Shel Horowitz

Shel Horowitz
Born	(1956-12-24) December 24, 1956 New York City
Occupation	author, profitability and marketing consultant, speaker
Language	english
Nationality	USA
Ethnicity	Jewish
Citizenship	USA
Education	BA
Alma mater	Antioch College
Period	1977
Subject	green marketing, clean energy
Notable works	Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World, Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green
Notable awards	National Environmental Hall of Fame
Partner	D. Dina Friedman
Children	Alana Horowitz Friedman, Rafael Horowitz Friedman
Website
http://goingbeyondsustainability.com

Shel Horowitz is an American author, international speaker, and marketing consultant. He has been an early and consistent popularizer of the idea that businesses can succeed by embracing principles of honesty, integrity, and environmental responsibility. More recently, he has been an active proponent of the role of business in turning hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance while making a profit^[1]

Early life

Born in New York City on December 24, 1956, Horowitz was raised in the Bronx, New York where he graduated from Bronx High School of Science in 1973. While attending Antioch College the following year, he alternated studies with work in Washington, D.C. and Atlanta. He graduated from Antioch College 1977, and after finishing, lived in New York (principally [[Brooklyn]], Providence, and Philadelphia) before settling in the Northampton-Amherst, Massachusetts area in 1981.^[1]

Career

Marketing

The first of his books on marketing was published in 1985, and he has written several other award-winning books and hundreds of articles on marketing—particularly ethical marketing, marketing for green and social entrepreneurship companies, organizations involved in social change or promoting the environment, and frugal marketing. Stressing values-based, big-picture marketing that tends to be less expensive than traditional approaches, he develops marketing methods and materials based in such techniques as forming partnerships, attracting media publicity, and using social media effectively. His most recent book, co-authored with the late Jay Conrad Levinson, "Father of Guerrilla Marketing," is Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World, published in 2016 by Morgan James and including guest essays by Cynthia Kersey, Frances Moore Lappé, and Yanik Silver. Under the brand "The Transformpreneur," he addresses the intersections of marketing and social change/environmental improvement through speaking, writing, and consulting.

Horowitz has been marketing online since 1994, and using social media since 1995. He set up the first of about 16 websites in 1996.^[2]

Speaking

Horowitz has spoken to numerous environmental conferences, academic institutions, professional associations, and business gatherings, both in the United Stages and abroad. His many speaking credits include a TEDx talk on the theme of business profiting by creating a better world, Forum Davos in Switzerland, Bioneers-by-the-Bay, multiple Green America Green Festivals, Gulf Coast Green, Solarfest, Association for Business Communication International Conference, Sustainable Foods Summit, Public Relations Society of America, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Scaling Change, Noteworthy USA National Conference, regional gatherings of the American Marketing Association, National Association of Home Remodelers, and Publishers Marketing Association, Book Expo America, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, University of Vermont…

Media presence

He has been cited multiple times in such publications as the New York Times,^[3] Wall Street Journal,^[4] Entrepreneur,^[5] Christian Science Monitor,^[6] Los Angeles Times, and The Bottom Line.^[7] He has published his own articles in the Washington Post, In Business, Boston Globe, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, GreenBiz, and many other publications.

From 2010 to 2014, he wrote a syndicated monthly column, Green And Profitable. The column covered how to "go green" authentically^[8] and is featured internationally including the USA and Australia. The column has been published in Green Prospects Asia (Malaysia), World.edu (Australia) and the Daily Hampshire Gazette, in Northampton, Massachusetts. Following the discontinuance of the column, Horowitz anthologized many of the articles in his ninth book, Green And Profitable. He began regularly blogging in 2004, and his blog has been hosted at Green And Profitable since 2010.^[9]

In 2014, he created Business For a Better World, with the mission of showing how business can profit by transforming hunger and poverty into sufficiency, violence and war into peace, and catastrophic climate change/environmental degradation into planetary balance.^[10] He expanded his web presence in this area with two new websites that went live in 2015, "Going Beyond Sustainability"^[11] aimed at the corporate world, and, "Transformpreneur"^[12] for entrepreneurs.

All told, Horowitz has been quoted or cited in over 70 books.^[13]

Horowitz was the reporter for the UMass Family Business Center newsletter, Related Matters, for 14 years (1994-2008).

Environmental and social change involvement

Horowitz has been involved with numerous social and environmental movements and community betterment groups since the early 1970s, and helped to defeat a nuclear power plant proposed just north of New York City as far back as 1972.^[14]

His first book, published in 1980, demonstrated why solar and other clean energy technologies, and not nuclear, were the answer to the energy crisis. In 1999 he formed Save the Mountain,^[15] a successful mass movement that prevented the construction of a large and inappropriate housing development^[16] on the Mount Holyoke Range.^[17] In 2004, he launched the Business Ethics Pledge,^[18] an international campaign to prevent future Enron and Madoff scandals. In 2010, he organized the International Association of Green Marketers, a green marketing trade association,^[19] but let the project drop when too few people were interested.

Personal life

He is married to novelist D. Dina Friedman and is father of Alana and Rafael Horowitz Friedman. He lives in a solarized 1743 antique farmhouse in Hadley, Massachusetts.^[20]

Bibliography

1980s

• Nuclear Lessons: An Examination of Nuclear Power's Safety, Economic, and Political Record (Stackpole, 1980, with Richard Curtis and Elizabeth Hogan, republished in Japan by Kinokuniya. Horowitz wrote a new introduction in 2011 for a new release of the Japanese edition following the nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima, Japan.)
• Breathe! (editor). Anti-smoking anthology of poetry published by Warthog Press, 1980.
• Keep Your Money: How to Save Thousands in Advertising (Writing and More Press, 1985)

1990s

• Marketing Without Megabucks: How to Sell Anything on a Shoestring (Simon & Schuster, 1993, republished in Korea by The Economic Daily, 1995)
• The Penny-Pinching Hedonist: How to Live Like Royalty with a Peasant's Pocketbook (AWM, 1995)

2000s

• Grassroots Marketing: Getting Noticed in a Noisy World (Chelsea Green, 2000)
• Principled Profit: Marketing that Puts People First (AWM, 2003, republished by Panorama in Mexico, and under the title Ethics in Marketing, by Jaico Publishing House in India)
• Grassroots Marketing for Authors and Publishers (AWM/Infinity, 2007)
• Painless Green: 111 Tips to Help the Environment, Lower Your Carbon Footprint, Cut Your Budget, and Improve Your Quality of Life-With No Negative Impact on Your Lifestyle (ebook, 2009)

2010s

• Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green: Winning Strategies to Improve Your Profits and Your Planet (John Wiley & Sons, 2010, with Jay Conrad Levinson), republished in Italy (Francesco Brioschi Editore, 2011) and Turkey (BZD Yayin Ve Iletisim Hizmetleri, 2011), and in an audiobook version (Gildan Media)^[2]
• The Money Flow: How to Make Money Your Friend and Ally, Have a Great Life, and Improve the World (Morgan James, 2013, with Ana Weber)
• "Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World" (Morgan James, 2016, with Jay Conrad Levinson)

References

External links

• Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World, Morgan James
• Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green, Wiley
• Horowitz references at NYTimes.com