Climate change, human rights, fair trade, good governance, peace, food security and access to health care and education are all part of a complex progressive global agenda. This agenda is lead by civil society organizations. Communicating the complexity of this agenda into digestible bits in the "era of the snack culture" is an enormous challenge.

Today, our culture rotates on shorter, faster, sleeker and smaller. The design and functionality of products and even of stories is receptive to the degree in which it can be condensed.

In a recent issue of Wired Magazine, the term "snack culture" was featured in an article which traced its evolution right from cave paintings, to the Readers Digest, to cliffnotes, the sony walkman, mp3s, the ipod nano to the one second film.

But does the landscape of the quick information bite necessarily impede the impact of social progressive agendas? Our snack culture may in fact pose an opportunity for civil society organizations to reach for clarity of purpose in their public engagement initiatives, to produce creative communications and to reach beyond policy change and begin to embed a new improved vision of the world into the very fiber of our culture.

Can we popularize the eradication of poverty, inequality and environmental degradation? Can we create massive social movements that embrace culture as much as substantive policy change?