The Carrot Project

For the first time ever, Carl and I are in the same city at the same time. For the first time ever, we talked Carrot Project in three dimensions. And, for the first time ever, we had a meeting interrupted by the Hyatt Regency O’Hare’s participation in Earth ...

I think of Carrotmob as a distant cousin. Not distant like we only share a few genes, because I think the biological relationship is crazy close. But distant like The Carrot Project’s little branch of the family moved to China a couple of generations before CP was born, and ...

I have a cat. You can see him in the thumbnail above. His name is Beans. And, unsurprisingly, he eats cat food.

One ingredient in that cat food is fish meal, and that, according to NY Times Op-Ed contributor Paul Greenberg, is a worry.

A worry to the forage fish ...

Big apologies to the Obamas for Friday’s post.

One bummer about reading newspapers online is that big, unfoldable visuals turn into fine print thumbnails. Notice what’s growing in the garden’s bottom right hand corner…

And fine print is no excuse. I should have paid closer attention.

I ...

Checked in on Rod Dreher’s* blog today and learned that our First Lady and some fifth grader friends of hers spent a little time digging and planting on the South Lawn this morning.

Made me wonder what they’re growing.

Yesterday’s New York Times had the answer…

The ...

GoodGuide just launched their food product ratings. Milk, baby food, meat, pasta, and juice ratings, to list a few. Plus articles on sugar, cows, and artificial coloring, among others. It’s good stuff: a great next step for GoodGuide and a great new resource for everyone.

Those guys are the ...

EVERYONE’S talking about it…

And it’s looking like TP might play a prominent role in our Facebook App, too. But more about that in a few weeks.

This is definitely worth a click.

Also worth dropping your user name in the “Name or Malkovich” box, entering your password, and having a look at the Malkoviched product categories. Silly silly silly.

Nothing like a cleverly righteous cynic to flip on the late night adrenaline drip and stir the big optimism.

We need to prove that guy wrong.

And then throw him a conciliatory, congratulatory (and sincere) pizza party when he starts writing about the crunchiest companies and their smashing successes.

Thank ...

One of the primary reasons I’m posting this video is that my sister hasn’t seen me with my ridiculous mustache yet. Just so you know…

I’ve used the bike mechanic illustration before. Lots of times. Even made a little presentation out of it once. And then wrote ...

Here are the world’s 50 most admired (big) companies according to Fortune Magazine’s corporate exec polling.

Fortune considers it “the definitive report card on corporate reputations,” with executives and analysts rating “companies in their own industry on nine criteria, from investment value to social responsibility.”

If The Carrot ...

We want to build a Facebook application to complement The Carrot Project.

We have a few ideas we like. We’ve found the man to build the app. And we’re excited to build something simple, small, and tangential: something that can, if it wants or needs to at first ...