SustainabilityPunks

Gabriella Coleman is a sustainability punk

Bare with me on this one.  Gabriella is an anthropologist that studies hacker culture.  Hackers are punk.  And nerdy girls who study them are too.  She is a Asst. Prof. of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU.

She looks at on-line activism/hacktivism and how it relates and is related too culture. While not specifically F*ing Sh!t Up for G00d like other Susty Punks, I think the approach she brings to Hacker Anthropology is desperately needed for sustainability. (The SOAP Group does this a bit with Cultural Lens studies, but not to the degree that Gabriella does.)

Good audio interview here on The Command Line.

Her Twitter

Hack on punks.

 

Elliot May is a sustainability punk

 

This one goes out to a special little man heading P.west from P.east.  Elliot May is a Sustainability Punk.  Elliot rode a fixy into Portland, Maine to run sponsorships and deveopment for Reverb.  He had an idea to start Portland Greendrinks.  So he did. The growth of the network was geometric thanks to his energy.  Sadly, E's moving to Portland West where he will continue to work for Reverb and fight the good fight. 

His lady friend works here selling boxers made of bamboo (bamboxers) in Portand West.  Nuff said.

Jacquie Ottman is a sustainbility punk

Ms. Ottman is considered to be the nation's foremost expert on green marketing.  Not one of.  The.  She started her firm in 1989 way before "green" was a glimmer in the mainstream marketers eye.  Today you can't swing a faux-fur fox without hitting someone who works for the green division of a dirty agency.  Being first is Punk.

Follow her on Twitter here.

Her consulting firm is here.

Add Jacquie to your network on Linked In.

Her latest book,  New Rules of Green Marketing is here.

John Marshall Roberts is a Sustinability Punk

If you cut John Marshall Roberts in half, you see spirals instead of rings.  He's a reengage Gravesian shrink who has focused his consulting career on helping business leaders be more empathetic.  It's refreshing in a din-world filled with consultants focused on helping business leaders be more profitable at any cost.  I believe Roberts is one of the four horsemen of the business-as-usual Apocalypse. 

Buy his book here.

Read more about him here.

His consulting firm can be found here.

Follow him on Twitter here.

Check out his TedCh talk just below.

 

Ben "Bad Science" Goldacre is a sustainability punk.

A self-described "nerd" and me-described British-spaz-god, Goldacre is on to something with his reliance on science and debunking of "woo." His main point is important in our era of 'everything can be proved and there's no such thing as truth' - bad science kills.

Read is column in the Guardian here.

Follow him on Twitter here.

Order his book here.

His wonderful POPTech talk is below.

 

Ray Anderson is a Sustainability Punk

The story is well known by now...Ray's "spear in the chest moment" when we woke up and became the Radial Industrialist. Ray is the founder and chairman of Interface a $1B/year carpet company.  Carpet, it should be known, is not necessarily a clean industry, but thanks to Ray's leadership it's on its way...fast.

Interface's journey up Mount Sustainability is being played out in public. 

You can follow the path here.

Buy Ray's books here.

See Interface's latest call for other companies to make bold goals here.

 

Dan Shapley

 Shapley is the senior editor of TheDailyGreen.  I met him at a LOHAS thing in NYC and grabbed the photo above while asking people to confess the least sustainable thing about them.  Dan knows his passionate love afair with the hamburger is bad for the planet.  Look how sad he looks.  He's a prolific writer about all things green and daily. Follow his tweeting here.

Kierán Suckling

Suckling is the ED of The Center for Biological Diversity, a group that came out of a bunch of EarthFirst!ers. TCBD uses campaigning and lawsuits to fuck shit up for good. But don't think they are a bunch of environmental law sluts.  Check out his comment about the "professionalization" of the environmental movement.  

"I think the professionalization of the environmental movement has injured it greatly. These kids get degrees in environmental conservation and wildlife management and come looking for jobs in the environmental movement. I’m more interested in hiring philosophers, linguists, and poets. The core talent of a successful environmental activist is not science and law. It’s campaigning instinct. That’s not only not taught in the universities, it’s discouraged."

Despite their douchey frog logo, they are kicking some ass.  Join their network here.  Or just follow them on Twitter if you want to watch it get done instead of get involved.

David Quilty

A.K.A. The Good Human.  I like how TGH calls out companies (that's you Monsanto) when they send bull shit green press releases to him. 

From his Twitter feed

"Told Lockheed Martin PR hack that I would gladly cover their "green-ness" once they stopped making fighter jets and missiles. No word yet."

"Dear giant companies - Your PR people are hacks. Hire me to do it; at least I will bother to find out who I am emailing before I send. :)"  

"HP decided that since I didnt answer their mass email about Earth Day, they would send again."

"Ugh. PR from Pepsi about environmental initiatives. Hey Pepsi, remove the HFCS and then we can talk environment."

Or, his ability to simply say "bull shit"

"Follow #fortunegreen to see "greens" tripping over selves to support nukes, Monsanto, Walmart, etc. It's quite amusing, in an irritating way."

Check out his blog.  And Twitter.

Note: TGH comes to SustyPunk with high recommendation from another SustyPunk, Shea Guther, a blogger for MNN. (I wish I could hire Gunther to manage my social media.)

Lauren Sullivan

Co-founder of Reverb, a non-profit that works with bands to lower the carbon footprint of their tours, Sullivan is a Sustainability Punk.  She's taking on the music industry and has gathered an impressive line up of rock stars (Pearl Jam, DMB, BNL, Jack Johnson, Bonnie Raitt, and more) to the table.  With Reverb (and founding rockers like Willie Nelson, The Roots, Guster, and Linkin Park), she has recently helped launch the Green Music Group, "a large-scale, high-profile environmental coalition of musicians, industry leaders and music fans using our collective power to bring about widespread environmental change within the music industry and around the globe."  

You should take the GMG Challenge.