-causing chemical out of Tide Free & Gentle®. Jenn Savadge posted the request over on Mother Nature Network, and other green moms from the Green Mom Carnival such as Deanna Duke, quickly...
read moreLet’s Skip the 1960s This Time…
Wow, 50 years have gone by and we’re still fighting for easy access and affordable birth control from a bunch of old guys who are making decisions on our behalf. Even if you don’t believe in global warming, the certainty of over-population and the unsustainable effects of a growing pollution which includes millions of starving children, needs to be addressed at (forgive me) conception. (UPDATE: As of 2.19.12 250,000 of us demanded that women must be allowed at the table when women’s health care is at stake.) What is...
read morePanera Cares — A Model for Shared Responsibility
When we think about sustainable businesses we normally think green first, but some businesses are stepping forward and creating a new pattern for social responsibility as well. Panera Bread is one of them with their Panera Cares cafe. “This is Proof positive that humanity is good. People are fundamentally good. Given the chance, they will do the right thing… Not everybody — there are bad people out there that will take advantage of it — but most people are fundamentally good… And the key to what we need to do,...
read moreSeed Money: The Growing of McDonald Poppy Ads
Here is outdoor advertising that women will love that will last longer than one of McDonald’s chemically-ladened burgers. While I’m not a fan of fast food, I do love creative thinking that also meets with Mother Nature’s expectations. It’s called seed bombing… planting seeds where you least expect them and then let time grow a roadside billboard. Brilliant. In this case McDonalds took it to a new level by using the California poppy, which as California’s state flower is illegal to dig up. No worries for...
read moreTrust Barometer 2012: Social Attributes are More Important to Build Trust
If you want to build trust, according to the Edelman’s 2012 Trust Barometer, focus on the social, not monetary, bottom line. Go for what’s good for citizens/consumers/employees first; what’s good for the planet next; and what’s good for your profit margins last. Women are the majority volunteers at almost every non-profit, when the social is matched with other sustainability practices companies will earn loyalty while saving money in their overall operations. It’s why even the biggest retail giants are changing...
read moreGuidelines for Mommy Blogger Professional Treatment and Payments
Our thanks to Holly Pavlika for pulling together a terrific list on what Mommy Bloggers expect in professional treatment and payment. Last December we raised the issue in “Are We Giving Away Our Economic Future.” In that post we questioned the practice of giving away professional media time to companies who have advertising budgets. Soon after, Ladies Home Journal took bloggers out of the bargain basement and offered to not only pay professional writing levels to Mommy Bloggers, but to have their content become the base for the...
read moreKaren Hanrahan’s Burger Makes it into Ripley’s Believe it or Not
IWWT Speaker Karen Hanrahan makes her debut on Chicago Radio. They called her because she she owns a McDonald’s Hamburger from 1996 that smells a bit bad, but looks the same as the day she bought it. Karen uses the burger to make a point during her talks on health and wellness, “Just pause and think about what you’re eating…” Congratulations Karen, (I think…) for being weird enough to make it into Ripley’s Believe it or...
read more“I leave aside the bastards…”
Thank you, thank you, thank you International Monetary Fund Chair Christine Lagarde for being a leader and not a politician. (Thank you Christopher Dickey for the story.) “I don’t know if it’s male versus female, but I am told my management style is more inclusive,” says Lagarde. It has to do with forming a team’s view, having a consensual approach, “‘wasting time’ on occasion” to build consensus so that “you will not need to waste it in convincing people to implement.” “Even if it means not appearing as...
read moreWelcome Marcia Yerman to IWWT Speaker’s Bureau
We are so grateful and honored that writer, activist Marcia Yerman, has joined our crowd of outspoken women. Her well-researched reporting and analysis of women’s issues and social justice dig behind the soundbites, offering keynotes with perspective, insight, and a hint of irony. Marcia is also a curator and Co-founder of culture.ID, a portal for cultural work that explores progressive political and social issues. It connects non-profits with artists to extend and enliven their mission. Go here for a full bio on Marcia and click...
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