Making things ten times cheaper
Something to ponder for the social sector (thanks to Clay Shirky): "Dr. Amy Smith is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where she runs the Development…
Today’s Social Enterprise Ideas
Ideas for this week. Check out Fast Company's list of the 5 Social Capitalists for 2010 and their businesses. From a number of sources I am getting the message that…
Nurturing social entrepreneurs & enterprises
I've just finished a year long Salon for Social Entrepreneurs, in conjunction with Cheryl Kernot from the Centre for Social Impact, Julian Noel from Aware Business and an amazing group…
Do we really need abundance?
A good take on the abundance vs sufficiency dilemma from writer and personal life coach Bruce Elkin here. I agree with a lot of his sentiments and am working to…
Vote 1 Earth
I must be one of the many people who haven't yet met Todd Sampson via the Gruen Transfer, but as of next week I will be an avid viewer. Tonight…
Wisps of Ideas
One summer's day at Chinamans beach, I watched amazed as tiny wisps of nearly nothing swirled together to become a significant cloud. I'd never noticed a cloud appear from nothing…
Spring and passion is in the air
It's spring, it's passion month and I've just returned from the XL Entrepreneur Business School in Bali. What did I learn - lots! First, you cannot achieve anything amazing on…