Birth: 1965
I've come across a lot of people in my life who talk about poverty and talk about the poor, but you rarely have a sense that it matters to them to th….
The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame. World leaders had a once in a….
A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.'.
If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more pe….
Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children..
I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In apartheid South Africa he was public enemy num….
Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be better, then I'm a saint.".
The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's rig….
The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to the fuss around them and so….
The Social License is fundamentally about accountability to people and not just powerful interests. John Morrison’s book reminds all organizations – ….
My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders are denying th….
Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs..
You know how they say, 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?' What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic..
There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter..
Nelson Mandela was just a human being, a person like other people, and everyone relaxed. Within a minute, that sort of thing about the leader and the….
Nelson's Mandela own sense of himself was a very humble reading, [different] from how the world read him. And, quite often, you had the sense that he….
Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest.".
I first met Nelson Mandela when I was in my late 20s, in 1993. I was helping facilitate an African National Congress (ANC) workshop to plan its media….
Currently, we allow our political and business leaders to get away with murder. Now is the time to change that. We need direct liability for those wh….
Many people theorize poverty, but so many elements of poverty, individually, for most people who theorize about poverty would be really difficult to ….
With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are ….