Daniel Lubetzky

We are honored that BusinessWeek chose PeaceWorks among 25 of "America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs." If you like what we do, we’d appreciate you voting here for us – PeaceWorks Holdings – as the top 5 will be featured in the magazine. http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0403_social_entrepreneurs/19.htm Peaceworks Holdings peaceworks.com Daniel Lubetzky, 40 New York, N.Y. Can joint business [...]

In another sign that our society is going to have a reckoning if we don’t alter our diet and start eating healthier more wholesome foods, an alarming study shows that 20% of toddlers are obese. Study: One in five 4-year-olds is obese Obesity rates highest among American Indians, lowest among Asians (Foodbusinessnews.net, April 08, 2009) [...]

We are so humbled and honored that, following his meeting with our young Israeli and Palestinian leaders in OneVoice, and following his further learning on our movement over the last few months, including the leadership of our colleagues in OneVoice Europe, Paul McCartney agreed to join the OneVoice Movement’s International Honorary Board. Sample story follows…. [...]

Here is a link to the Opening Plenary at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship where I participated: http://www.socialedge.org/features/skoll-world-forum Click on Opening Plenary video Panel discussion starts around minute 36-ends around min 79. Entire plenary agenda below: Musical Performance – Taiko Meantime, An enthralling show combining traditional Japanese rythms and techniques with eclectic, original [...]

Seeing the sugar lobby take up the Corn Refiners Association is amusing. Each peddles empty calories in the form of sugar or high fructose corn syrup. HFCS should be appropriately avoided as it’s artificial construct and introduction in the early 80s correlates too closely to the rise of obesity and the diabetis epidemic. It is [...]

I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder at an interview about PeaceWorks.  This is HILARIOUS – I don’t understand it, but I love the part when they start poking fun at all our mistakes.  As well as when the guy shows up with the title "Non Style."  What is that?  Definitely lost in translation! Change-Maker [...]

Roger Martin, Dean at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto, gave an interesting presentation at the Opening Plenary at the Skoll World Forum today: Whether or not Barack Obama is your President or, as is the case for me, another country’s leader, most of you, I suspect, watched the President’s inauguration speech [...]

It’s rare, but once in a while you feel vindicated for the bad habit of keeping old newspapers around to catch up. This very good piece by Lee Siegel was worth it. It weaves economic, political and social theories to provide a 30,000 foot view of the sense and senselessness of unifying and decoding humankind’s [...]

Jon Stewart’s interview of Jim Cramer earlier tonight was a stunning indictment of the financial sector, the insider chicaneries of Wall Street, the complicity of financial networks like CNBC, and the overall sad state of affairs of corporate America.  See art. The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c Jim Cramer Interview [...]

Tom Friedman wrote a provocative article about how we have been living our lives and running our economy at the expense of the next generations – and how the environment and the planet will not bail us out. Peter Thum, the co-founder of Ethos Water (later sold to Starbucks) and I had a conversation a [...]