www.bigtentdenver.org

I’m leaving for the Big Tent and am wondering if any other NextNowers will be there.  If so, please let me know so we can connect.  Or if I can try to make an important connection for anyone, let me know that, too. Please look at the schedule to see an inspiring list of topics and speakers.  There is also supposed to be streaming video by UstreamTV. “The Big Tent will be the place to be for new media journalists, bloggers, reporters, and non-profit leaders covering the Democratic National Convention in Denver this summer.” This is a non-partisan event.  From…

Digital Earth and Social-Environmental Justice

Thanks to Myrna Yoo, NextNow member, collaborator with NNC on ISDE5 and Publisher of Imaging Notes, tonight’s post is an advance online posting of “Earth Scope,” Tim Foresman’s column in the Summer issue. The column references what for me was one of the most emotional presentations during ISDE5 on mountaintop mining in the Appalachian Mountains, and on how digital earth technologies create shifts in awareness, facilitate collaboration and fortify communities pursuing social-environmental transformation. Also check out The International Journal of Digital Earth, concerned with a wide range of interests, but the principal topics are: Digital Earth Framework, Digital Earth Applications,…

New B Corp Website

There are now 124 B Corporations representing a $910 million marketplace and 31 industries. Visit B Corp’s new website and watch the new video explaining the founding of B Corporations and why they decided to help build a new economy.  This is Cultural Creativity. To subscribe to B Corp’s Newsletter, email hardik@bcorporation.net.

B Corporations and the Fourth Sector

NNC recently had conversations in Paris with representatives of FourthSector.net.  That we need new and better forms of organizations is a conversation that many of us have been part of for a long time, at least since David Korten’s “When Corporations Rule the World“; I myself spent years involving corporations in rethinking true “wealth creation” at UC Berkeley in the 90’s.  The current momentum of the conversation is encouraging.  In the spirit of “The Perfect is the enemy of the Good,” I include this brief post: The Emerging Fourth Sector In exploring cross-sector collaborations, it’s clear that, as they say on…