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In Memoriam: Ray Anderson, Green Business Champion Communicator

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As communicators for social change, we know that our work won’t produce instant results, won’t necessarily earn us millions and won’t always be valuable in certain people’s eyes. As a green business pioneer Ray Anderson said, “Well, it’s hard. It’s the work of a lifetime. It takes an awful lot of patience and stick-to-itiveness.”

Family Farmers Can Help Diminish U.S. Health and Environment Crises

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This post is a part of our series of contributions for Social Good Day.

While Americans struggle to heed advice to eat less, move more and stay out of their cars, most pundits have overlooked one of the key approaches to addressing our country’s health and environmental problems–supporting and promoting fresh, non-processed food from family [...]

InSites to Participate in Social Good Day on September 23

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Tomorrow, InSites bloggers will be celebrating Social Good Day by contributing blog posts about the issues central to our work at Vanguard Communications.  According to Mashable and (RED), Social Good Day is an opportunity to provide solutions to the challenges facing our world:

We’re interested in unleashing fresh thinking about how social media can raise [...]

AP Creates an Oil Spill Editor — New Trend in Covering the Gulf Coast Disaster

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On Wednesday, the Associated Press (AP) announced the appointment of former Jerusalem bureau chief Steve Gutkin as their new “Oil Spill Editor.” According to a memo sent to AP staff and released to the Poynter Institute:

The Gulf Oil spill has been an enormous journalistic challenge. A sprawling story, much of it occurring literally out [...]

Earth Day's 40th Anniversary Reveals Opinion Writing Best Practices

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Happy 40th Anniversary Earth Day!

Twenty years ago, Vanguard Communications provided communications support for Earth Day 1990, culminating with the first national Earth Day rally in Washington, D.C.  With 350,000 attendees, it was an overwhelming success, and it began a tradition that continues to this day, with the Climate Rally on the National Mall, scheduled [...]