Our mantra at Women Of Green is that 85% of all consumer purchases are made by women. That makes for an awful lot of weight if we can direct it responsibly. In her new Story Of Stuff video, Annie points out that 85% of Americans think that corporations have too much influence in our democracy. Do you?
Continue reading... →Green is to me something sensible. It implies that you care, and want to do something to ensure a prosperous future.
Continue reading... →I think that anyone who takes a moment to consider the impact of their day-to-day actions on the world around them and then takes action on that thought is green.
Continue reading... →Kathleen Rogers is the President of Earth Day Network, a non-profit that started the first ever Earth Day in 1970. The organization is widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement. She speaks here about the women who are leading the way on climate change.
Continue reading... →What’s enough success? Enough good deeds? Enough parenting? Enough creativity? Enough sex? Enough apps? Enough emails, tweets, texts? Vacations, clothes, shoes? In a world of unlimited possibilities, how do you know when to stop? How much is enough?
Continue reading... →I love the word “green.” Like all good words, though, it has been co-opted by media hype, and now it carries some baggage. But that doesn’t mean we should throw it out. It signifies LIFE to me. Alice Walker said, “I feel that as long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can; I won’t give up until the Earth gives up.”
Continue reading... →Both women-owned businesses and sustainable businesses are fairly new trends in business. Neither had an impact until perhaps the past 20 years, and weren’t even a consideration during the Industrial Revolution when many of our business practices were established. Now, however, they are both positioned to significantly change the way we do business in the 21st century.
Continue reading... →Some of our most central business ideas were developed under vastly different circumstances than the ones in which we now find ourselves.
Continue reading... →Nina Simons is one of those rare teachers who encourages and emboldens at the same time that she inspires curiosity about the topics of service, gender, and leading from the heart. She speaks here about the importance of collaboration between women (and between men and women) as we all strive to reinvent a model of leadership that can help steward the current changes taking place on our planet. “Liberate your own capacity,” she suggests “and get out of your own way!”
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