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How sustainable is your cat video?
Got six seconds for the premiere of my first Vine video? I call it…wait for it… “Cat-tastrophe.” The piece poses many daring questions, punctures paradigms, and borrows from the anarchistic…
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7 reasons why business leaders fear storytelling
Guest article by famed screenwriting coach, Robert McKee The Boldt Company builds mammoth construction projects: power plants, hospitals, educational and industrial complexes. But before Boldt can build, it must win…
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How a frog can save a forest with storytelling
One of the great challenges in sustainable storytelling is that brands and causes don’t take the time to understand their audiences in a Godlike way. Their stories don’t resonate because…
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A watershed evening when Robert Redford opened for me!
I enjoyed the remarkable honor of sharing the stage with Robert Redford Saturday evening during the Raise The River event at the Arizona Science Center. Raise The River is a…
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8 reasons why your brain craves visual storytelling
Most powerpoint visuals are benign charts, graphs and bulleted lists of nonsense that wallpaper over the true story behind the presentation. I just received this terrific infographic on the power…
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Matt Damon’s potty humor pushes movement
There is nothing funny about 780 million people without clean drinking water. Or 2.5 billion people that lack access to a toilet or proper sanitation. So it may surprise you…
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A double shot of brand storytelling at Creative Mornings in Scottsdale
I recently spoke at our local Creative Mornings, the monthly breakfast lecture series hosted in cities around the nation. The theme was “Reuse in Creativity.” No, it wasn’t a celebration of plagiarism.…
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What chief sustainability officers can learn from screenwriting
(The following article appeared today on the Sustainable Brands website.) If all the world’s a stage, according to Bill Shakespeare, then one needs to look no further than the c-suite…
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“Miraculous and horrifying” – The largest glacier calving ever caught on film
This glacier has retreated 9 miles in the past 10 years, more than it had retreated in the previous 100 years. Watch as a section larger than the tip of…