30 Days of Sustainability needs an online community coordinator
Passionate about sustainability? Wired into the online world? 30 Days of Sustainability needs an online community coordinator. Vancouver’s 30 Days of Sustainability – an annual celebration of sustainability and its role in the world – needs a passionate,...Ecotrust gets the Harper treatment
This story has been percolating along in the background for a while now (and it’s the subject of the one and, so far, only WTF I’ve written for Technorati): You know those multi-million-dollar announcements that Harper has been making in provinces across...Vancity takes on climate change with new mortgage
One of the best things about having a client like Vancity is that they never stop doing astonishingly cool things worth passing on. Their latest initiative kind of takes my breath away (and then kindly gives it back again). Usually, when a bank or credit union offers...Mandatory recycling in Vancouver?
Over at ChangeEverything.ca, Kate is asking whether you support mandatory recycling in Vancouver – including fines for miscreants. I’m voting “yes”, but with a heavy heart. Why is it so damned hard to buy things that don’t need throwing away...Turn out the lights tomorrow
There’s this French initiative that has caught on well beyond the country’s borders: turning off our lights for five minutes in the evening on Thursday, February 1st. (That’s 10:55 am to 11:00 am our time here in B.C.)It’s meant to draw...
Why, yes — I’d LOVE to speak at your event
Public speaking and speechwriting: the essential guides
Looking for advice on public speaking, speechwriting and leadership communications? Here are some of my most comprehensive posts, on topics that people ask me about most often.
