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Drink For A Difference!

Web Media — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:53:37 +0000

Drink For A Difference @ The Milwaukee Ale House this Wednesday!

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Enjoy 1/2 price pints of fresh craft brew at Milwaukee’s favorite watering hole and drink for a difference!

Bring hats, gloves & winter garments to donate at the event for Big Brothers & Big Sister’s of Metro Milwaukee.

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Greener Jobs

Web Media — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:59:34 +0000

Join Greener Jobs on Linkedin

When I first thought of Greener Milwaukee, I was living in New York City. You would think I wasn’t, but alas I was… and, I missed my home state. So after many 5am subway rides back from Manhattan after a day of work and a night of carousing, I decided i wanted to ride my bike and help bring Milwaukee what it so desperately needed. A re-branding and revitalized community spirit…

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So after a few months of re-aclimating to beer, brats, and ball games I said, “Enough – this city needs another cause!”

And Greener Milwaukee was born.

It’s been a shoe-string struggle using social media as the main lure of gravity, however after some initial interest and a snowballed birth -Greener Milwaukee has grown to the next level of community assistance. Jobs.

This week (today really) marks the first push to get Greener Jobs out into the world and for the benefit of all. As iHeart is founded on the principals of “people, planet, and profit” “Greener Jobs” seems like a natural next step for the nearly 350 member strong, “Greener Milwaukee.”

I’ll keep it local to start and want it to organic in scope. That means we’re going to start simple, and start here. In Milwaukee.

Please sign up for Greener Jobs on Linkedin and/or Facebook to get started, there is plenty more a’growing and a’coming soon.

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Heart,

Ryan

iHeart Projects

Web Media — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:31:21 +0000

I added a “Projects” section to the site. Feel free to check it out from time to time to se what we are working on. Thanks!

iHeart MKE

Web Media — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:45:27 +0000

iHeart Company, LLC has been working on a variety of projects of late. The three largest items of interests are:

Very Milwaukee indeed. The first two, both Greener Milwaukee & Our Milwaukee go hand in hand as my friend Teresa Kopec of Radio Milwaukee vouched for me to Todd Leech of Beans & Barley (and many other things!) to give a presentation at a restaurant on how to “Green Your Business” I was delighted at first, but then received surprise news that brought me to Chicago that day. So in short order, Greener Milwaukee did not get to help out that day as originally planned.

I think the inclusion of iHeart into Our Milwaukee makes sense as I respect the businesses listed there and would hope that it would being a level of trust on a hyper local level. I do know most of the owners already, but it doesn’t hurt to show your support and take part in any community that you are in. Both organizations hold hundreds of members.

On that same note of locality, the iHeart MKE events have been more of a challange to get off the ground. I have used social media to push these events, yet as I recently moved two weeks ago & switched jobs last week haven’t had the time in vest into a proper campaign for these.

The campaign has lacked outside support and truthfully, I think once a week is too demanding and complex for this market to realize weekly iHeart events and their full potential under it’s current structure.

That would be my challenge to overcome… now if I could just find more time for the new Greener Milwaukee Blog.

Media Attention 1.0

Web Media — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:07:12 +0000

iWas going over some Earth Day events recently and saw that a prominent local website called, OnMilwaukee.com covered our first event! It mentions both iHeart Company, LLC and Greener Milwaukee – two organizatons i’m proud to present to you. See the link here and thanks to Julie Lawerence for bring our good causes to the people! Here is what she writes…

iHeart Company
Thursday, April 23, 7-9 p.m.
Director of Greener Milwaukee and President of iHeart Company, LLC Ryan Thompson hosts the first of many monthly meetups that will “give green activists, artist, growers, and businesses a place to meet socially outside of the educational and more formalized environment of a regular Greener Milwaukee Meetup.” The location is Café Luna Lounge, 106 W. Seeboth St.

See Article HERE

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Sunny Sunday

Web Media — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:33:16 +0000

iHeartCompany, LLC was founded in America’s Heartland as a social enterprise. The company operates unlike most corporate entities in that it has and will always operate ethically on three core principals commonly known as the triple bottom line.

The triple bottom line (”TBL“, “3BL“, or “people, planet, profit“) promotes an expanded spectrum of values and criteria for measuring organizational (and societal) success: economic, ecological and social. In other words, it does right by those values and iHeart brings them together with passion. iHeart promotes this love of company, people, business, earth, and all that is good on it.

In some ways, iHeart is an extension of the best part of my human spirit, my best ideas, thinking and everything iBelieve to be right and truthful in the universe.

While iMyself am not perfect by any means, iThink us humans can create something that lasts as an example and symbol far beyond any individual. iHeart Company is the pursuit of that perfection using a conscious system of sharing. May we open up our hearts and minds to improving everything we touch.

Heart,

Ryan

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