WiserEarth (World Index of Social and Environmental Responsibility) was a Featured Project at the 2nd NetSquared Conference (N2Y2).

They have recently opened up membership to their directory and networking platform to include, "business or government that are creating lasting change in the environmental and social justice fields."

Below is a transcript of a podcast interview conducted this summer with Peggy Duvette, the Director of WiserEarth. WiserEarth was one of the 21 Featured Projects at the 2nd NetSquared Conference. You can hear the audio recording of the interview on the NetSquared Podcast and hear WiserEarth's 5-minute pitch at the Conference here.

Peggy Duvette: Hello! My name is Peggy Duvette and I've been the Director of the WiserEarth Project for the last two years. We are based in Sausalito, California. I'm thrilled to be here today with you, Britt, and the whole NetSquared community.

WiserEarth is a website that helps people and organizations working towards sustainability and social justice to locate each other, share resources and build alliances. And just like Wikipedia, it's a community-based platform where all the content related to environmental and social justice is traded and updated by the community.

You can quickly and easily see who is working on what and where. So for example, if you are a funder, and you're trying to identify organizations working on specific issue areas, like human rights, and you want to learn about that work, you would do your research on WiserEarth and then you could connect with them directly. WiserEarth is really trying to allow people to connect and collaborate, especially when they're doing similar work.

Another thing to note is that whether you're a small organization or a large one, on WiserEarth, we are all on a level playing field. Everyone has the same visibility and a place to share their work and request what they need.

Britt Bravo: Where did the idea for WiserEarth come from?

Last week, WiserEarth, a N2Y2 Featured Project, posted on their blog that they will be rolling out a new feature:

In this videoblog,Peggy Duvette and Melinda Kramer see a much more effective, progressive movement when the wide array of organizations can work on the web like the spokes of a giant, multicolored umbrella.

Did you know that 59,000 people on LinkedIn say that they work in the nonprofit industry and that the nonprofit sector has the highest percentage of public answers in LinkedIn's Answers section? I didn't. I also didn't know that if you activate your public profile you can create a public page like this: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brittbravo that makes it easy for people to find you online when they are searching for things related to your work and interests.