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I tried to make this comment directly on the article, at http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/thegreenguide/2010/09/urban-foragers-cropping-up-in.html. It wouldn’t take, and I’m not one to waste a good comment. I’m a long-time forager. Just today, I was checking on the Russian olives in my neighborhood (an invasive that I find quite tasty). I’ve picked plenty of wild raspberries and blueberries, [...]
may be one of our best hopes for avoiding catastrophic climate change (on which the window is getting smaller) and the great hardship of massive price shocks on all the things based in fossil fuels—which is pretty much everything.
Tags: hadley massachusetts·kinsale ireland·totnes uk·transition towns
There is definitely something to all this Law of Attraction stuff. Consider this: For the past few months, I’ve been putting out a lot of energy around four things: 1. Expanding the public speaking portion of my business 2. Pitching myself as a syndicated columnist writing on Green business (working a long-term plan) 3. Founding [...]
Tags: abundance thinking·book shepherding·International Association of Earth-Conscious Marketers·law of attraction·syndicated column
I feel very sorry for those people who’ve never had a REAL fresh tomato. Comparing it to a supermarket tomato is like comparing a perfectly aged French triple-cream gourmet cheese with Velveeta.
And I feel grateful not only to live in a place where we can have a garden, but in a time when consciousness of local organic and fresh foods is high, and where food is helping people know their neighbors and boost their nutrition.
Yes, a tomato can change the world.
Tags: fresh produce·local organic food·tomato sauce·tomatoes
Essentially, the term Fair Trade refers to the following business model: companies pay craftsmen and farmers in developing countries an increased wage for goods that are traditionally produced in that region. These goods are produced with an eye to minimal environmental impact. Examples of Fair Trade goods are: bananas, honey, cotton, wine, handcrafts, coffee, sugar, and tea. As of 2008, the annual amount of revenue generated by Fair Trade goods amounted to approximately US$4.08 billion worldwide.
While the popularity of Fair Trade goods is almost certainly a byproduct of good intentions on the part of consumers, is there a downside to the Fair Trade industry?
Cooperate with others to open new markets. It’s one of the key principles of my brand new book, Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson), released this week by John Wiley & Sons. The book is a manual for thriving by doing the right thing, showing businesses that Green and ethical practices aren’t [...]
Tags: affiliate commissions·book launch campaigns·Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green·marketing partnerships
It must have been somewhere around 1986, in the early days of my business, that I first encountered the work of Paul and Sarah Edwards, gurus to the home-based business sector that was just beginning to take off back then. I’ve been home-based since I founded my company in 1981, so their message resonated. I’ve [...]
Tags: elm street economy·home-based business·paul and sarah edwards·self-sufficiency·sustainability
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Name: Shel Horowitz
Location: Hadley, Massachusetts, United States |
A blog about business ethics from Shel Horowitz, expert on Green principles and business ethics as success drivers. This blog covers the intersections of ethics, politics, media, marketing, and sustainability.
About Shel: Copywriter, marketing and publishing consultant, speaker, and award-winning author of seven books. The three most recent are Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First, Grassroots Marketing for Authors and Publishers, and Grassroots Marketing: Getting Noticed in a Noisy world.
Shel specializes in affordable, ethical, and effective marketing for authors, publishers, small businesses, nonprofits, and community groups.
He's currently engaged in a campaign to get 25,000 people to sign--and spread--the Business Ethics Pledge: www.business-ethics-pledge.org
The Teabagger Anti-Socialist Purity Pledge
March 27th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Abundance and Prosperity, Ethics: General, General Commentary, Politics, propaganda
I’ve long wondered why the people who so strenuously object to socialized medicine have no problem with other socialized services, such as police and fire protection (on the government monopoly model) and education (the “public option”/private competition model). This bit of satire makes the point better than I could. I was hoping to be able [...]
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Tags: socialism·socialized public services·teabagger