Is “Occupy Consumerism” just around the corner?  poptech: timemagazine: TIME’s 2011 Person of the Year is The Protester “As soon as you cross the line of fear it just happens,” explained Shima’a Helmy (PopTech 2011) in detailing how she began protesting in...

Water. Changed. Everything. (a new kind of charity)

In 2004, Scott Harrison decided to make a change. It was an adjustment of grand proportions. In fact, there was nothing small about it. He crossed an ocean to change his life as well as thousands, maybe even millions of others’. In 2004, Scott left the streets of New...
Do I really eat that?

Do I really eat that?

Over the last few weeks we have been reaching out to good-hearted brands that we believe might just be better for you, your communities and our world. We have been interviewing good brands in order to get a better understanding about some of the challenges they might...

I was never a huge fan of hot pockets, this image is a great representation that these surely can’t be a good idea for my body or for our communities and planet.  mothernaturenetwork: Do partially hydrogenated soybean oil and corn syrup solids make you drool —...

The Future of Corporations

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66mcsvje2Gs] If you haven’t noticed it yet, corporations have taken over our world. They permeate every aspect of our living and being and it is seemingly impossible to live without them. We have given them the power to...

Sometimes we forget how consolidation is a common cross industry theme. We spend a lot of time talking about this in relation to large food companies, but it’s much bigger than just what we eat. Media or food, let’s become a microphone for real choice,...