Today's Kansas City Star reported on the broad contours of our upcoming electronic waste household collection pilot program.  

Two slight corrections: though Missouri is on the short list of states where the pilot project may take place, the program will be managed from our Missouri office.   The pilot is less traditional mail-in program, with more  focus on on-the-ground consolidation, thereby reducing overall carbon footprint.

Read the full story here.

In November, I visited Ethiopia for the first time to make this presentation at the  Ethiopian National Agricultural Learning Event, with our partner, Addis Ababa-based FarmOrganic International:

 Day one of the conference featured research and best practices presented by international non-governmentlal organizations like Oxfam and CARE that have worked in the region for decades, to the federal government,  Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Women's Affairs, to multi-lateral, international organizations like the World Bank, to multiple regional agricultural centres and Farmers Unions which live the subject.

A straw poll of 30+ Americans and Europeans, and a handful of Middle Easterners, reveals that the prevailing perception of Ethiopia (for decades) has been the starving child.  

Peter Senge and colleagues detail in The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World  three competencies that separate leading organizations from the rest: 

This Seth Godin post makes the wonderful distinction between process and content.  As we prepare to publicly reorient the purpose and market position of Small Planet Partners around values -- now manifesting, though  a mere murmur to the subconscious for far too long, I hope to convey process strengths in the work-in-progress that follows.  Please share your candid first impressions, reactions and suggestions to this preview: