by Mark Ray | May 6, 2014
5 ways to get the American Dream Back The following is excerpted and adapted from Who Stole the American Dream? by Hedrick Smith. Over the past three decades, we have fallen from being the envy of the world, with the most affluent middle class of any place on Earth,...
by Mark Ray | Apr 25, 2014
There is no shortage of sadness and unease at the state of America today. What happened to our deeply imperfect, yet in many respects, more hopeful and less deeply divided country? While our past is littered with the story of a country flawed by slavery, poverty and...
by Mark Ray | Apr 21, 2014
The Sustain website is now LIVE. Pre-order some awesome, sustainable, Fair Trade condoms and spread the love ! We are excited to finally launch the site and will continue to share updates with you as we roll out at retail locations this...
by Mark Ray | Apr 18, 2014
Ok, as a man, this is a subject I only know a limited amount about. But what I do know is, it’s a damn shame that our culture has glorified the purchase of condoms by men and made women feel ashamed of doing the same thing. Men are assumed to have gotten lucky...
by Mark Ray | Apr 2, 2014
Running for the senate, Elizabeth Warren elegantly distilled her logic of why wealthy individuals and multinational corporations need to pay their fair share and give back to the country that has given them so much. “There is nobody in this country who got...
by Mark Ray | Mar 14, 2014
Being able to use contraception has had a significant impact on the quality of women’s lives, particularly by providing them with the economic autonomy to pursue goals, like becoming financially independent and obtaining a college degree. These insights were...
by Mark Ray | Mar 6, 2014
Associate Business Editor Caroline Fairchild in The Huffington Post recently made the argument that not only is a $12 minimum wage affordable, but it would actually help our economy. A report from non-partisan public policy center Demos looked into the effect...
by Mark Ray | Jan 2, 2014
Sustain’s systems-based approach to condoms looks at everything from where the tree’s latex is harvested from, the type of sex couples have when they use them, and of course how the condom is disposed of. Sustain condoms use latex derived from the worlds only Forest...
by Mark Ray | Dec 30, 2013
Depending on how I count, I’ve started either 3 or 4 businesses during my life; the difference between 3 and 4 lies with the window washing company I started at age 15. Westhampton Window Washing was a summer job, but unlike most of my friends, I decided to work for...
