Visit to WiserEarth

Visited WiserEarth’s Sausalito office with Keshav today, to pitch Locra to them and see how we could use WiserEarth’s current resources. If you haven’t heard of WiserEarth, they seek to connect every and anyone who is part of the movement towards sustainability and making the world a better place. In short, somewhat like a social network for do-gooders around the world. You can read more about them here, and browse their fascinating world map here.

The WiserEarth site

We pitched Locra.org to Angus and Wibowo, the director and chief editor of WiserEarth over 2 hours. They were able to tell us where we were headed in the right direction, and offered us great advice on how to move forward. It was humbling to listen to them talk about how WiserEarth came about and how they planned to move it forward, tapping on their veteran wisdom.

Meanwhile, things are looking up for Locra.org. After the summer lull, we are ready to pick up, reorganize and move on. Along the way we have managed to hit a few new ideas which look very promising- I’ll write about them another day. Next week we begin recruitment, and from there things will be much more interesting as we move forward.

On another note, paying for the taxi ride from the San Francisco Caltrain station to WiserEarth’ office in Sausalito cost a fortune. The public transport outside of the city is non-existent, and I can’t rent a car till I’ve had my license for a year. Thus I might be getting a cheap car if finances allow, and will be going for my driving test soon.