TGIF and that I'm back at my desk! Last Friday I was at BlogHer's "World of Difference" conference on the Navy Pier. Four days later, I hit OC in time to drive to Vegas for a Sustainable Furniture Show. Talk about a world of difference. 
I have about 150 business cards and 1000 ideas to unpack on how to join these two worlds together (the Sustainable part, not Vegas)
The common denominator is the World of Difference theme. At BlogHer I met so many interesting, opininated women - diversity was expected not challenged. The more diverse (or niched) their blog, the more often they found an audience of people just like them. I loved the new cards. Often I was handed both a "biz" card and a personality card. The first revealed their role in work and the second their role in the world. Liz Henry's was one of those people. I know I have her little purple headed card around here somewhere. It didn't make it into the shot above that I took at the airport.
At the Sustainable Furniture Show I saw diversity at work again in design and options and ways of thinking that can help combat Climate Change. I was there as part of Channel Logic's crew who put on the show. Like in any big shift of thinking, it's the smaller companies who are moving the fastest and offer the freshest ideas. 
Henri Philippe is an example of this new movement. His beach-flavored furniture is made of recycled lumber from old Brazilian homes and barns. The rainbowed colors are reformed and made into patio or sand or garden furniture that quietly say, "Beer me." He smartly made a "bar" part of his booth, offering coffee in the morning and cocktails in the afternoon (my kind of guy).
Henri is a colorful as his furniture. He's an expat from France, who now lives in Brazil and also grows boutique organic, free trade coffee that he hires locals to harvest and hand roast. (had to take a bag of that home) Next time you need coffee to start your day or a chair to end it in, consider buying something from Henri that is Sustainable and comes with a samba inside.
It's exciting to be a part of both worlds and SO refreshing to have individual expression taking a front seat again. I'll have many more of my opinions later after I collect my thoughts.
It was great putting faces on all the people I've emailed or talked to in the last 6 months. Virtual is good, but nothing beats a face-to-face.
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