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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Greetings
all -- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>There is an
email making the rounds among various groups from Thinking Green Guide for
entrepreneurs, Thinking Bigger Business Media, Inc., based in Kansas City. They
are asking for submissions from writers on green business topics. They are not
paying writers anything so please beware – this is not a enterprise that incorporates
social justice into their business practices. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Here’s
the email. I left misspelled words in tact:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> I
came across your name as associated with the xxx in Oklahoma and wondered if
you might be able to help me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>I
am one of the editors working on the Thinking Green Guide for enterepreneurs.
It is the first annual publication that will be distributed in Kansas,
Missouir, Iowa, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. The goal of this publication is to
provide tips for greening small business at the same time grow small business
in the green sector. We have authors contributing from all over the country. We
are looking for someone to write a piece on what triple bottom line principles
entail and how they apply to entrepreneurs. Is there someone there that could
write this, or someone that is connected to you that could provide expertise on
this? The deadline we are looking at is at the end of April around the
22nd. The word count is 700-800 words. I've included our editorial guidelines
with this e-mail. If you could please get back to me by tomorrow morning, I
would appreciate it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>I emailed
them back and asked what they were paying writers. They are not paying writers.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>So here’s
how this works: You write the piece, you get a byline, they sell advertising to
the publication where your work is published, they keep the money, they profit
off your work. This is not sustainability or being green, this is just someone
seeing an opportunity to make some bucks off the “green movement”
at the expense of writers and volunteers. They are appealing to your ego,
betting that you’ll do anything for a byline and a head shot. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>So I
responded to them below and I would encourage people to think carefully about the
meaning of social justice before getting involved with a group like this. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Dear xxx – <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:blue'>As you probably know, a big part of the “Triple Bottom
Line,” going green, and sustainabilty is equity, fair wages and
treatment, social justice. This is also known as the three
“Ps” – People, Planet, Profits – or the three “Es”
– Ecology, Economics, Equity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Kudos on what you’re trying to do – however – if
you’re going to “walk the talk,” as a for-profit business
making money off advertising, paying writers who are generating content for
your guide (what will attract and engage your audience), is an equitable and
fair “thinking green” business practice. The assumption writers,
photographers or any other publication personnel should work free while others
profit from their work, is not only exploitive, it is an inherently unfair,
unjust and unsustainable practice. Someone could and should write an article
about this very subject for your publication but how ironic it would be to
write about this, not be paid for it, and then have the publishing business
make money off it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Given the above, and since Sustainable OKC supports and encourages
equity and social justice as part of our mission, we cannot pass this along. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Best wishes for future more equitable endeavors -- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Shauna<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='line-height:150%;
font-family:"Malgun Gothic","sans-serif";color:black'>::: shauna </span><span
style='line-height:150%;font-family:"Malgun Gothic","sans-serif";color:#913200'>lawyer</span><span
style='line-height:150%;font-family:"Malgun Gothic","sans-serif";color:black'>
struby</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";color:green'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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