Max Gladwell

This post was written by Rob Reed. He is the founder of MomentFeed, a location-based marketing, strategy, and technology firm. Location technologies are transforming how we experience, navigate, and ultimately better our world. From the global to the local, here are #10Ways geolocation is a positive force for good. Social media has changed the world. [...]

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The terms “green” and “sustainability” are often used as if they’re synonymous or interchangeable. This misconception confuses the issues and often leaves us arguing about minutiae when we should be discussing meaningful solutions. If there is one key takeaway from our SXSW panel on accelerating sustainability through social media, it’s that there is a fundamental [...]

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A SXSW panel discussion about the nexus of social media and green living. If you only see only one panel at this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive conference, then see New Media in the Marketing Mix for Nonprofits and Activists with Beth Kanter on Sunday at 4:30 pm CT. But if you see two [...]

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A classic yet timely TED presentation from award-winning scholar and author Jared Diamond. Jared Diamond’s Collapse is one of the defining texts in the Max Gladwell ideal and worldview, which is why it has a permanent place in our “Recommended Reading” sidebar. Very simply, Collapse demonstrates how unsustainable living will, in fact, lead to a [...]

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The financial crisis has sparked plenty of analysis and debate about its impact on the environment. We round up a list of different perspectives. In our post titled The Time for Sustainability is Now, written in July, we speculated that high oil prices and the global economic meltdown (the meltdown before the meltdown) would trigger [...]

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