Common Ground Partnership

BSR in NYC

I’m off next week to the Big Apple, attending a conference put on by an organization called Business for Social Responsibility www.bsr.org. Big corporations may be an easy target – even a deserving one –  for their contribution to the nasty state of our environment. But they finally seem to be coming around to the realization that it actually is good business strategy to think and act responsibly. OK, so it may be self-serving, i.e. healthy profits and feel-good PR from green behavior. Yet I can’t help but think that it’s a positive step in the right direction as long as they dedicate money, technology and human resources to help fix the mess that we’ve created. We are all in this together.

Green Drinks and Green Networking

It was a pleasure to connect with a really lively group last night in the heart of L.A.’s Westside. LA Green Drinks www.lagreendrinks.blogspot.com is part of an International group, loosely aligned but all with the same notion: Once a month in cities all over the world, people in the environmental field meet for a beer and schmoozing in a session known as Green Drinks. Anyone concerned about environmental issues attends: NGOs, academia, government, business, even just the curious. LA Green Drinks/Culver City is the 1st Thursday of every month.

LA Green Drinks/Silverlake is the 3rd Thursday of every month. To subscribe to the LA Green Drinks list, email: lagreendrinks@gmail.com.

Wanna meet me there next month?

Digital Art and the Environment

Art and technology each uniquely contributes to closing the gap between disparate cultures. Digital art actually leverages the best of both worlds.

At Common Ground, we use new technologies to give voice to artists around the world who share concerns about an issue that unites us all: Environmental sustainability and pollution prevention.  To be sure, there are many other important shared concerns that know no boundaries, from hunger, to violence, to disease…each that calls for more cross-cultural exchange.

One issue seems to overlap all others. It’s global in scope while at the same time has a very personal affect on each and every one of us. That issue is our environment and ensuring we that take better care of it.

Common Ground is a place for different viewpoints on the environment from individual artists around the world. They collaborate with each other, learn from each other, and perhaps even contribute to new and creative solutions to some of our most urgent environmental concerns.

Are you ready for your voice – and your artistic expression– to make a difference? Please join our community and let your voice be heard.