Art Works For Change has issued a Call for Entry to submit your photos by June 30th, 2015 to be part of the upcoming online art exhibition, “Footing the Bill: Art and Our Ecological Footprint”, addressing the urgent need to live sustainably within the Earth’s finite resources.
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The Geography Of Hope Conference is an exceptional biennial literary festival, held every other year in the northern California coastal village of Point Reyes Station, California, is a gathering featuring writers, artists and activists who use their craft to convey the urgency of environmental issues facing the world today. This year’s theme is titled “Women And The Land.”
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About Being Extraordinary in the Age of Vulnerability. As more and more of us splinter away from the corporate grind and put ourselves out there in the freelance world, and as we aim to be known and hired for the value we bring to business and to the world, we face the challenge of overcoming the concept of commodity pricing in the marketplace, or rather, being the lowest common denominator. If your competitor charges X for her services, how can you possibly charge Y? Let me tell you how: It’s not about price point. It’s about value.
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If you have a daughter, there’s nothing more important you can do to enable her to thrive in life than helping her grow into the bravest version of the woman she has it in her to be. Here’s How.
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Organic Matters, the fourth installment in NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition series, explores the relationships between women, nature, and art. Women to Watch is presented every two to three years and is a dynamic collaboration between the museum and participating outreach committees.
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On June 20, 2015, people from over seventy communities across six continents will assemble to revere, renew, and inspire solutions for our precious resource of water. Global Water Dances will take place over a period of 24 hours, all broadcast live online. Dances begin in the Pacific Rim and roll westward through the time zones, encircling the globe.
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Have you ever pursued something that you thought you really truly wanted to do, and then you tried it and gave up? And you don’t know why? I have. Many times. My first memory of this is in 4th grade, when I decided that I wanted to learn how to play the guitar. I loved to sing, and I loved music. The guitar spoke to me. It was that simple.
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Many conversations about sexuality focus on health. It’s safe and respectable. Builds the immune system? Yep. Good for the heart: check. Relieves menstrual cramps and depression: double check. Sex bonds us through the oxytocin-dopamine cascade: check again. We know healthy people have more sex, and having good clean fun may help you live longer too. Orgasms are great for body and mind, and caresses feed our skin hunger. Check, check, check.
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Imports. Exports. These are things we know well. We have whole retail chains dedicated to these ideas. As women, we have the buying power and our impact is measured in dollars and cents. But what if there were other ways to measure our impact? We keep the United States’ GDP up and running with our spending; we keep it wealthy. But what about other things that women contribute, such as our time taking care of those around us so, at times, others can be wage earners? What about the “services” the environment offers? Will that be counted as part of a nation’s wealth? The debate has been on for quite some time.
Four archetypes of entrepreneurship and how they contribute to a better world.
For four decades I have worked with small business entrepreneurs, helping them grow their businesses by keeping stakeholder success and consciousness of how they do business in the forefront of their minds. I have seen how, by developing the characteristics of what I call The Responsible Entrepreneur, anyone helping to bring new business into the world can fulfill the promise of entrepreneurship and contribute to the creation of a better world.
Every Responsible Entrepreneur represents one of four archetypes, each with a unique role to play in the entrepreneurial system. Cultural anthropologists have identified all four in every healthy culture, and all four are needed to ensure the health of our own evolving social system. Each takes on change differently in search of different outcomes. All four approaches can also be found inside established organizations, among intrapreneurs who lead change.
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