Feb 19
So we’ve been counting our good fortune with friends this past week and have been busy looking at different 100% recycled packaging options. Stay tuned for details and let us know what your thoughts are!
Feb 14
Here are some interesting statistics from American Greetings:
- 1 billion valentines are sent each year globally
- 25% of all seasonal cards are valentines, making it the 2nd largest card-sending holiday (behind Christmas)
- Over 36 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate are sold annually
- 10% of engagements happen on this day
The 1 billion cards would stretch around the world 5 times! Green Living Tips has some great ideas including making a card using recycled or natural materials. Read more on their site!
Source
Image comes from: http://www.treehugger.com/green-valentines-day-roses.JPG
Feb 13
Our story is told in this 1.4 minutes video posted by Reuters.com today.
GreenSoul Shoes featured in Reuters.com
Feb 12
I understand the phrase “global citizenship” much more deeply today than I did a few years ago. My teammates and I have traveled different paths in a diverse global environment and we have come to better understand our commonalities.
A large part of the reason why we are doing GreenSoul Shoes is to share with others our journey to better understand the phrase, “global citizenship.” I suppose one way of defining it is to take a macro view of the world and the planet that we live in. Take a look at this video and let us know what you think.
Feb 12
We are starting to get people sending us messages asking if they can help get the word out (and we love it!). Below are two from the same person, Celeste, one from her Cantonese meetup group and one as a badge on her personal blog site.
Thank you for your vote of confidence and we hope that others follow! Send us screenshots of your badge and we will be sure to post it here–the more creative the better! Here are some creative ones to get you thinking!
**Update: Celeste writes back:
Xie Xie Knee! Merci Beaucoup! Gracias! Danke Schoen! Arigato! Grazie! Obrigado! Daw Jie!
Feb 10
We got this video from Colt USA – Cambodian Organization for the Learning and Training- via our staffer Lyel’s friend Talia who works with them. Thanks for sharing. More here.
Jan 30
One of the great things that came out of our conversation with Sidney Hargro was that we should apply to Harvard’s Business Plan competition: http://www.pitchforchange.org. We were originally quite excited until we realized that the eligibility requirement was that a team member must be a current Harvard graduate student.
Thank you Sidney for the idea! Sidney is also pointing us to other resources he knows of and has noted that he will be forwarding our company’s information to his friends to ask for other suggestions/ideas. Do you know of other people we should be chatting with?
-Stephen
Image from: http://www.vpfo.msu.edu/site_graphics/GreenIdeas.jpg
Jan 29
So we have added two new staffers at GreenSoul Shoes: Lyel Resner and Ada Sims. Lyel’s bio is listed below–we’ll get Ada’s up soon enough!
Lyel Resner is an international NGO community builder having coordinated a number of nonprofit volunteer initiatives in South America. Recent accomplishments include designing and implementing a water filtration system in the slums of Costa Rica and helping develop La Fundacion de Omtepe, an NGO that provides educational and community services in rural Nicaragua. Lyel is a former Emerging Markets analyst for Deutsche Bank. He holds degrees in Physics and Political Science from MIT.
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