WiserEarth

World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth

What are you doing for Earth Day? This year will mark its 40th anniversary! On this day in 1970, over 20 million people gathered to participate in peaceful demonstrations for environmental reform. The date is also special for WiserEarth, which launched on Earth Day 2007.

On April 2, we were attending a Tools for Catalyzing Collaboration workshop organized by Eugene Kim of Blue Oxen Associates who also happens to be a WiserEarth advisor. One of my favorite sessions of this Open Space gathering was around the definition of collaboration. Eugene shared his definition:

Two or more people working together towards in the pursuit of a shared, collective, bounded goal.

We talked about the pressure many of us feel to collaborate, partly at the request of funders, as if collaboration was an end in itself. We all agreed about that we needed a better way to balance the costs/benefits of collaboration and to better understand the alternatives, especially lower touch / lower engagement strategies.

Do you want a map of WiserEarth organizations, people, groups, events, or jobs for your website or blog? If so, there are three easy steps to follow using Google Maps.

Starting today, when you conduct a search on WiserEarth, you can turn it into an RSS feed. This should be quite a useful tool for people who want to stay up to date with what is happening in the world of sustainability.

Another successful WiserTuesday event took place last week in Paris, France, bringing together over 40 individuals talking about social media for social change. WiserTuesdays Paris is a collaboration between NetSquared, WiserEarth.org and La Ruche.