See testimonials. Selected case studies summarized under various offerings.

Asia Society
Gates Foundation-funded AIDS in Asia inaugural event — a high-level policy forum with panels in New York and New Delhi (with Kent Communications)

Brooklyn Public Library
fifth largest library system in the US with 60 branches and 43,000+ public programs

Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)
leader in several emerging movements helping to build the New Economy, one that is community-based, green and fair, and is creating meaningful economic change at the grassroots level

Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
works to establish social and emotional learning (SEL) as an essential part of education -- founded by renowned psychologist/author Daniel Goleman (Emotional Intelligence) and educator/philanthropist Eileen Rockefeller Growald (with Baran Communications)

Dalai Lama
2003 and 2010 New York visits sponsored by Gere Foundation and 2006 visit to Shambhala Mountain Center (with Baran Communications)

ForestEthics
media support for "Victoria's Dirty Secret" and other corporate mobilization campaigns targeting environmentally destructive catalog practices

George Clooney
trip to Sudan to raise awareness of genocide in Darfur (with The NewsMarket)

GreenerChoices.org
free guide from the nonprofit Consumers Union, publishers of Consumer Reports, that offers reliable and practical advice on how to be a more environmentally friendly consumer (with Fenton Communications)

International Campaign for Tibet
Richard Gere and US Ambassador Sichan Siv media op with Tibetan hunger strikers at the United Nations in NYC (with Baran Communications)

Mind & Life Institute
2007 "Mind and Life XV: Mindfulness, Compassion, and the Treatment of Depression" conference with the Dalai Lama at Emory University (with Baran Communications)

MoveOn.org
2004 "Town Hall on Global Warming and Hollywood’s 'The Day After Tomorrow'" in NYC with Al Gore as keynoter (with Baran Communications)

New York City Financial Network Action Consortium (NYCfNAC)
promotes access to financial services and credit for low-income residents through a network of the city's leading community development credit unions (Taproot Foundation naming development and brochure service grant)

Ogilvy & Mather [Brand Integration Group (BIG)]
creative naming development for American Express and writing support for Coca-Cola global visual rebranding

Rainforest Action Network
RAN has been called “some of the savviest environmental agitators in the business” by The Wall Street Journal and “mosquitoes in the tent” of corporate America by Fortune

Rippel Foundation
exploring new health paradigms that embrace the wholeness of the individual, the power of science, the globalization of medicine, and the challenging dynamics of our current health care system

Shambhala Mountain Center
2006 visit of the Dalai Lama and 2007 "Courageous Women, Fearless Living: A Retreat for Women Touched by Cancer"

Taproot Foundation
engages teams of highly skilled professionals in pro bono work to help local nonprofits increase their impact

Two Twelve Associates
design firm that seeks sustainable solutions to problems of wayfinding, information and visioning: “public information design”

books & films & such

ACROSS MANY MOUNTAINS: A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom
actress/model/activist Yangzom Brauen's 2011 multi-generational portrait of three strong, determined women that was an instant bestseller abroad, spending more than 40 weeks on the Spiegel Bestseller list in Germany and Switzerland (St. Martin's Press)

Arctic Tale
2007 epic live-action wildlife adventure film that explores the vast world of the Great North and the threat it now faces from climate change — from Paramount Classics (An Inconvenient Truth) and National Geographic Films (March of the Penguins)

AWAKENING THROUGH LOVE: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness
Boston College professor and Tibetan Lama John Makransky adapts Buddhist practices of love, compassion, and wisdom to make them freshly accessible to Westerners: in personal life, work, service, and social action — foreword by bestselling author Lama Surya Das (Wisdom Publications)

Body of War
critically acclaimed, festival-winning film about an antiwar hero from legendary talk show host Phil Donahue and award-winning filmmaker Ellen Spiro — named “Best Documentary of 2007” by the National Board of Review

A Brief History of Disbelief
3-part TV series with acclaimed British polymath Jonathan Miller — a highly intelligent and rational journey through the highly divisive topic that originally aired on the BBC and aired in the US on PBS stations

BUDDHISM FOR BUSY PEOPLE: Finding Happiness in an Uncertain World
a bestseller in Australia, launched in the US summer 2008, it's a uniquely accessible professional development and personal growth book, memoir, and Buddhist primer in one meant for those of us living high-intensity, high-stress lifestyles; from David Michie, corporate communications consultant, novelist, longtime meditator (Snow Lion Publications)

Byron Katie
hailed by Time magazine as "a visionary for the new millennium," Katie's recent book, A Thousand Names for Joy, connects the wisdom of the Tao Te Ching with her own method of self-inquiry, The Work, and is a portrait of the awakened mind in action

COMING CLEAN: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal
an engaging, hopeful citizen activism guide to solving the climate and energy crises from Michael Brune, the executive director of Rainforest Action Network (Sierra Club Books)

DEADLY SPIN: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
Former CIGNA head of communications Wendell Potter's book is not only an exposé of health insurers but a stark warning that corporate spin is distorting our democracy (Bloomsbury Press)

Inner Splendor Media
"Music for Deep Meditation" series of three recordings especially engineered with authenticity to still and nourish the mind

Knocking
Anderson Cooper (CNN) called this award-winning 2007 PBS Independent Lens documentary "riveting and illuminating"; it explores the often-misunderstood world of Jehovah's Witnesses, putting religious fundamentalism and the Culture War in a new light.

My Reincarnation
An epic father-son drama, spanning two decades and three generations, about spirituality, cultural survival, identity, family, growing old, growing up, faith, meditation, Buddhism — and past and future lives. The film follows the renowned reincarnate Tibetan spiritual master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu and his Italian born son, Yeshi, who strains against the weight of being recognized as the reincarnation of his father's uncle.

The Mystery of Love
2006 PBS documentary that put love on the public agenda — from the producers of Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers

A PUBLIC BETRAYED: An Inside Look at Japanese Media Atrocities and Their Warnings to the West
authors Adam Gamble and eminent Japanese media scholar Takesato Watanabe find disturbing parallels between the US media and Japan's corrupt, biased, and sensational media culture (Regnery Publishing)

You Don't Have to Be Buddhist to Know Nothing
collection of thoughts and quotations on the concept from Joan Konner, longtime Bill Moyers producer and former dean of Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (Prometheus Books)