Posts Tagged ‘earthsayers’

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Sustainability: Searching and Not Finding

Over the last twelve months the phrases “environmental  sustainability” and the “definition of sustainability” are in  number 1 and 2 positions on the top Google searches for sustainability. What do searchers find and who influences their thinking? Most of our citizens are getting information on these terms from Wikipedia or the EPA or, in some cases, the more mainstream press... [Read more]

 
Posted by Ruth at 9:35 pm
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Friday, March 5th, 2010

Portland: the Most Sustainability Conscious U.S. City

Since 2004 the growth of the search term on sustainability has been slow and bumpy, but UP.  And the state with the highest volume of search? Oregon with Vermont close behind and in 2009 close to closing the gap.  And while Eugene outpaces Portland if you look at the period 2004 to the present, Portland outpaces all U.S. cities in 2009. Denver is close behind. It would be a good thing for the cities... [Read more]

 
Posted by Ruth at 3:02 am
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Friday, February 26th, 2010

Confessions of a Ms. Twitter

It started when I turned 22. I graduated from San Francisco State and moved to New York to experience big city lights and the skating rink in Central Park. Because I had worked in a library my junior and senior year, I found a job in less than a week with the General Motors Company in the public relations library. A big part of my job was to read the major newspapers and industry, trade, and business... [Read more]

 
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Qualities of Sustainability Leaders: The Short List

A short list of five qualities I have found in sustainability leaders and now “findable” in abundance at EarthSayers.tv, the voices of sustainability. Now that I live and work in a community where there is much more support for sustainability I don’t have to spend as much time doing missionary work on the relevancy of it, but I do talk more about leaders and why sustainability leaders... [Read more]

 
Posted by Ruth at 7:38 pm
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Launching EarthSayers.tv, voices of sustainability.

About to announce launch of Web site dedicated to sustainability movement, earthsayers.tv, the voices of sustainability. Voices are of teachers, experts, students, can citizens from all walks of life. Asking folks to set their browser to EarthSayers.tv for two weeks and listen to a program each day. One can do review email while listening or pay close attention.

Time to pay attention to... [Read more]

 
Posted by Ruth Ann Barrett at 4:42 pm
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