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The Bloc Party

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:09:58 -0400

I fondly remember the days when all we worried about was climate change! Watching Paulson, Obama, McCain, Bush, the Dow Jones and everything else makes social change seem like a

The village of Thulo Syabru, located in the Rasuwa District of Nepal, has been working with The Mountain Fund for the past three years, to turn their idea of a health clinic into reality. This past March, TMF Founder, Scott MacLennan, and ...

My Footprint

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:56:16 -0400

I just thought I'd show you what this "mentally ill" person is doing in the community. This is what I do on a regular basis.

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Real Life (i.e., Not Online) Groups

Asheville Homeless Network - President & co-founder; group leader Needles for the Needy

Asheville-Buncombe Coalition for the Homeless - member representing Asheville Hom...

Our Photo Gallery

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:33:20 -0400

Check out our new photo gallery!

Click HERE to see our projects and volunteers in action.

~ The Mountain Fund

"Small Projects - Big Results"

Volunteer in Nepal

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:27:18 -0400

If you've travelled to Nepal, and fallen in love with its people, and have a desire to help them, now you can. The Mountain Fund has a visitor center in Kathmandu that assists people in finding an appropriate place to volunteer, and supports them while they are volunteering. Our staff in Kathmandu can help make any volunteer experience go more smoo...

Help the Children of Nepal

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:03:57 -0400

The Social Development Centre Nepal has been in effect since 2006. It's a small home for orphans, and half-orphans (single parent invalid or not capable of caring for the child), located in the Kathmandu neighborhood of Khusibu near Naya Bazaar. Here, these children receive nourishment, shelter, education and medical attention.

At the time of this blog, there are currently 12 children at the centre, and one more will arrive within the ...

PERU 2008

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:30:33 -0400

Join us in PERU ! Aug 9-22, 2008. www.trek4good.org

Your trip fee will help support The Mountain Fund and it's programs in Peru.

The mission of The Mountain Fund is to organize grassroots non-profit and non-governmental organizations from a diversity of disciplines, and to support and coordinate these organizations' efforts to eliminate poverty, its causes and symptoms, in developing mountain communiti...

ChicoBag founder Andy Keller on landfills, Bikram Yoga and his beef with plastic

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:32:45 -0400

There is no shortage of entrepreneurs inspired by the movie Wall Street or the stories of Sam Walton or Steve Jobs. I recently had the opportunity to interview Andy Keller, whose inspiration is a little more, shall we say, down to Earth.

CA -- Tell us about the origins of ChicoBag.

AK -- I used to sell software for an enterprise software company down in the Bay Area. I ended up getting laid off when the company was bought out by a company in the UK. The community and lifestyle in Chico (California) really appealed to me, so it was important...

Treehuggers to descend on Montreal

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:43:44 -0400

More than 165 exhibitors and 35,000 visitors are expected to descend on Montreal's Old Port for three days beginning June 13th, to share ideas about living more sustainably.

The "Salon national de l'environnement" (SNE) was developed out of a citizens’ initiative in 2006. The event looks at the current challenges to the environment and offers visitors concrete solutions. The event describes as its objective "to make visitors aware of today’s environmental challenges, while proposing solutions and tools for people to have a better understanding and to encourage beha...

Quebec and Ontario showing leadership with cap-and-trade program

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:47:50 -0400

The provinces of Quebec and Ontario have shown great leadership by working together to institute a bilateral "cap-and-trade" system in an attempt to curb green house gas emissions. When the Canadian federal government is dragging its heels on what most consider the most important issue curretnly facing humanity, bilateral initiatives between provinces or municipalities makes a good deal of sense.

This kind of autonomy and leadership at the provincial level is refreshing. A similar dynamic has existed for many years in the U.S., where despite an administration nearl...

What Gets Seventh Generationâ€™s â€œDirector of Corporate Consciousnessâ€ Out of Bed in the Morning?

Tue, 27 May 2008 10:41:01 -0400

What Gets Seventh Generation’s “Director of Corporate Consciousness” Out of Bed in the Morning?

An exclusive interview with Gregor Barnum, senior executive of Vermont-based Seventh Generation, one of the sustainability movement’s most innovative companies.

By Alex Salzman
May 19, 2008

Don’t let the altruistic job title fool you – Gregor Barnum and his cohorts at Seventh Generation are relentlessly pragmatic about building a sustainable company. I recently caught up with Barnum, who is part ethics s...

New Book Offers Glimpse of Nepalese Porters Lifestyles

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:17:51 -0400

Vineland, NJ, April 18, 2008 - Yileen Press of New Jersey has completed publication of their newest book, “On a Donkey’s Back”. This book gives voice to the voiceless by capturing the daily lives of Nepal’s mountain porters through their own poetry and artwork. With more than fifty poems and various pieces of scanned artwork, the reader receives a glimpse into ...

