Do You Believe You can Make a Difference? YourOliveBranch Does

At the heart of sustainable living and sustainable business strategies lies a foundation of innovation; refreshing new approaches that deliver unprecedented results.  While the media and mainstream may be populated with stories of mishaps, failures, blame, and make wrong, have you ever stopped to count the millions of blessings, successes, and things that are going right in our world? 

Well, there’s a positive, refreshing, and empowering new website dedicated to helping you do just that.  YourOliveBranch.org is creating a place through social networking where we can connect to people and organizations of like mind and spirit focused on positive actions and expressions of peace and sustainability. They believe that by taking responsibility for our global society, respecting nature, promoting universal human rights, advancing education, and supporting social and economic justice, we can all participate in creating a culture of peace. 
 
“There is so much positive change occurring around the world.  There are so many wonderful accomplishments positively affecting peoples’ lives everywhere.  News of many of these activities and efforts never finds its way to the general public.  The stories of true inspiration never seem to make it out of the little hamlet or village or hidden city neighborhood they originate in. We can make a difference by connecting with others through YourOliveBranch and sharing these successes.  We can educate each other who don’t realize the amazing efforts being made to create clean water, to grow sustainable food, to build schools and medical facilities, to create art, and much more.  We can post these great stories on the YourOliveBranch news site and tell our friends what they can do to make a difference. “
 
Whether you are a devoted peacenik, a die-hard greenie, a committed social networker, or a casual internet user who loves to explore, YourOliveBranch offers you a place to let your voice be heard, share your ideas and stories focused on peace and sustainability with people and organizations across the globe.   As a proud member of YourOliveBranch, Taiga Company invites you to join us in sharing in the successes of sustainable business and others living vibrant sustainable lifestyles.
 
What you focus on expands.  Energy follows thought.  Attitudes are contagious.  Why not focus our collective thoughts on the innovative, inspiring results of sustainability success?
 
 
Home to one third of the earth’s trees, the Taiga is the largest land-based biosphere and encircles the globe. Its immense oxygen production literally changes the atmosphere and refreshes the planet. It is this continuous renewal that has shaped Taiga Company’s vision to drive similar change in the business world. Taiga Company seeks to be the “oxygen for your business”.
 
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World Environment Day

World Environment Day (WED) is June 5. It began on that day in 1972 when the UN Conference on the Human Environment began. The First WED was celebrated on June 5, 1973. The day calls attention to the environment and is intended to stimulate political and public  action. Each year WED is  hosted by a different city/country, commemorating a different theme.

For 2010, the host is Rwanda and the theme is “Many Species. One Planet. One Future”, celebrating the thrilling diversity of life on Earth as part of the 2010  International Year of Biodiversity.

Around the globe people will hold all sorts of activities to recognize the day — while people of the US Gulf Coast regions fight the massive petroleum spew from BP’s mile-deep sea-bed well; while animals are tarred with the inescapable goo-tide; and wetlands are turned to sludge.

On this day, we can celebrate a traditional human interaction with the natural world that creates a thing of beauty and function — without any petroleum, no plastic, no chemical processing.

The Zulu are one of only two peoples on the earth who create water-tight baskets. (The other are natives of Central America.) Zulu weavers use only grasses native to their KwaZulu-Natal homeland and local ilala palm, dyed using only natural, locally-derived vegetable dyes.

Laurentia Dlamini.

On World Environment Day, let’s celebrate the diversity of species on our earth — and the diversity of people and their creations without petroleum.

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CSR Corporate Leadership Meeting 2010: What They Said

“What struck me most today was Geoffrey Canada’s and others’ emphasis on the importance of data,” observed Matthew Bishop, U.S. Business Editor of The Economist, and author, Philanthrocapitalism, in reference to today’s tenth annual corporate philanthropy summit, conducted by the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP). Bishop commented to me that he sees the scarcity of philanthropic dollars driving the demand for measurement.

Patrick Corvington, CEO, Corporation for National & Community Service, also stressed outcome measurement, saying that “service has to be about solving problems,” not simply counting volunteers. “If we can get volunteers invested in results, we can change the world. If you tutor a child, you want to see him graduate.” Corvington’s comments resonated, especially after Canada made a compelling case that the Harlem Children’s Zone was on a path to ensuring that 10,000 children within 100 blocks in New York City will get a good education. Canada pointed out that investing in HCZ will yield a great result, especially considering that the alternative is for these same children to wind up in jail — a human tragedy and an enormous cost to business and society.

In a conversation with Bishop and me, Alan Hassenfeld, Chairman of the Board, Hasbro, and board member of CECP, observed that just like anyone else, he and his company want to know what every charitable dollar is going to do. The Hasbro Foundation, an early investor in HCZ, focuses on children, while his family foundation focuses on empowering women to break the cycle of violence.  In my own experience in working with nonprofit boards and CEOs, a great value of establishing measurement “dashboards” is…

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Korngold Consulting LLC assists corporations in building fully integrated, high-impact CSR strategies, including leadership development through nonprofit board service.  Korngold Consulting trains and places business executives on nonprofit boards, and consults to nonprofit boards and leaders to strengthen governance for financial and strategic success.

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