Category: sustainability
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Virtual Event Program | GreenBiz
Virtual Event Program | GreenBiz:
BIG VERGE conference starts today.
Put on by Green Biz.
Virtual if you want to have a baby footprint on a great meeting. The travel time is a little less than going to San Francisco (although you will miss the foods and sounds and local color).
This is a really interesting mix… Including some big companies and some disrupters.
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Building a Business Plan: The basic components video, and IP too.
Building a Business Plan: The basic components – YouTube: “
Here’s the basics about a business plan by yours truly, Dr. Elmer Hall, President of
Strategic Business Planning Company. We help develop the plans that every business needs(tm).
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A business plan helps to plan out the future of the business and estimate its profitability. Also, as the company grows quickly it may outgrow itself. That is, you can fund the growth with profits, but if you exceed that rate then outside funding will be needed. Look at the sustainable growth rate model in finance.This is the basics of a business plan, but we modify a basic business plan to accommodate Intellectual Property protection (read, sustainable competitive advantage). As you watch Shark Tank to see how venture capitalist think, you will see how seriously important intellectual property is to the success of a business — and the likelihood of a shark investor taking a BIG bite of the action.
A business plan would likely include these component, as shown in the video, and then have some modification to show the (potential) strength of the IP. We call this IP-centric plan a Patent Business Plan., or for larger companies an IPplan.
Look at the Patent Primer to get an idea of the various aspects of IP and how to build a strong patent competitive advantage.
- Patent Guide 2.0 & Patent Primer 2.0: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/SBPlan
- (Primer 2.0 Kindle eBook: www.tinyurl.com/IPPrimer2e)
As it pertains to environmental sustainability — triple bottom-line planning — look at discussions over at www.SustainZine.com. The plan here would be a specialized business plan we call a Sustainability Plan. This would be a business plan that also maps out moving to full zero foot print over time: say 5, 10, 20 years, depending on the business/industry.
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Efforts Grow to Take the Sting Out of the Bee Die-Off – WSJ
Efforts Grow to Take the Sting Out of the Bee Die-Off – WSJ:
Generally, the topics discussed here aim to look at the sustainability of trends or activities. CCD is worrisome on many levels of sustainability.
This is an interesting update on the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) of bee hives world wide.
Look at the ugly research related to the mix of pesticides and fungicides that seem to cause the demise of bee hives. (See prior SustainZine blog on this.)
It is interesting that the consumer seems largely unaware of this very, very serious problem. To mix he metaphors, bees are the canary in the coal mine of world agriculture. Those things that will kill the bees, may also kill the rest of us over time… assuming that the demise of the world’s pollinators does not wipe out the food supply first.
There are so very many issues related to mono-cultures. That is the miles and miles of a single crop. Without diversity, massive amounts of pesticides, fertilizers, fungicides, etc. are needed. When something does get through the defense barrier they can get out of control quickly. The weevil in the cotton, the greening in the oranges, the pollinators in the almonds. Amphibians like frogs are interesting to watch, they can be totally wiped out based on what is happening with the water, with the land, or both. The death of the piglet litters?
Golf courses and row crops are a biological wasteland. It takes a lot to keep one croup growing in an area, and all the others out.