Global X interviews John Marks, President of Search for Common Ground, and Susan Collin Marks, Senior Vice President.John Marks founded Search for Common Ground in 1982 to “transform the way the world deals with conflict - away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem solving.”
As can be seen on this X-Interview, John and Susan are not only partners in social change but also in their personal lives. They are co-preneurs who "share love, vision and passion."
John Marks mentions a typical error made by social entrepreneurs as they launch their social venture: they think they know where they are going, when the process is in fact similar to Napoleon's motto: "On s'engage et puis on voit." ("Let's start, and we will see where this is taking us.")
Susan Collin Marks adds: "Let's build a better world with congruence, with integrity. Let's be clear that we come from a place of compassion, and that we are here to heal divisions, not to create more."
She concludes this first interview: "People don't respect us for agreeing with them. They respect us for being true to ourselves." ]]>
In this second X-Interview (the first one is here), John Marks, President of Search for Common Ground, and Susan Collin Marks, Senior Vice President, share stories.
Mathis Wackernagel and Susan Burns launched the Global Footprint Network in 2003 because "human beings are using more resources than the Earth can provide, and we are in global ecological overshoot." This husband-wife team developed the Ecological Footprint, a resource accounting tool that measures how much nature can produce in our country and how much we use of it.
Martin von Hildebrand, the director of Fundación Gaia Amazonas, describes himself as a dreamer.
Bill Strickland, a three-time Harvard Business School case study and a MacArthur Genius Award winner, founded the Manchester Bidwell Corporation 40 years ago and changed the lives of thousands of disadvantaged urban teens and welfare mothers with his world-class arts centers and career training centers. 
John Wood, founder of Room To Read, is convinced that changing the world starts with educating children: "I strongly believe in education. It has made me who I am today, and most likely who you are."
While attending the 2009 Skoll World Forum at Oxford, Global X interviewed Gillian Caldwell, campaign director of 1Sky, which tries to "shift federal policy in the United States towards the prosperity of a sustainable, low-carbon economy."
At the 2009 Skoll World Forum, Global X interviewed Jordan Kassalow, the founder of VisionSpring. The social enterprise formerly known as Scojo Foundation helps women create businesses to sell eye glasses to those at the bottom of the pyramid who need them the most.
Nina Smith, Executive Director of the RugMark Foundation in the US, works against child labor in the carpet industry by educating consumers (and businesses) on the problem of child labor --which currently impacts over 300,000 children in India, Nepal and Pakistan alone.
Sakena Yacoobi (see her picture with Muhammad Yunus) received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship for her work with women and children in Afghanistan. In this short interview, she tells Global X how fundamental an impact education is having on women.