The WorldBlu Blog

Brian Johnson was the Founder and CEO of Zaadz, a WorldBlu List 2007 awardee and the first website in the world committed to creating a community around conscious capitalism. Last summer, Zaadz was sold to Gaiam and its’ name changed from Zaadz to Gaia Community. Brian then went on to start Philosophers Notes.
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“Inside the WorldBlu List” is a regular series on my blog that takes you inside the companies that made the WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces 2007 to learn more about just how they run their companies democratically.
Recently, I interviewed Brian Scudamore, founder and CEO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK? and also a WorldBlu List 2007 awardee. 1-800-GOT-JUNK? […]

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This past spring, Zingerman’s was named one of the WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces awardees. Founded in 1982 in Ann Arbor, Michigan by Ari Weinzweig and Paul Saginaw with just two staff members and 24 seats, Zingerman’s has now grown from a small delicatessen into a community of businesses with revenues of over […]

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One of the companies on the WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces 2007 is Continuum, a Boston-based innovation and design consultancy. This past spring they were featured in an article entitled, “Democratic Principles Making Business More Transparent,” which appeared in the Christian Science Monitor.
Last Thursday and Friday, November 1-2, we had our first WorldBlu […]

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I first heard about Zaadz through Jeff Klein, executive director of FLOW, an organization committed to “conscious capitalism.” Since Zaadz was also dedicated to the idea of conscious capitalism I was intrigued to see if they might also operate democratically (since the two concepts are closely linked). They decided to […]

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