Saving Nemo and his friends

Too busy to write a new full blog post, but I've gone into the archives and found an important issue that does not get enough consideration and so bears repeating. The plight of aquarium fish.

This is an article I wrote for April/May 2007 issue of Satya Magazine. Satya is sadly no longer with us but the articles live on online.  Enjoy!

Saving Nemo

Are Foundations Creating Barriers to Positive Change?

This is a great article from TruthOut about why the environmental movement is failing (their words not mine - I'd say falling short but not "failing").  The key focus of the article is aimed encouraging grant makers and funders to re-think how they give and and how they measure success. While the article focuses on the environmental movement, I think many points translate to animal protection movement as well. 


Here is excerpt. "In his important monograph Just Another Emperor: The Myths and Realities of Philanthrocapitalism, former Ford Foundation director Michael Edwards cautions that one of the downsides of increasingly infusing the nonprofit world with business ideals is that social change organizations are expected to churn out good, quarterly metrics. Extreme advocates of these ideas expect social change organizations to report mounds of data and compete with one another for funding based on "numbers" and "deliverables." 


Read more here

Another exciting new project: Parrots in Costa Rica

The Kerulos Center has announced the launch of Aves Sagradas (sacred birds) a sanctuary and education center in Costa Rica!  I am thrilled to be a part of this exciting project. 


The facility will provide sanctuary and rehabilitation to parrots in Costa Rica confiscated from the pet trade and will also be a source for education and collaboration to create a future in which parrots are valued as sentient beings not as commodities.