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Entries from April 2009

How Do We Shift from Green Hype to Green Habit?

April 30th, 2009 by Max Gladwell · 7 Comments

Creative Citizen asks the question that needs to be asked and looks for answers in the Twittersphere. Green has gone mainstream. It’s fashionable, marketable, and politically expedient. But it’s not reality. There’s a lot of hype surrounding the green movement, but we’re not seeing a lot of habit. The results just aren’t materializing. Relative to [...]

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Nominating Bill Clinton for Eco Geek in Chief

April 23rd, 2009 by Max Gladwell · 2 Comments

The former Commander in Chief appears uniquely suited to this new role. While covering the 2009 Fortune Green Brainstorm conference, we were fortunate enough to sit next to Greener World Media Chairman and Executive Editor Joel Makower during President Clinton’s closing keynote. Not surprisingly, the speech was quite compelling. Joel offered to us that someone [...]

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Max Gladwell’s (B)Earth Day Celebration

April 22nd, 2009 by Max Gladwell · 1 Comment

Celebrating Earth Day and the honorary date of Max Gladwell’s birth. First, we want to thank everyone across the Max Gladwell network for their warm wishes. Today is Earth Day, a global celebration of the environmental ethos. Not coincidentally, it is also Max Gladwell’s symbolic (some might say spiritual) birthday. As most hopefully realize, Max [...]

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Fortune Green Brainstorm: Carbon, Congress, and the Patriot Tax

April 21st, 2009 by Max Gladwell · 5 Comments

Day one of the Fortune Green Brainstorm Conference gets right to the point with energy policy, climate change legislation, and an interview with Bill Ford. The Fortune Green Brainstorm conference could very well be “the premier green business event of 2009.” This hyper-focused leadership conference includes panelists from FedEx, HP, Ford, Dell, IBM, GE, Wal-Mart [...]

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Tags: Economy · Global Warming

The Call for a Green Constitutional Convention

April 17th, 2009 by Max Gladwell · 13 Comments

The Green Movement needs a framework and a set of guiding principles upon which we can all agree. As Patriots of the Green Revolution, we’re calling for a Constitutional Convention for sustainability. We’re calling for a gathering not unlike the origins of the greatest nation the world has ever known, The United States of America. [...]

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Tags: Policy