The Mountain Fund and Adventure Engine Team Up for Nepal Trekking

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:25:00 -0500

February 2008: The Mountain Fund and its Trek4Good program are proud to announce an exciting new partnership with Adventure Engine. Adventure Engine is an online administration suite providing everything from reservation programs, inventory management systems, merchant accounts, e commerce solutions, and marketing and distribution programs to adventure tourism suppliers, operators, outfitters and tour companies.

The Mountain Fund is a US based charity with a mission to "organize grass...

The donor landscape of 2033 is bright

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:08:52 -0500

By Sean Stannard-Stockton

Friday Feb 29 2008 23:10

Philanthropy is undergoing a transformational shift. While most donors continue to give in the same ways they have for 100 years, the vanguard of philanthropy is busily reforming the fabric of the charitable sector.

Often referred to as the "social capital markets" and characterised by a model of giving that mirrors the financial markets, this emerging model is still in its infancy. Since you can create only that which you imagine, I thought I would take a quick trip 25 years into the future to see what philanthro...

Moving Mountains Magazine

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:48:51 -0500

Moving Mountains will provide outdoor lovers and the outdoor industry with comprehensive print and online stories about the activities of, events/projects sponsored by, and news and people associated with nonprofits that operate in mountainous regions of the world. Check it out here: http://movingmountainsmagazine.blogspot.com/

Excellent Video on Earth Day TV

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:25:30 -0500

Here is an excellent video from the Earth Day Network - It's a production of the University of South FLorida, about an hour long, and very inspiring! A great model for what we can do with the 3 finger Solution! Look at www.SustainabilitySymbol.com and check out EarthDay TV

Opportunity for Webmasters and Bloggers! FREE USE OF WEBSITES

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:32:14 -0500

King or Queen of your own sustainability domain!

We'd like to offer you some of the valuable Sustainability-related domains collected over the years.

What we ask in return is that you design a really cool site that gets people involved, spreads the Sustainability Symbol (the 3 finger symbol) around the world and brings attention to, and supports at least one of the Climate Change related projects we’re working on (Like “STOP the GLOFs”) The rest will be up to you.

Almost two years ago we introduced the 3 Finger Sustainab...

Alliance Accepted! - Philip McMaster

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:24:20 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Hard Rock Philanthropy

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:03:55 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - The Mountain Fund

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:33:07 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Chris Advansun

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:32:31 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - jonathan jolkowski

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:18:33 -0500

Echoing Green Fellowship

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:45:41 -0400

What is the EG Fellowship?

Through our two-year Echoing Green Fellowship program, we provide start-up capital and technical assistance to help new leaders launch their organizations and build capacity. We offer:

â€¢ A grant of up to $90,000, paid in four equal installments over two years â€¢ A health insurance stipend â€¢ Conferences led by organizational development experts â€¢ Access to technical support and pro bono partnerships to help grow your organization â€¢ A community of like-minded social entrepreneurs and public service leaders

W...

Are you a great designer, or translator?

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:15:45 -0400

We are in the process of translating the word/concepts/phrase of

1. SOCIETY

2. ENVIRONMENT

3. ECONOMY

... into the languages of the world, and adapting the different ways of writing to the three fingered hand symbol.

You can see a sample of the Sustainability Symbol in Chinese script on this message.

Your name will be forever associated with the chosen modification of the symbol that represents “Society, Environment, Economy” in your linguistic communi...

Convert website into something attractive

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:51:00 -0400

The three finger Sustainability Symbol is beginning to attract attention on and off the internet. This is a double-edged sword.

On one hand, more and more people are learning about the campaign (personally passing it along from one individual to another),

on the other hand, our website stinks.

It’s homemade, and as you will see, I’m no web designer!

If there are any talented web designers out there in the Rethosarian community, please have a look at www.DragonTHINK.com and make a suggestion of how we could use some of the existing conte...

Volunteers needed for Medical Trek to Peru

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:51:35 -0400

Trek4Good is a volunteer program of The Mountain Fund. This program was started in order to address the need of volunteers to both see the country of Nepal, and to also contribute their time. By hosting volunteer visits that are close to the people and the cultures of the country, we help to prepare them to be more effective volunteers with a deeper understanding of the issues. Every Trek4Good trip either has a volunteer component built in, or is organized to raise funds for a particular project we support. It is another way that we can support our community-based partners around the world ...

rethos.com Campus Marketing Director

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:23:41 -0400

ethos.com is currently looking for instigators to take on the challenge of championing Rethos on their campus. Rethos is currently looking to hire Campus Marketing Directors across North America. The benefits of this position include sought-after managerial experience, resume building, and the experience of working with an exciting team of social entrepreneurs on a venture that is poised to blow up overnight and unite millions.

The goal of the mission critical position is to drive rethos onto your campus and ally socially engaged members of the student body and thought leading ...