Take your game changing idea, project or business to the next level by identifying your strengths and challenges, and uncovering specific strategies and solutions that you can take home and immediately incorporate into your business or organization. Devi Record will help you do this through the Generative Business Process at the upcoming “Women As Game Changers Conference: Creating a New Game” on October 13-14.
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The nominations for outstanding sustainability programs, projects, businesses, and leaders in Santa Fe, New Mexico are now open. Winners will be recognized at the Mayor’s Sustainability Awards ceremony on Thursday, October 13th from 5:30-6:30 pm at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center. In addition, on Friday, October the 14th (the next day), the “Women As Game Changers” Conference will occur from 8:30 am-5:30 pm at Sunrise Springs Spa Resort. At this one-day immersive event, receive support to overcome barriers to activating and elevating the game changer in you from featured special guest, Nell Newman, along with many other inspirational, rule-breaking women who are on their game now.
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A monumental new biotechnology agreement between IKEA Supply AG and Newlight Technologies will signal another move away from unsustainable virgin fossil-based plastics in line with IKEA’s sustainability goals. The latest agreement will see IKEA invest in a 10 billion pounds production licence with Newlight sustainable materials. IKEA now has the exclusive rights in the home furnishings industry to use Newlight’s exciting carbon capture technology to convert bio-based greenhouse gases, from biogas and later from carbon dioxide, into AirCarbon thermoplastics for use in its range of home furnishing products.
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People go to music festivals for a lot of reasons: to see their favorite bands, to burnish their Instagram feed, to sweatily camp out under the stars. But a group of volunteers came to the recent Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee for a fairly unique reason: to save uneaten food from being thrown out and sent to landfills. A group of 300 volunteers managed by Clean Vibes, a waste management company that works with dozens of music festivals to make them more environmentally friendly, spent the four days of the June festival helping to compost 230,000 pounds of food that was left over from caterers or that vendors were unable to sell. The volunteers received free tickets in exchange for their work.
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The Paris Agreement adopted at COP21 last year placed unprecedented importance on climate adaptation and resilience. Five emerging trends have been identified from learning how countries, cities, researchers and others are putting adaptation priorities into practice.
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Helena Norberg-Hodge, widely regarded as one of the most significant environmentalists of our time, has been a steady critic of the destructive impact of global monoculture. In addition, she is a pioneer of the “new economy” movement, which promotes localization in the face of a global political economy dominated by money, commercialism and the exploitation of resources for the maintenance and reproduction of capital accumulation.
Continue reading... →An amazing event is coming to Santa Fe, NM (home of Women Of Green) October 13th-14th. Nell Newman, the daughter of actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, and Creator & Co-founder of Newman’s Own Organics: The Second Generation, will be here for our Fall event: “An Evening with Nell Newman” on Thursday, October 13th at 7pm at the Santa Fe Convention Center, after the The Mayor’s Sustainability Awards at 5:30pm along with the “Women as Game Changers” Conference on October 14th.
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Each of us manifests every day. We continually emit energy about what we expect and want from life, whether we are aware of it or not. To manifest what you want in life, you need to do so consciously. “Like attracts like” is the basic principle of manifestation. To attract what you want, you need to increase the vibration level of your personal energy to a high enough vibration that what you want comes to you effortlessly.
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16-year-old climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is petitioning the 2016 U.S. presidential candidates to take a strong stance on ending climate change. In a Care2 petition and a corresponding video letter, Martinez is urging the candidates to pledge to end fossil fuel use in the U.S. by 2026. The petition attracted over 100,000 signatures in its first week online.
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In the past, the term “sustainable” was associated with being environmentally responsible, or “green.” But it has since become a term used to refer to change in all aspects of business and life so that both can continue. How can you become a sustainable tourist, you might ask? Whether you stay home and become a local tourist, or you travel to another state or country, there are several easy ways to make your trip more sustainable.
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