Please give at least a day's notice, preferably more. I only check my messages once or twice a day.

CURRENT MISSION
Use the power of business and the profit motive to turn hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance. Move the world toward ethical, eco-friendly, peace-oriented practices

ABOUT ME
Author of ten books (mostly on business/marketing as a catalyst for change), but also on having fun cheaply and on environmental issues). Live on a working dairy farm in Massachusetts (we don't farm it--our neighbors do). With my wife, co-founded the movement that saved our mountain from a really disastrous housing development. Lifelong entrepreneur, very interested in social media (I've been active since 1995). Operate a number of websites, including http://goingbeyondsustainability.com, http://frugalfun.com, and various others. Post a daily gratitude journal on Facebook since March, 2018.

International speaker, especially proud of my TEDx Talk,
"Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World"
http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809

Current environmental and social justice activities: immigration justice, safe energy/opposing nuclear and fossil power, local and national electoral politics, speaking to business owners about how to build profitable environmental and social justice initiatives.

PHILOSOPHY
Every person can make a difference in the world--especially when joining with others. Ordinary people change the world, over and over again--if we believe we can.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've been a homestay traveler/host with Servas since 1983, have traveled extensively, stayed with and hosted many wonderful people from all over the world. On Couchsurfing since 2009. I've had many positive experiences as both host and traveler. When we have time, we enjoy sharing meals, showing the sights (or at least directing to you toward the best ones for your interests), and talking about the world. IMPORTANT: THERE IS ALMOST NO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION (there is one bus that goes by a few times a day and stops about 1/3 mile away). WE ARE 7 MILES FROM NORTHAMPTON AND 9 FROM AMHERST. IF YOU WANT TO STAY WITH US, YOU WILL NEED YOUR OWN TRANSPORTATION (personal vehicle, taxis, Lyft, Uber, Zipcar, or a good bike that can climb steep hills on roads with fast traffic and in some places no shoulder). If you can't swing that, maybe we can meet for a meal or coffee in one of the nearby towns, but it will not work to stay with us. Also, we are NOT CONVENIENT TO THE BOSTON AREA. Boston is 100 miles/160 km and takes two hours by car, three via public transit.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Visited 50 states and about 50 countries. Have done homestay visits in many of them (not all through CS).

Interests

Environmental and social justice, business ethics, marketing, copywriting, publishing, land use, transportation, alternative energy, local economies, community self-sufficiency, local economies, politics, books, music, gourmet vegetarian food, fair trade and organic food (including the darkest possible chocolate). My own most recent (10th) book is Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World, all about how business can profit by creating and marketing products and services that directly make a difference on things like hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change.

See my TEDx at http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809 , and my main website, http://goingbeyondsustainability.com

• culture
• writing
• books
• environment
• ethics
• dining
• cooking
• chocolate
• vegetarian
• organic food
• politics
• traveling
• music
• business
• communications
• entrepreneurship
• climate justice

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: folk, folk-rock, world beat, classical. Favorite artists include Lorena McKennett, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Indigo Girls, Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, Rachmaninof, Bob Blue, Rolling Stones, The Who.

BOOKS: Harry Potter, The Color Purple, The Golden Compass, The Golem and the Jinni ,Blue Economy 3.0, Net Positive, Business Solution to Poverty, the Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Hug Your Customers, Love Is the Killer App, Sell Yourself Without Selling Your Soul, Revolutionary Nonviolence, Co-opetition, The Company We Keep, Values-Driven Business, Waiting for Your Cat to Bark?, The Success Principles, The Power of Nice, Small Is Beautiful, Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green, The Great Formula, Influencer, Javatrecker, Cash Copy, Anastasia Krupnick, A Wrinkle in Time, Escaping Into the Night, Playing Dad's Song…

MOVIES: Life Is Beautiful, Big Fish, You Can't Take It With You, Bringing Up Baby, Thank You for Smoking, Wag the Dog, American Dreamz, Mrs Doubtfire, RBG, pretty much anything with Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, or Katharine Hepburn

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Here are two: Started a successful movement to save our local mountain. Was part of the 1977 Seabrook nuclear power plant occupation that birthed the safe energy movement as a national force in the US. I'm hoping that in a few years, I can add beginning a business movement to turn hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance--this is the focus of my work right now.

Teach, Learn, Share

Business ethics, social change, and eco-friendly policies as success drivers
How to write and publish a book successfully
Speaking around the country and around the world on Green and ethical business success, book publishing and marketing, and social change
Frugal and ethical marketing
Local community organizing
Having fun cheaply
Great-tasting, healthy vegetarian and vegan cooking (and I know many dishes that are gluten-free and//or low-FODMAP)

What I Can Share with Hosts

A positive attitude about change. Good vegetarian home cooking. Lots of travel and organizing and culture stories.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Wales

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