It seems as if every other word used at the 2011 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting had something to do with the concept of “sustainability.”  Given the rate at which the human population is growing, finding innovative ways that would allow our society to endure (and to do so comfortably) is no small task.  However, there are many pieces to the sustainability puzzle, including that which is associated with food supply.  And this is exactly what Jo

So far my journey to the other side of the world is a total of 56 hours and still counting. While my 2 little boys are settling into their Saturday night slumber, I am sitting in a huge open patio type bar at 0830 on a Sunday morning. There are military men (and a few women) walking all around since this is a transient base hoping to leave in the next few days.  A cluster of guys are drinking beer (you can have maximum of 2 within a 20 hour timeframe) others are jogging, playing pool or horseshoes, socializing or trying to hook up to wifi.

Julianna Margulies, mom to son Kieran (now three years old),won an Emmy Award in the Best Actress in a Drama category for The Good Wife. This is Margulies' second Emmy Award, the actress walked away with a statue in 1995 for her work on ER.

For more than 60 years, Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF has served as a campaign for generations of American children providing them with an impactful way of raising money for a great cause, while having fun on Halloween. The campaign encourages kids and adults to host a Halloween fundraising party during the month of October or carry the orange collection box door-to-door on Halloween to raise money for UNICEF.

I have always strived to be a compassionate person -- to be someone who puts myself in someone else’s shoes. Since becoming a new mom, I’ve found that my compassion toward others has only deepened and this is especially true of my empathy for other moms. Below are four ways that being a new mom has made me a better person, a list that I’m sure will only grow over time.

I have a friend who’s worked for the same company for more than 20 years. He always tells me that the day he needs to find a new job, he’s coming to me first for advice. Why? because in that same time period, I’ve had ten different employers!

If you are anything like me, you are constantly running around – getting the kids ready for school, rushing off to work, coming home in just enough time to get kids fed (I’m pretty fortunate that my husband usually picks up the kids from daycare and cooks), help them with homework, get them in the shower, and finally in bed! That’s not even counting sport activities, school events, and other time-consuming activities!

Change begins as a seed of an idea. In the case of humanitarian and entrepreneur Devin Hibbard, it was a Ugandan bead. Walking through the streets of the capital city of Kampala, Hibbard came upon a woman rolling strips of paper into beads. She bought some beads and realized that every time she wore them, she would receive compliments. “Women liked the beads, but they loved the story of that woman trying to make a better life for herself and her family,” says Hibbard. “They wanted to buy beads to help support her and the other Ugandan women.”

One of our Most Powerful Moms in Finance and Banking, and often referred to as the most powerful woman on Wall Street, Sallie Krawcheck stepped down from her position running Bank of America's two wealth management units on September 6th -- a position she held since 2009. The company announced that her position was eliminated due to company streamlining. While Krawcheck was not fired, insiders speculate that she stepped down rather than accept a demotion.