Random Word Poem #34

Sunsets don't get much better than this one over @GrandTetonNPS. #nature #sunset pic.twitter.com/YuKy2rcjyU

— US Department of the Interior (@Interior) May 5, 2014

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Litterati

From March 26 to May 9, Litterati: Using Technology to Clean the Planet, will be on view at the Recology Environmental Learning Center. 

Exhibition-March 26 to May 9 (gallery hours: Tuesdays 1-3 pm, and by appointment)
Reception-Friday, April 25, 5-8 pm (with talks by founder Jeff Kirschner and author Beth Terry beginning at 7 pm)
Music by Jazz Trio Larry-Go-Round and the Rhythm Ponies

Environmental Learning Center, 401 Tunnel Avenue, San Francisco, CA

Admission is free and open to the public, all ages welcome, wheelchair accessible.

Sponsored by the Recology Artist in Residence Program, this exhibition features photographs from Litterati, a movement that encourages the public to document litter using the photo-sharing service Instagram, and then properly dispose of the trash. Since its inception in 2012, more than 40,000 pieces of litter have been photographed, cataloged, and properly discarded. The exhibition will feature photographs from locations around the world, demonstrating this innovative use of social media to address environmental issues and initiate positive change.

Litterati

CTRC is an environmental charity that provides free computers to under-served portions of the community; and also collects e-waste in a responsible manner, which is then refurbished or sent to an in-State, eStewards-certified refinery.

I have been working with Anne-Christine Pajunen and Jolene Lewis Valentine on a blog and web pages for them. 

You are welcome to visit at ewastecollective.org/wordpress.

Clean and Green

If non-profits are to address the failures of a market system, then does it follow that the market system can address the failures of non-profits? That I think is the core of the issue that Dan Palotta addresses in this fascinating TED talk.

 Dan Palotta is Chief Humanity Officer of Advertising for Humanity, and the author of Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up for Itself and Really Change the World.

 Read transcript here --
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong/transcript.