About

 

Brian Webster is the the Founder, and Project Manager of the practice.

He is an organizer, project manager and creative ideas professional, based in San Francisco. His personal DBA firm is Brian Webster and Associates.

Brian is the founder and general manager of Better World Associates a small agency focused on connecting world class professionals and clients to build a better world.

Brian has over 35 years of hands on experience working with business, organized labor, government, community groups and campaigns. As a result, he knows a lot of very interesting and very important people.

More importantly, he has year after year current experience with constantly changing markets, environments and technologies - while successfully accomplishing goals and getting things done.

Brian has a long career as a sales and marketing professional presenting new ideas and managing sales to clients such as; AT&T, Kaiser Permanente, the San Francisco Giants, the Golden State Warriors, the California Lottery, Microsoft, Adobe and Bank of America.

Originally from New York, Brian's world view is based on Buckminster Fuller's philosophy of using personal commitment and design science for problem solving and the sustainable success of humanity.

Brian has specialized knowledge in many areas, but his super power is his generalist knowledge, experience, and curiosity. Buckminster Fuller decried specialization as the enemy of synergy and proposed a reframing of culture that could "get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction." At its epicenter he placed the value of wide curiosity and generalist knowledge.

"I am interested in everything that is interesting" - Steve Wozniak

Brian is constantly orgainizing, marketing and managing projects focused on building a better world. Contact him to see if he can help avdance your projects and goals.

 

A background of ideas, inovation, and strategic service.

Brian is an entrepreneur, social political activist, and salesman by nature. At age 12, in 1968, he was a volunteer for the Eugene McCarthy for President campaign. Responding to an ad on the back of a comic book, he sold greeting cards door to door in his neighborhood. As a teenager he was a Fuller Brush salesman in the garment district of New York City.

Trained in nonviolent civil disobedience, Brian was one of 2,000 Clamshell Alliance activists organized in "affinity groups" that occupied the Seabrook, N.H. nuclear power plant in 1977. He has personally organized, trained and deployed hundreds of "Safety Monitors" for security duties at "Peace Jobs and Justice" marches and rallies of 75,000 to 150,000 people.

Brian is a big believer in the power of music, technology and culture to advance peace and human rights. Active in the anti-apartheid movement, he was a leading organizer of Rock Against Racism USA. During the US Soviet citizen diplomacy movement, he co-produced the Soviet American Peace Walk Concert in Golden Gate Park. In 1994 he worked with the Unity Foundation to organize a live two-way television "Space Bridge" between artist festivals in Sarajevo and San Francisco. This was part of an "Interactive Plaza" series of videoconferences focused on citizens peace building initiatives to the city of Sarajevo, which was then under the siege of war. In 1995 he co-produced an International Culture and Technology Festival for the 50th of the United Nations in San Francisco.

For many years he co-produced a nationwide live radio Earth Day Auction of guitars autographed by the world's most well-known rock artists. Brian used to work for Bill Graham as the greeter at the historic Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. He was a volunteer with the Rock Medicine Unit of the Haight Asbury Free Clinic for 5 years.

Brian is an advocate for the idea of "concert-rallies" and produced a report on the U.S. concert industry and concert-rally opportunities for the Dean for America campaign in 2004. That same year, working with Music for America, he arranged for voter registration and information tables to be set up at over 50 nightclub shows in ten states during the Super Tuesday Democratic primaries.

He was a founding member of Business Partnership for Peace, Business for Social Responsibility, and the Impact Hub in San Francisco.

Brian is an early pioneer in the Internet Advertising Industry and of Internet industry community organizing. He was the Corporate Relations Manager for the Association of Internet Professionals. During the Internet boom days in San Francisco from 1997 to 2001, he organized the monthly SF Web Business Mixer. He produced 415TECH a large regional IT networking event from 1999 to 2001 and published the San Francisco's Dot Com Directory in August of 2000. In 1996 he came up with the idea and sold the first "beyond the banner" Internet advertising campaign to Microsoft's ad agency Anderson & Lembke for the Launch of Office 97.

