DK Greenroots: Green Social Networking

  This extraordinary time when we are globally aware of each other and the multiple dangers that threaten civilization has never happened, not in a thousand years, not in ten thousand years. Each of us is as complex and beautiful as all the stars in the universe. We have done great things and we have gone way off course in terms of honoring creation. You are graduating to the most amazing, challenging, stupefying challenge ever be quested to any generation. The generations before you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life is a miracle every moment of your existence. Nature beckons you to be on her side. You couldn’t ask for a better boss. The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hopefulness only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful. This is your century. Take it and run as if your life depends on it.
—Paul Hawken to the Class of 2009, University of Portland

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Someone from Transition California emailed me a link to Paul’s speech Tuesday night while I was researching my diary on green social networking… sheer synchronicity since Paul’s nonprofit WiserEarth is my main squeeze these days. I putter around there passionately, a volunteer editor of their fledgling newsletter, a recently elected member of their first Advisory Council, and a primary promoter of my other pocket of hope ... the Transition Towns Initiatives.

Green Social Networks

Treehugger’s Jaymi Heimbuch, who recently dubbed WiserEarth the ultimate green network, refers to Hawken’s mega-experiment as “the green lovechild of Facebook and LinkedIn”.

Wiser: Build it and they will come

Wiser’s small staff and a dedicated group of volunteers have over the past two years compiled a commercial-free, free-to-use directory of over 100,000 organizations active in working towards ecological sustainability, social justice, indigenous rights, and environmental stewardship.  The community recently chipped in to purchase Wiser’s API, open source software which throws open the window on their organizations, resources, events, and jobs to any website.

This extraordinary time when we are globally aware of each other and the multiple dangers that threaten civilization has never happened, not in a thousand years, not in ten thousand years. Each of us is as complex and beautiful as all the stars in the universe. Read Blog Entry

By boatsie