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My roommate and I recently signed up for a bread CSA and couldn’t be more pleased.  What’s a bread CSA you might ask? A fresh baked, still warm loaf of delicious bread delivered to our doorstep every other week.  Past flavors have included cheesy gruyere, olive, 8-grain, and country white.  The breadman (Edgar Cuarezma) doesn’t [...]

I recently discovered a YouTube video that has provided endless laughs, copious Facebook conversations, and a few solid lessons in marketing in today’s web 2.0 landscape.  john st., a Toronto-based advertising agency, created Catvertising.  Don’t continue reading until you’ve watched this masterpiece: Here are a few lessons I draw from Catvertising:

By Lisbeth Cervantes The world that we live in today is advancing rapidly in the fields of computing and communications. This has allowed big changes in the way new materials are developed and the way energy is being created. The Green Net 2010 conference brought together investors, scientists, and many companies in the green technology [...]

So you may have noticed I haven’t been updating this blog too often.  I’ve been writing semi-regularly at TriplePundit.com (which has much bettter traffic, and many amazing writers) and while I used to repost content here, I’ve since learned that’s terrible for search engine optimization (or something).  Google likes original content.  So, while I’m not [...]

Social capital lies “at the intersection of money and meaning” according to Kevin Jones and Gary Bolles, founders of the Social Capital Markets Conference (Socap). Socap08 was about mapping the landscape of the social capital marketplace (also the topic of my first ever TriplePundit post). Two hundred attendees were expected, 600 came. “Last year we [...]

Phil Angelides, Board Chairman of the Apollo Alliance and Former California Treasurer, spoke at Full Circle Fund’s recent Environment circle meeting. Founded in 2003, the Apollo Alliance is a “coalition of business, labor, environmental, and community leaders working to catalyze a clean energy revolution in America to reduce our nation’s dependence on foreign oil, cut [...]

You saw it here first! Check out my call for a Date Local movement in Slate–originally based on this ecofrenzy post. –Barron YoungSmith