Based on a remark by Bill Clinton in a 1992 interview, that Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank, "should be given a Nobel Prize", Brian took that idea, advanced it, and did the original work for the nomination process and team that made it happen. Brian aranged for Charlie Rose to interveiw professor Yunus for a full hour in 2004. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank in 2006.

Today Muhammad Yunus runs Yunus Social Business in Bangladesh, advancing the emerging new economic system of Social Business and his vision of 'A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions'.

Brian's Better World Associates, agency focused social business development. He has created outlines for two social business enterprises, Better World Transportation and Farm Workworker Farms.

Brian is always identifying key strategic emerging markets that have great potential for humanities sustainable development and doing what he can to advance them.

Better World Advisors has a special focus on Climate Restoration BWA-CR, as communicated in the book Climate Restoration by Peter Fiekowsky and the Foundation for Climate Restoration. BWA is working to advance climate restoration through public awareness, political will, and a global/local climate restoration economy. Scientists have developed and demonstrated effective ways to remove CO2 and methane from the atmosphere, permanently on a massive scale, based on natural systems, and in a way that can be market financed. Climate restoration offers a bold, scientifically grounded strategy that is both practical and immediately implementable to restore Earth's climate to a pre-industrial level by 2050.

Private space-based businesses are now worth billions of dollars. Space X, Blue Origin, and San Francisco's Planet Labs are perhaps the best-known examples. While low earth orbit space tourism is in its infancy, Brian has developed a Space Tourism Agency outline, for when the market is ready. Brian is an official Lifetime Crew Member (#770) of Gateway Spaceport, the only space enterprise with plans to build a rotating space station that utilizes artificial gravity (Earth, Lunar & Mars levels) for the health and comfort of its passengers and crew, while also having other areas that allow them to feel the weightlessness of space.

For 30 years Brian has been active in the global movement to "make poverty history". As a marathon runner in the mid-80s he got involved with World Runners. In May of 1986 he ran in Sport Aid, with 20 million runners in 274 cities, wich raised $100 million for famine relief in Africa. That experience inspired his idea for Human Race Day, a social business focused achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

Brian is an active global partner in RESULTS and the ONE Campaign working on creating global political will to end extreme poverty. He worked on UNICEF's ten-year campaign to achieve the goals of the 1990 UN World Summit for Children. That campaign was the origin of the Millennium Development Goals campaign. From 2006 to 2010 Brian organized annual Stand Up events for the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in San Francisco.

In 2009, 173 million citizens gathered at 3,000 events in 120 countries standing up and demanding that their governments eradicate extreme poverty and achieve the MDGs. That Stand Up holds the Guinness World Record as the largest mobilization of human beings in history for a humanitarian cause. Brian is a strong advocate for the idea that global communications are exponentially increasing the ability for transnational citizens campaigns to achieve unprecedented results for humanitarian goals.

Brian is a firm believer in the power of business and organized labor to build a better world. For ten years he organized the National Labor-Community Awards at the largest hotel banquet rooms in San Francisco. He originated the idea and produced Green Labor-Capital Forums, focused on using public employee & union pension funds to support green jobs and sustainable infrastructure.

Brian is an active advocate for affordable housing solutions. He is proud to have provided strategic services to the Mission Housing Development Corporation to develop their 1950 Mission Street green affordable housing project.

Brian supports Public Banking in California, a Municipal Bank for San Francisco, the CalAccount Community Coalition, the San Francisco Public Bank Coalition and basic financial services essential for all.

Brian has a personal passion for criminal justice reform. He is a graduate of the Delancey Street Foundation. He received his basic business vocational training at their School of Marketing. He was their top salesperson at the time.

Brian is a "clean and sober" person that works for drug policy reform and the end of cannabis and hemp prohibition. For several years he was a United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) labor organizer in the cannabis industry and Chief of Staff to the Director of UFCW's national cannabis workers organizing campaign.

He now has a specialized consultancy for the emerging California industrial hemp industry and has produced hemp industry workshops, forums, expos and conferences throughout the state.

For the past several year Brian has been a project manager for Chabad SF producing Chanukah in Union Square and developing the Mensch Hall of Fame Awards for the Bill Graham Menorah Project.

Brian is constantly orgainizing, marketing and managing projects focused on building a better world. Contact BWA to see if we can help avdance your projects and goals.