Last Sunday the cover of The New York Times Metropolitan Section featured a picture of all the plastic and paper that ends up being dumped in landfills due to a lack of recycling facilities in public places. The article, headlined, “Lunch, Landfills and What I Tossed” by Mireya Navarrow, while giving New York City generally
In reflecting on the first week of our Greenopolis merger with Recyclebank, I realized just how relevant the new entity we’ve formed is to the topic of replacing unworkable old models that I’ve talked about in some of my previous blogs. In this case, the old model would be the practice of putting our collective
This past Saturday night I attended the 21st Environmental Media Awards ceremony (the longevity of which is in itself is a major feat). Debbie Levin, the president of the Environmental Media Awards Association, has done an incredible job coordinating this event every year and deserves kudos for the having brought so many personalities from Hollywood
As the son of a fisherman, everything I had in my childhood, as well as my education, was paid for by fish. So, with that in mind, I will offer you my unadulterated view of the Food Marketing Institute Summit’s seafood sustainability session that I attended several weeks ago. I had been holding back on
Today, I’m both excited and delighted to announce a merger that should be welcome news for everyone concerned about the keeping the planet habitable: the union of Greenopolis Social Recycling with the leader in consumer engagement and rewards, RecycleBank. By combining forces and resources, these two enterprises, representing the country’s most progressive reprocessing and tracking
As I look at today’s business models, I see more and more evidence of how old business models that fail to adapt are becoming rapidly outmoded. One of the best examples of this phenomenon is Kodak, which totally missed the digitalization of photography at a time when photos are more popular than ever. The company
Last Friday I gave a talk at the New World Festival in Santa Monica on why I didn’t think we’d succeeded in movements like organic agriculture, climate change, and clean energy, and have instead created “global boring” and, worse, eco-fatigue. I also noted that after two years of thinking about this and testing different tools
