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With Africa Gathering London this weekend, I wanted to share with you some thoughts on development in Southern Africa from Charlene Hewat CEO of Environment Africa. Environment Africa is a 100% African owned and operated NGO operating in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique and Malawi. I am truly humbled by the work they have done over the [...]

I have always expected people who truly understand social media to also get sustainability. The two, in my mind are based upon the same principles. Being sustainable is not as simple as using low energy light bulbs, just as having a social media strategy is not a simple case of opening a Twitter account. Indeed [...]

I would first like to thank Max Gladwell for his blog entitled, Ten Ways that Social Media and Sustainability Align, which sparked the idea for this blog post. At face value, social media and sustainability are at opposite ends of the spectrum. Social media is inherently intangible and lives online, while sustainability is concerned with the [...]

Sustainable Life Media has a great article about Tesco’s (UK’s largest supermarket chain) CEO Sir Terry Leahy wanting to “create a mass movement in green consumption” by making it easier and more affordable for customers to buy green products. A few years ago I would have put this down to a publicity stunt. I was [...]

I just love social media. I came across a 2 part article by Curtis Brainard entitled Public Opinion and Climate: Part I and Public Opinion and Climate: Part II through my membership to the social bookmarking site searchles. In this series Curtis ask the question “Have the media failed to help people get it?” I [...]

“I want it all and I want it now,” written by Queen and released in the late 1980’s, sums up where we are today in the US. We relate everything to self. “What does it mean to me?” “What can I get out of it?” We apply this mantra to our lives with gusto. This [...]