Rio+20 Meets OWS – the Environmental Movement & Greening of Occupy

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No one needs to cite the sins of Fox News, nor the tepid and not-quite-accurate reporting of main stream media, to support my contention that you have to go the source directly, if you want to know something correctly.

This is especially important when the subject is the UN Rio+20 Earth Summit on the environment and how this of necessity connects with the Occupy Movement.  By being both under-reported and poorly reported, the struggles to save our planet and our financial well-being by both #Occupy and #Green are met with tepid enthusiasm or even resistance.

This interview should help redress that condition for the listener who wants to truly be informed.  If you are an environmentalist – the upcoming Rio+20 Conference on June 20-22 is a hot topic, as you will hear.  If you are an occupier, thanks to this conversation with Ted Schulman you will be encouraged and energized as well.

Ted Schulman, who is both an Occupier and an Environmentalist,  is a man who has always inhabited interesting worlds.  At one time a member of the “Mad Men” culture we see on HBO, serving to manage a technology group for TBWA\Chiat\Day, the global ad agency known for campaigns for Apple Computer, Absolut, Nissan, Pepsi, Visa, he also was instrumental in creating an award winning interactive technology demonstration project, The Learning Center at Ellis Island, and HarlemNYC.US as an example online community developed for New York State’s application as a Federal Empowerment Zone.

Today, Ted is managing partner of Transformative Communities, a technology company helping clients to realize the value of open source technology, innovation and learning systems.

Listen carefully as Ted weaves together the two worlds of climate and financial concerns.  As someone who was at Zuccotti Park from Day One and instrumental in writing Open Source into the principles of OWS and now promoting  Rio+20 and pioneering a summer global celebration via www.OccupyTheEarth.net, you will find yourself interested and engaged.

Ted’s email is Ted@Transcoms.com and his website is www.transcoms.com.

Check out this story on Jerry Ashton’s Huffington Post blog