Perpetual Innovation

Author: SustainMe

Sustainable MBA program(s) and a passion for making a difference

Bainbridge Graduate Institute offers Sustainability MBA programs. They claim to be the first. They have several certificate programs and several concentrations. Pretty cool.
BGI is Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) accredited.

Watch this great news show “Behind the Scenes” with Jane Pauley …August 5th, 2011

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/44158440#44158440

Associated text/article: http://www.bgi.edu/voice-of-bgi/filming-your-life-calling/
Actual edu: http://www.bgi.edu/

Course list: http://www.bgi.edu/academics/mbas/course-list/

Always, (almost always) a good source of info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bainbridge_Graduate_Institute

19 August 2011
Ft. Lauderdale Tops List Of Most Dangerous Cities To Drive

Ft. Lauderdale Tops List Of Most Dangerous Cities To Drive

We in Ft. Lauderdale and Orlando win the dubious honor of being the worst for traffic (traffic fatality statistics).

Ouch.

Seems like telecommuting might be a more sustainable way to live…

(Sorry about the pun!:)

12 August 2011
New program at USF examines water bottle usage

New program at USF examines water bottle usage (2.44 min video)

This is a cool/excellent program at USF related to eliminating the water bottles use on campus.

Note the refill stations being used throughout campus.

We all need to get way from the bottled water.

13B plastic bottles per year now. That’s a 10 fold increase from 10 years ago.!:-(

Environmental literate.

12 August 2011
Earth’s Net Energy Change/monitoring… Little analysis of earth’s energy.

Trenberth on Tracking Earth’s energy: A key to climate variability and change

This is a serious analysis of the energy flows of the earth systems. You simply look at energy as a budget (but hopefully not with the same budget processes as many of the countries use like the PIIGS and the USA).

You have so much energy coming in. That energy is reflected and absorbed into the earth systems (oceans mainly).

The problem is that we are missing 60 * 10^20 Jules/year (or 6 * 10^22 J/y). Apparently Trenberth is in publication of an analysis of his explanation of this “residual”, aka missing energy. We may not like where we find this missing link to our (in)balanced energy budget.

?Deep ocean?

Humm…

15 July 2011
Over-innovation-makes-us-firms-suck-at-sustainability

Interesting article. Three BIG reasons why we in the USoA companies are not being sustainable with our Over-Innovation ways.

I think the short-term focus is a Big one. Focus on the immediate sell of the immediate product is probably the underlying problem more than any other.
Article: over-innovation-makes-us-firms-suck-at-sustainability

14 July 2011