Written by Adelina Keshishian Originally posted at http://theoriess.tumblr.com, on October 27, 2013 I haven’t written in my log for a while, but i am starting again for a few reasons… For starters, I was inspired. I was inspired to be optimistic again. The majority of the people in my life think …
by Robert Friedman Originally posted on October 22, 2013 on switchboard.nrdc.org There’s something about standing on a fracking pad or at the edge of a mountaintop removal site that changes you forever. You ask yourself how anyone could be so blinded to be removing mountains from the landscape, to be contaminating peoples’ …
Do as your heart tells you “Do as your heart tells you,” I was often told, in between the walnut groves on a wise grandmother’s porch last summer. At the time, I was serving as an AmeriCorps member, running environmental education and eco-restoration projects for a land trust. My heart …
By Sam Lohse (Originally posted at The Open Window Exchange October 17, 2013) LOCATION: MONDULI, TANZANIA Twenty four people On an adventure. Tanzania. Nineteen thousand three hundred forty one feet of climbing. Run back down. Kilimanjaro. Two snakes at the park In our hands. Meserani. Hundreds of school girls Singing to …
Are you in college, or a recent graduate? Are you passionate about climate change, and wonder how to apply that passion to a meaningful career? Do you want to change the world? Join the C2C Fellows Network. Our next C2C Fellows Sustainability Workshop will bring together young leaders from …
By Will Mitchell, C2C Fellow The words that follow reflect Tenleytown Meat Company’s view on sustainability: “Sustainability is something good to strive for, daily, in all that we are. It is the honest, courageous, and exciting journey to create a future in which all people everywhere are able to live …
By Peter Croce, C2C Fellow “Whoa, whoa, whoa!” Jim exploded as he leapt out onto the grass. “Just what the hell do you think you’re doing?” There, in his beautiful backyard, the mowers he’d hired were packing up their equipment in a scene that, he imagined, could be mistaken for …
Every year, the C2C Fellows Network sponsors a graduate from our first-round sustainability leadership workshops to attend Wellstone Action’s Camp Wellstone. This 2.5 day long workshop is open to anyone interested in gaining practical skills in progressive political action. Wellstone Action trains candidates, campaign workers, and organizers on how to win progressive change. …
C2C is a versatile acronym that means several things. It stands for Campus 2(to) Congress, Campus to City Hall, Campus to Capitol Hill — and Campus to Corporation. We use “corporation” as a catch-all for entrepreneurship at every level –starting your own business, joining the team at a small company, or …
Every year, the C2C Fellows Network sponsors a graduate from our first-round sustainability leadership workshops to attend StartingBloc’s Institute for Social Innovation in NYC. This 5-day experience promises to be “transformative…during which emerging global leaders learn to increase their impact, exponentially”. The Institute focuses on social entrepreneurship – the idea …
