Julie Fahnestock

Julie Fahnestock
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/julie-fahnestock/42/352/957/
Julie is passionate about telling the story of where business meets good. She lives in West Palm Beach, Florida and is currently pursuing her MBA in Managing for Sustainability at Marlboro Graduate School in Vermont. She has a background in international development and grassroots organizing and is passionate about equitable wages, labor rights and the global income disparity. If you can't find Julie, don't worry. Grab your board and head south on A1A. She's probably surfing somewhere along Florida's coast.

Posts by This Writer

1 week 1 day ago

(3BL Media and Justmeans)- An open vacation policy. Frisbee on the beach. Bowling outings. Volunteer days. Time to develop personal goals. And, oh yeah.  $500 a year to spend on professional development. No, this is not a piece about working for Google or Pixar. It’s a piece about intentional culture at Exygy, a 10-person, software design and build company based in San Francisco. One of Exygy’s software engineers, Justin Carboneau, deemed himself the ‘Chief Happiness Engineer.’ Of course, he is also a computer and technology wiz, as are the rest of his colleagues at Exygy. They have designed and built unique websites for clients like Google.org, the Skoll Foundation and Zendesk. But they are more...
3 weeks 4 days ago

(3BL Media and Justmeans)- For some reason, I’ve never thought about the impact of the hotel industry on the planet. My hotel stays are typically rushed and more about what I came to a particular town to accomplish than about lounging in the hotel pool or lobby. So, except for the moment when I decide to leave my towels on the floor or hang them up, understanding how or what it takes for hotel to operate responsibly has not been on the forefront of my sustainability research.

Until . . . I started thinking about water. According to the International Tourism Green Partnership, water...
1 month 2 weeks ago

(3BL Media and Just Means)- It's been several months since I've written anything about the fair trade movement, but that's not because things aren't happening. In fact, it's the 25th anniversary of fair trade! A lot of positive things have changed and from my refreshed perspective, the fair trade movement seems to be collaborating, perhaps finally finding more common ground. Perhaps.

Here’s the good news. Fair trade is doing its job- protecting small farmers despite unpredictable fluxes in the market. Coffee prices in 2013 plummeted to less than $1.10 per pound, a devastating and poverty-inducing price. According to the International Coffee...
2 months 1 day ago

(3BL and Just Means)- Spend joyfully. Spend justly. Spend less. Give more. These bold statements are the four, key precepts taught by The Boston Faith and Justice Network (BFJN) as part of what they call ‘economic discipleship.’  BFJN is equipping Christian communities in Boston to think critically about how they use one of their most powerful resources: their income. This call to Christian communities is in response to global poverty and issues of injustice around the world. By asking Christians to examine their consumption habits, BFJN hopes to challenge the way they think about spending and giving money.

“What we are seeing is a...
2 months 3 days ago

(3BL and Just Means) - Based in Afghanistan, Roshan is changing the world's outlook on the country, changing the nation’s reputation from 'post-conflict' to innovation, security and equality: A Benefit Corporation ranking in the top 10% for Community and Workers among other B Corps. ISO certified for technology, customer care and sales.  2013 Award Recipient as the Most Innovative Company of the Year, the CSR Program of the Year, Customer Service Department of the Year for the International Business Awards for Middle East & Africa. And the list could go on and on. Roshan has received GSM Marketing, TMT...
2 months 1 week ago

 

(3BL Media and Just Means)-  Known as the ‘B Corp Guy,’ Dirk Sampselle, JD/MBA, is an expert in the benefit corporation legal entity that provides a framework and certification for companies that wish to benefit society as well as their shareholders. Sampselle became the ‘B Corp Guy’ during an internship with the B Lab, the non-profit that serves entrepreneurs by guiding them through the legal infrastructure of the Benefit Corporation certification. Sampselle helped the B Lab write the Benefit...
2 months 2 weeks ago

(3BL Media and Just Means)- “I would ask you, Julie, who are the seagulls in your life? How can you emulate the pelican behavior?" This was Beverly Winterscheid, the founding partner of Center for Nature and Leadership, and Leadership Development Professor in the Bard Sustainability MBA, talking and, as always, prodding.

Winterscheid is known to challenge people to go deeper and question assumptions. I had just explained to her how I had witnessed a group of pelicans peacefully roosting together on a dock along the Saint Augustine Intracoastal Waterway. A few seagulls began pecking at the pelicans,...
2 months 2 weeks ago

(3BL Media and Just Means)- In the middle of a conversation with film director Andrew Morgan, you suddenly find yourself standing on your feet, completely ready to radically change your lifestyle and consider the consequences of your consumption choices.  Ironically, I thought I had already considered my choices. My attitude going into this interview was just to tell the story of the upcoming film, True Cost, so that others would be moved to change. Wow, did I eat a big piece of humble pie.

“There are two paths given to people. One is incredibly funded and marketed, a world of access and consumption which denies the...
2 months 3 weeks ago

(3BL Media and Just Means)- "One picture is worth a thousand clinical words," said Crystal Law, MIT Alumna, former EMT and Co-Founder of Twiage.

The Cambridge, MA based start-up, an app called Twiage, is dramatically improving communications between EMTs and emergency rooms. Its mission is to improve communication between pre-hospital and hospital teams so that patients can have better care.  Ex-EMT Law told me that the idea for the app came to be as she was continually waiting around for health-care providers during emergency situations.

"I was passively thinking about the inconsistencies...
3 months 1 day ago

(3BL Media and Just Means)- From January 19 through January 25, Bard College is set to host Bard Works, their annual career development conference for their undergraduate students. Bard Works is a weeklong series of workshops, panels, small group discussions, and individual counseling sessions that focus on getting a job and acquiring general career skills and strategies, plus networking and life skills. In partnership with the Center for Nature and Leadership (CNL), “Path to Purpose,” a pre-workshop of Bard Works, will help students develop skills and strategies to align career goals and life values. By bringing nature-based...

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