September 17, 2006
Uplift
Thought I'd share a few things I collected over the weekend that felt uplifting (besides those things which are not purely positve, like the fishy pre election plummeting of the price of gas, the promptest apology in history by a Pope, and identification of the E. coli sources).
I subscribed to Good Magazine, 26 year old, Inc. Magazine heir Ben Goldhirsh's new venture. He is one of the privileged, (Andover, Brown, 10 million to throw into the venture), who is trying to use his resources to impact society in a positive way.
“There is a hunger out there,” he explained. “If you go to any top college and meet the students, they all have these causes. And when they graduate, they have idealism as an ambition. There’s a real gap between that vision and what you can actually do. So we want to integrate living well and doing good.”To this end, one of the magazine’s early marketing gimmicks is that the annual subscription fee of $20 for six issues will go to a charity the reader chooses. The campaign is called Choose Good.
Subscription money to charity? Hardly a business model. “This doesn’t sound like a completely serious business venture,” said Mr. Block, [a retired magazine executive, publisher and consultant] who has not seen the magazine, when he heard about the idea. “I’m not saying they’re not serious about what they’re doing. But there’s nothing wrong with a profit motive, and the first law of any start-up should be survival.”
Good for him.
My, soon to be famous, netty friend Natalie over at Blaugustine discovered, via a circuitous route, Animusic's delightful Pipe Dream. If, after clicking, you scroll down and look over to the right, you will see an entire array of their productions to enjoy.
Photo note: AND I took a pretty picture at the farmstand, where I was busy buying locally grown, not quite organic produce. What are those flowers anyway? -- They're everywhere
Posted by Dakota at September 17, 2006 08:26 PM