{"id":603,"date":"2011-05-12T19:02:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T19:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=603"},"modified":"2011-05-12T19:02:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T19:02:30","slug":"cause-driven-organizations-stars-not-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Cause-driven Organizations: Stars not Planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Pew research study which  examined nine months of consumer data spanning the first three quarters  of 2010, and summarized at<a title=\"Journalism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.journalism.org\/node\/25008\" target=\"_blank\"> journalism.com<\/a> &#8220;sheds light on the significance of search aggregators and  social networks, <strong>the importance of creating a family of related  Websites,<\/strong> and hints at which kinds of sites might have more success with  paywalls than others.<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-604\" href=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/cause-driven-organizations-stars-not-planets\/screen-shot-2011-05-12-at-11-53-57-am\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-604\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-05-12 at 11.53.57 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-12-at-11.53.57-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2011-05-12 at 11.53.57 AM\" width=\"195\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The importance of linking sites with mutual interests, say all those around water, needs to be emphasized to cause-driven organizations who continue to view their Website as the center of the universe, rather than as one star among hundreds in a virtual constellation accessible to educate our citizens on becoming more conscious and aware of this one planet and its needs. We\u00a0 need to connect the stars for\u00a0 them and view their learning process as a journey, an exploration.\u00a0 For us at EarthSayers.tv we are connecting the people around the sustainability movement and beginning to organize them into\u00a0 special collections around geography and issues such as <a title=\"Alexandra Cousteau\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthsayers.com\/special_collection\/Connected_by_Water_by_Alexandra_Cousteau\/23\/19540\" target=\"_blank\">water<\/a>.\u00a0 Linking is what we do to increase awareness and adoption of sustainability principles and practices. We always appreciate when organizations link back, but few do.\u00a0 That&#8217;s got to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cause-driven organizations need to view their Website not as the center of the universe, but a star in a constellation formed around basic ecosystem services such as water and air. This virtual constellation is accessible to educate our citizens on becoming more conscious and aware of this one planet and its needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[667,119,341,340,666,50],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-lifestyles","tag-cause-marketing","tag-earthsayers-tv","tag-linking","tag-pew-research","tag-sustainability","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}