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Better Place and City of San Francisco Announce Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Initiative
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Better Place founder Shai Agassi announced today a partnership to establish the first electric vehicle infrastructure for a city in North America. Better Place already has EV community infrastructrure project s in Isreal and Denmark. It was thought that Hawaii would be a first target in the U.S. due to it’s limited geographic span. I am happy to see San Francisco again take the lead in innovating. Austrailia recently got the financing in place to support a Better Place project there. Though this is a city agreement it will likely go state wide.
Party with a Purpose - Benefit for Sophia Healing Center Saturday 9PM
This is an exercise in rapid manifestation. I met Suzie Chang of the Pink Revolution today at the Green Festival. After being dazzled by her energy an opportunity to collaborate emerged. With all the amazing people in San Francisco this weekend for the Green Festival, The Global Summit and the HUB Awakening Your Brilliance conference an opportunity to help a community healing center gives us another opportunity to gather great hearts and minds for a purpose.
Green Festival San Francisco
There is a great line up for this years Green Festival, San Francisco, November 14-16th. I have listed out the my picks below of the “not to miss” sessions. I have seen many of the speakers before but, I am still psyched to hear the latest updates from them on the world transforming. I have not seen Jill Bolte Taylor before except on TED (), looking forward to her talk. Awesome to have Agape represented with the extremely talented spirit of Ricki Byars Beckwith.
The Green Collar Economy of Van Jones
It was a proud day for all of us in this movement to see Van’s new book reach #12 on the New York Times best sellers list last week. Van is a local hero who’s ideas are rapidly gaining national attention. Founder of the Ella Baker Center and Green For All, Van is taking on urban issues with pragmatict policies and a rethinking of paradigms.
Jennifer Johns and Seasunz @ the DNC
Captured this footage of my friends Jennifer Johns and Seasunz at a show during the Democratic National Conference in Denver. A little love vibe R&B from Jenn with a dose of conscious bombs from Seasunz. Enjoy!
Van Jones discusses The Green Collar Economy today @ 10AM
This should be good for marketers and sustainability folks out there. I heard Van interviewed this morning by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now. Prior to that, I heard Obama in a stump speech using messaging and strategies from The Green Collar Economy. This movement will be moving more and more into the mainstream which is [...]
INNOVATING AND ADAPTING IN THE EMERGING 3.0 WORLD
I am attending this event tonight put on by The New Voice of Business. We are starting to cycle faster through our era both virtually and theoretically. I have been having conversation with many friends lately about Web3.0 and here it is being applied to the economy. All part of the great confluence that is [...]
New sources of News
I have decided to move my attention from corporate media to people powered news. If you want to join me tune in to Technorati, Digg, Current TV to source your news. Much, much more to come on this topic soon. If you have a favorite people powered site for news, please let us know about [...]
Joe Biden - No Ordinary Time, No Ordinary Election
The choice of Joe Biden for Democratic VP has been well received. The energy and experience that Senator Biden brings to the ticket is easily seen through his interactions with Barrack and excitement in his speech. He provides the experience in foreign policy and appeal for white working class voters. He clearly is also going [...]
Majora Carter - Green Jobs, Green Media
In my post “Democratic National Convention and Beyond”, I talked about my excitement to see Majora Carter and Lester Brown speak at the American Renewable Energy Day Conference. Majora provided her insights to two panel discussions, one focused on a recent Arctic trip with progressive leaders and the other on media’s role in social change. [...]
