WiserEarth Blog

If you’ve spent any time on the WiserEarth events, groups, or resources sections, it’s likely you’ve run into GreenEric. He’s the ‘Water guy’, always posting the latest activity, primarily on more efficient uses of the stuff. So who is he? What drives him? Could his answers to these questions inspire you to take a closer look at one of our most precious resources on earth? › Continue reading…

We are sharing some of our standard advice for designing an effective online group. We believe the key to any effective group is simplicity. Relatively few key topline messages, a lack of clutter, and relatively little functionality. Do you have any ideas to share? › Continue reading…

Over 60% of the people using WiserEarth are coming from outside the US. They are from 231 countries and speak 172 languages! But the majority of our members are still English speakers. People have been asking us for WiserEarth in their own language. Can you volunteer or chip in some funding to help us do this? › Continue reading…

Over the past 6 months, I’ve had the pleasure of facilitating a community of practice for funders supporting networks. The question that keeps coming up is: how to make the case that working through and investing in networks will produce the intended social impact? At the same time, the belief in network impact is becoming more widespread–-the potential for organizing without organizations, the power of developing a strategic understanding of webs of relationships, and the promise of openly sharing both data and new knowledge. There is more and more experimentation with network models for social impact. › Continue reading…

The climate change movement has been gaining momentum in recent months. We’ve felt it building at organizations like 350.org in preparation for the major UN Climate Change conference in Copenhagen this December. We had a call with social media coordinator Joe Solomon of 350.org to get a sense of what it’s like to be in the middle of it all, and his thoughts on how to effectively network for a cause. › Continue reading…

Last Monday, WiserEarth hosted its first ever face to face gathering of our volunteer editors. Seven California-based editors plus a few staff met to discuss the role and future direction of editors. We didn’t just talk, but engaged in a friendly game of four-square. How does your organization take volunteer moderators to the next level? › Continue reading…

We would like to encourage you to become involved with the International Day of Climate Action! The momentum is building for Copenhagen… › Continue reading…

Where would WiserEarth be without the hard work of its contributors? If you’ve added an event or an organization, a resource or a job, you are one of our valued contributors. Each small step we take adds up to a huge wave of sustainable knowledge and action. We’d like to take this opportunity to feature some of our most prolific volunteer contributors to date who continue to make WiserEarth the community it is today. Thanks for all that you do! › Continue reading…