Our guest blogger is Bob Gough, who among many titles, is the attorney for the Intertribal Council On Utility Policy, which works on energy solutions including developing wind farms and straw bale housing construction on Indian reservations. Bob hosted Hal on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation several years back, and I finally met Bob when he…
The UnTours Foundation promotes smart, green, and generous businesses including B Corporations, which use Gandhi’s line: Be the Change. Here’s a song by the same title for your listening and viewing pleasure! Send us your photos that answer the question posed in the video! We’ll post them on our Facebook page. “I’ve always thought people…
Photo by Tom Coppen cc On the eve of World Water Day in March, the UN announced that there are more cell phones on this planet than toilets. Over one third of the world’s people have no toilets. Many of those who do, live where their sanitation “systems” go directly into rivers and oceans. When…
We keep our UnTours Foundation board members busy in an effort to keep them out of trouble! Victor Mallet and Bill Wiedmann are working hard on our behalf selling pickles. The Philadelphia Inquirer found this all quite interesting. Read all about it! And watch a video (after a short ad) that includes a song about…
When I met Norma Taussig 17 years ago, we bonded over Women Who Run With the Wolves, a powerful book about the female psyche written by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. That connection led to the title of a poem I wrote for Norma’s 75th birthday. And here we are, about to celebrate Norma’s 90th birthday on…
One of our UnTours Foundation loan recipients, Tosheka Designs, is hoping to raise funds this month through Kickstarter, a website that has helped raise over $500 million for 40,000 projects. Kickstarter accepts – or not – your request to fund your art, technology, or perhaps social justice project. It then posts the request for all…
April 22nd, the actual 20th anniversary of the UnTours Foundation, was another great day at the office. How perfect for the foundation and Hal that the anniversary was also Earth Day. My day began with a call from the SosteNica staff singing “Happy Birthday, UnTours Foundation” to me. And I get paid for this!! Then,…
Today, as much of the world celebrates Earth Day, we here in Media, PA, are also celebrating the 20th anniversary of the UnTours Foundation. Hooray! As you may know, the UnTours Foundation was founded by Hal & Norma Taussig, with the goal of creating “change, not charity.” They took the after-tax profits of UnTours and…
As we approach the 20th anniversary of the feisty UnTours Foundation, we have more anniversary gifts to showcase. These gifts arrived in response to our question: If the UnTours Foundation was your best friend, what would you give it for its 20th anniversary (this Monday, April 22nd)? ► Tell us here ◄ Money, of course!Cheers…
Photo by Doug Wertman cc Here is a question we posed to you along with some of your answers. If the UnTours Foundation was your best friend, what would you give it for its 20th anniversary (this April 22nd)? ► Tell us here ◄ The world’s most comfortable shoes, lightest and best binoculars, apps for…