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BP and the Balance of Feminine and Masculine.

By wogwpa1358 on June 19, 2010 / Innovation, Leadership, Uncategorized / Leave a comment

Tags: BP, Carolyn Parrs, cleaning up the gulf, oil spill, women in sustainability, women of green

The balance of the masculine and the feminine is my mantra on Women Of Green. With the recent (or not-so-recent) oil spill, we see the extreme need for this more than ever. My heart burst open every day watching our waters be turned into a toxic soup of sorrow. With that, I share the blog post below by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox. It shines a light on an important view on the BP story that has not been covered in the current news.

— Carolyn

One year ago, BP’s most senior woman left the company. Vivienne Cox was the head of the company’s renewable energy business. A lifelong proponent and pusher of sustainability issues, she was one of the many women to leave the company after the current CEO Tony Hayward took over from Lord Brown, something 20-first.com reported on at the time. Watching the current debacle and the culture that created it, one wonders had she and the other women stayed, would BP be in its current mess?

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Seeping Up The Sludge One Strand at a Time – show 18

By wogwpa1358 on June 5, 2010 / Women Of Green Podcasts with Carolyn / 2 Comments

Tags: beauty salons, BP, Carolyn Parrs, cleaning up the gulf, environment, green business, hair booms, Matter of Trust, Melodi Wyss-Feliciano, oil containment, oil spill, Rock Paper Scissor Salonspa, Santa Fe New Mexiico, Suttles, women in sustainability, women of green

My guest today is working hard along with thousands of other volunteers on containing the spew with hair – human hair, dog hair, even alpaca hair. This nationwide effort is lead by the not-for-profit organization, Matter of Trust, that turns the collected hair into oil collection mats and tubes. And so far they’ve collected hair from thousands of individuals and over 40,000 businesses have signed up.

This podcast is on location at a local salon in Santa Fe. Melodi Wyss-Feliciano, the owner of Rock Paper Scissor Salonspa, is leading the way in New Mexico and has collected boxes and boxes of hair not only from her salon, but others in New Mexico. Yesterday, she added my hair. What about yours? Think of it, your strands seeping up the sludge. It’s a beautiful thing.

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