clients & projects (selected)
See testimonials. Case studies coming soon.
Asia
Society
Gates Foundation-funded AIDS
in Asia
inaugural event — a high-level policy forum with panels in
New York and New Delhi (with Kent Communications)
Brooklyn
Public Library
fifth largest library system in the US with 60 branches and 43,000+
public programs
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)
leader in several emerging movements helping to build the New Economy, one that is community-based, green and fair, and is creating meaningful economic change at the grassroots level
Collaborative
for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
works to establish social and emotional learning (SEL) as an essential
part of education -- founded by renowned psychologist/author Daniel
Goleman (Emotional Intelligence)
and educator/philanthropist Eileen Rockefeller Growald (with Baran
Communications)
Dalai
Lama
2003 and 2010 New York visits sponsored by Gere Foundation and
2006 visit to Shambhala
Mountain Center (with Baran
Communications)
ForestEthics
media support for "Victoria's
Dirty Secret" and other
corporate mobilization campaigns targeting environmentally destructive
catalog practices
George
Clooney
trip to Sudan to raise awareness of genocide in Darfur (with The NewsMarket)
GreenerChoices.org
free guide from the nonprofit Consumers Union, publishers of Consumer
Reports,
that offers reliable and practical advice on how to be a more
environmentally friendly consumer (with Fenton
Communications)
International
Campaign for Tibet
Richard Gere and US Ambassador Sichan Siv media op with Tibetan hunger
strikers at the United Nations in NYC (with Baran Communications)
Mind
& Life Institute
2007 "Mind
and Life XV: Mindfulness, Compassion, and the Treatment of Depression"
conference with the Dalai Lama
at Emory University (with Baran Communications)
MoveOn.org
2004 "Town Hall on Global Warming and Hollywood’s 'The Day
After Tomorrow'" in NYC with Al Gore as keynoter (with Baran
Communications)
New
York City Financial Network Action Consortium (NYCfNAC)
promotes access to financial services and credit for low-income
residents through a network of the city's leading community development
credit unions (Taproot
Foundation naming development
and brochure service grant)
Ogilvy
& Mather
[Brand Integration Group (BIG)]
creative naming development for American Express and writing support
for Coca-Cola global visual rebranding
Rainforest
Action Network
RAN has been called “some of the savviest environmental
agitators in the business” by The
Wall Street Journal and
“mosquitoes in the tent” of corporate America by Fortune
Rippel
Foundation
exploring new health paradigms that embrace the wholeness of the
individual, the power of science, the globalization of medicine, and
the challenging dynamics of our current health care system
Shambhala
Mountain Center
2006 visit of the Dalai Lama and 2007 "Courageous Women, Fearless
Living: A Retreat for Women Touched by Cancer"
Taproot
Foundation
engages teams of highly skilled professionals in pro bono work to help
local nonprofits increase their impact
Two
Twelve Associates
design firm that seeks sustainable solutions to problems of wayfinding,
information and visioning: “public information
design”
books & films & such
Arctic
Tale
2007 epic live-action wildlife adventure film that explores the vast
world of the Great North and the threat it now faces from climate
change — from Paramount Classics (An
Inconvenient Truth) and National
Geographic Films (March of the
Penguins)
Awakening
Through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness
Boston College professor and Tibetan Lama John Makransky adapts
Buddhist practices of love, compassion, and wisdom to make them freshly
accessible to Westerners: in personal life, work, service, and social
action — foreword by bestselling author Lama Surya Das
Body
of War
critically acclaimed, festival-winning film about an antiwar hero from
legendary talk show host Phil Donahue and award-winning filmmaker Ellen
Spiro — named “Best Documentary of 2007”
by the National Board of Review (with Baran Communications)
A
Brief History of Disbelief
3-part TV series with acclaimed British polymath Jonathan Miller
— a highly intelligent and rational journey through the
highly divisive topic that originally aired on the BBC and aired in the
US on PBS stations (with Baran Communications)
Buddhism
for Busy People
a bestseller in Australia, launched in the US summer 2008, it's a
uniquely accessible professional development and personal growth book,
memoir, and Buddhist primer in one meant for those of us living
high-intensity, high-stress lifestyles; from David Michie,
corporate communications consultant, novelist, longtime meditator
Byron
Katie
hailed by Time
magazine as "a visionary for the new millennium," Katie's recent book, A
Thousand Names for Joy, connects
the wisdom of the Tao Te Ching with her own method of self-inquiry, The
Work, and is a portrait of the awakened mind in action
Coming
Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal
an engaging, hopeful citizen activism guide to solving the climate and
energy crises from Michael Brune, the executive director of Rainforest
Action Network
Inner
Splendor Media
"Music for Deep Meditation" series of three recordings especially
engineered with authenticity to still and nourish the mind
Knocking
Anderson Cooper (CNN) called this award-winning 2007 PBS Independent
Lens documentary "riveting and
illuminating"; it explores the often-misunderstood world of Jehovah's
Witnesses, putting religious fundamentalism and the Culture War in a
new light
The
Mystery of Love
2006 PBS documentary that put love on the public agenda —
from the producers of Joseph
Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers
(with Baran Communications)
A
Public Betrayed: An Inside Look at Japanese Media Atrocities and Their
Warnings to the West
authors Adam Gamble and eminent Japanese media scholar Takesato
Watanabe find disturbing parallels between the US media and Japan's
corrupt, biased, and sensational media culture (with Kent
Communications)
You Don't Have to Be Buddhist to Know Nothing
collection of thoughts and quotations on the concept from Joan Konner, longtime Bill Moyers producer and former dean of Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (with Baran Communications)
