When it comes to the crisis of Global Warming (what author and New York Times columnist Tom Friedman says should actually be called “Global Weirding”), things can get pretty overwhelming fast.
Animal extinction, water scarcity, rainforest destruction – these are all pretty heavy topics requiring big picture thinking and action.
And if world governments can’t even build [...]

Anyone who knows me knows that food is a big part of my life – learning about it, talking about it, and especially eating it!
I’ve written about my interest in food in past posts, and today I came across a recent TED talk about food that I thought was worth sharing.
First, for those of you [...]

One of my goals for The Changebase is to use the blog as a platform for sharing the stories of companies, organizations and people working to create change in their communities. After all, there are lots of examples of great progress being made in CSR, social enterprise, and philanthropy and they should be celebrated!
This time [...]

We’ve all heard the saying, “You are what you eat.”

When it comes to green living, could we stretch that and say, “You are where you live?”
That is to say, is where you live a determinant of how you live?
Plenty of research and evidence exists to confirm that yes, the city you live in has a [...]

In an effort to make the content on The Changebase as user-friendly and understandable as possible, I’ve launched a new feature called “The Basics“.
Sometimes I get so caught up in the technical aspects of CSR, sustainability and other change initiatives that I lose sight of the fact that not everyone spends as much time learning [...]

Recently I had the chance to attend the Island Creek Oyster Festival in Duxbury, MA. While being a fan of oysters is reason enough to go, this time around I was lucky enough to score a VIP/backstage pass through my husband Dan, a budding chef (and blogger!) who was helping out the nice folks from [...]