7gen Bloc

Last week my good friend Otto Scharmer (co-author of Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society and author of ...

I suspect that most people don't know that over 50% of products on their local grocery store shelves contain palm oil. I didn't! I also didn't know that the use of all this palm oil is contributing to global warming at an unprecedented rate, devastating indigenous traditions, forcing endangered species from their habitats, and being grown in conditions that abuse local farm workers. ...

As the impact of our financial meltdown continues to work its way deeper into our lives, we must not be fooled by the rising stock market into believing that the worst is behind us. While the financial industry works hard to get back to "normal," we should seize the opportunity that the disaster of the last 12 months presents and make sure that it results in meaningful long-term systemic change. ...

Over the past two weeks, I have met with some remarkable men. I had dinner with Vice President Al Gore, who was in New York to complete work on a new book about global climate change due out in November. We ate at Blue Hill in the Village where Chef Dan Barber prepared an amazing feast of earthly delights grown on his farm just north of the city. ...

A review of Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster: Advances in Ecological Economics, Peter A Victor; Edward Elgar Publishing (November 30, 2008) ...

Sometimes you think you have something important to say, and before you know whether you can convince anyone in the publishing community that it's of value, you decide that you're going to go ahead and write it anyway. That's how I felt two years ago when I sat down to write, In Our Every Deliberation, Seventh Generation: The Journey Toward Corporate Consciousness. ...

Landing at the Denver airport on a flight from Alamosa, Colorado, I am confronted with hundreds of acres of concrete under which nature has been forever buried. Entering the terminal there are scores of people, all of whom seem to be either in a terrible rush or bored senseless by endless waiting. In every direction there is something for sale. The jets we all will board will disrupt the silence for thousands of miles. ...

I soon head off for 11 days to Colorado's celestial Sangre de Cristo Mountains on a sacred passage retreat. ...

"All that money that you're losing, it's going somewhere, and in both a literal and a figurative sense, Goldman Sachs is where it's going." – recent Rolling Stone article You’ve probably seen some of the stories that covered news of Goldman Sach’s obscene quarterly profit report. ...

On July 3, the Washington Post published an article under the headline "Purity of Federal 'Organic' Label Is Questioned." The story highlighted a long litany of issues and problems that would cause one to wonder why anyone should pay extra for certified organic products. ...