This week, Dan Cox was kind enough to provide us with some inspiration when he borrowed the board for a meeting and returned it with a flow chart that looked like it came straight out of health class. Dan commented on the charts remarkable resemblance to a diagram of reproductive organs and we thought why not show a green idea in the womb?

This kick started the discussion on how a green idea is born. What happens in the brain-womb? What do you feed it when you’ve finally thought it out and given birth to your precious bundle of eco-conscious though? Why do some green ideas meet an almost instant and untimely death?

We came up with the five major killers of a Green Idea, they are as follows:

1. Cost
2. Republicans
3. Convenience
4. Apathy
5. Availability

We also developed a food pyramid for Green Ideas. We here at A Different Direction care about Green Ideas and want to make sure that there are guidelines available for brainy new parents so that they can see their Green gift to the world fully realized.

To keep your green idea alive feed it daily:

6-11 servings of ECOMAGINATON
Ecomagnination combats apathy!

3-5 servings of COMMON SENSE
Common sense fights high costs; the #1 killer of green ideas!

2-4 servings of SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Being socially responsible means striving to seek out alternatives that aren’t necessarily convenient.

2-3 servings of ORGANIC COTTON & HEMP
Everyone knows that organic hemp scares away republicans & cotton is the fabric of our lives after all.

2-3 servings of SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES
Using sustainable resources means that your Green Idea will be available to the world now and 50 years from now…but not in a landfill or anything…around in a good way.

Sparingly – Granola
Granola is tasty!

Well it’s finally fall – hooray equnox! The leaves are begining to turn lovely atumnul colors and only two months until Starbucks rolls out their Gingerbread Latte!

Becki was browsing a list of top 5 albums that people had made on amazon.com and noticed that a whole mess of folks had a really hard time sticking to only five (or they just put 5 albums by Rush) so we where at A Different Direction decided to take up the challenge. It was much harder than we though! We had three ground rules

1. The list would be in no particular order
2. Only ONE greatest hits album per list
3. Don’t judge others lists – silently or out loud

Everyone knows that Monday is the most dangerous day of the week. We here at a Different Direction have put together a lovely chart to help you navigate through your work week.

**UPDATE – Tuesday has been promoted to the 2nd most dangerous day of the week, and Friday has been demoted to the least dangerous day.

There are many things our company is good at…climate control is not one of them.

In loving memory of all the yack that have so selflessly given their lives to feed hungry people.

BASECAMP 2010!

This was a truly collaborative effort. 🙂