Here’s a quick memo that will help you at most achieve enlightenment and at least become a better human being. Think I’m joking? I have a question for you, that will make you think, and it might shake you up. Are you? I’m not kidding. The majority of people live their lives as the amalgamations of all of their social identities. People have a multitude of social roles –... Read More
The polar ice caps are melting. From The Guardian: The United Nations warned today that a continued failure to tackle climate change was putting at risk decades of progress in improving the lives of the world’s poorest people. In its annual flagship report on the state of the world, the UN said unsustainable patterns of consumption and production posed the biggest challenge to the anti-poverty... Read More
My first blog post published on Huffington Post: Imagine a world where shares are traded in TOMS Shoes, where your broker recommends a stock empowering women in third-world Rwanda, or where you purchase a bond in Teach For America that earns you a financial return while you support the education of America’s under-privileged youth. Sound impossible? Welcome to the world of social capital markets,... Read More
Earn Your Sticker. In California, showing your ballot stub to your employer allows you to take off work to vote. I Had To Vote Provisionally Today I just returned from voting. I strode purposefully into the polling location, confident in myself. I have voted before; as a Michigander I’ve voted for John Dingell, Carl Levin, and Barack Obama. I am a proud American. Now, I am a registered California... Read More
I just got back from a Causecast event held at the W Hotel in Westwood, California. I arrived and the crowd was fully involved in conversation, heads bobbing and careful (but not too careful) smiles being thrown around to friends and colleagues. I immediately went to the bar. I was going to greet one of the bartenders, who actually manages the social media account for CAUSECAST. Alyssa,... Read More
