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The world needs clean drinking water. It’s a human issue. We need clean water because our body’s are made mostly of water. It’s a problem that often gets pushed away from our consciousness. Access to clean water is a developed and developing country problem. Look at Hurricane Katrina if you need proof that water is a highly valued commodity when there is scarcity. Let’s see what the situation is and what’s being done.
Watch Time: 20 minutes
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I’ve been reading and stewing over the idea Mark Granovetter presented over 40 years ago. The idea/argument is that weak social ties play a more important role in building stronger social capital than your densely knit group of friends and family. So let’s dive in!
Read Time: 10 minutes
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An old joke about efficiency: An olive oil vendor returns from the marketplace and complains to a friend, “I can’t make money selling olive oil! I feed the donkey that carries my oil to the market, most of my profit is gone.” His friend suggests he feed the donkey a little less. Six weeks later they meet again at the marketplace. The oil seller is in poor shape, with neither money or donkey. When his friend asks what happened, the vendor replies, “Well, I did as you said. I fed him even less, and I did even better. But just at the point where I was becoming really successful, he died!”
-William McDonough & Michael Braungart
excerpt from Cradle to Cradle
This little joke/ antic illustrates a concept known in Ecological Economics as the “Maximum Sustainable Yield, often referred to in managing fisheries,” and is at the core of sustainable production.
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“In recent decades college education-like the computer-has gone from being a narrow-market good to a mass-market good. It can no longer be considered a luxury. This means that the distribution channels for college guidance needs to be redesigned. That is a challenge College Summit has taken up.”
- David Bornstein
excerpt from, How to Change the World
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The following is an excerpt from a class project, from back when I was studying Ecological Economics. I can’t remember if I wrote this or if it was a classmate, but it was relevant and share worthy.
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Earthsite has posted some of our presentations online at Slideshare. Most of them were developed for speaking arrangements by our company’s CEO, Joey Shepp, and were redesigned for reading on the web. Here are a few of our highest viewed presentations.
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I started experimenting with blogging back in 2006 with a blog called, “myGreenJourney.” The blog really was just was a way for me to practice blogging, but also to share some of the things I was learning as a student in sustainable enterprise. I have more or less left that blog and am now here.
I look forward to using this blog to create somewhat of an archive of stories, resources, and ideas that are important to me and that I think are worthy of sharing. I would really like to see conversations grow in my comments, so even if you have something short to say, please feel free to share.
My name is Ryan, and I am a recent graduate of the GreenMBA program at Dominican University of California. The MBA was a unique learning experience that focus on building sustainable enterprises with a focus on entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, and consulting. My undergraduate degree is in sociology and now I am blending the two areas of focus as a social media manager for a company called Earthsite, also started by graduates from the MBA program.
I work on a lot of different projects, and I absolutely love what I do!
Enjoy!
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