While you are are staying up late, thinking about saving time and saving money… Give a look at the past blog post here on EE and DST and California’s discussion about Daylight Savings Time. This is the heart of sustainability: things that we can do right here, right now, to move toward more sustainability. Some of them might be only small changes, like adjusting the clock to start earlier in the day, when sun gets up…
Chris McKnett: The investment logic for sustainability | Talk Video | TED: Chris McKnett gives a wonderful talk on investing and the idea that all investors should start looking at ESG (economic, social and governance). The economic is obvious, profits. Social is the impact to people in general, and governance is corporate social responsibility (CSR). Generally the research shows that there is no downside to being socially (and environmentally) sustainable. But in the long term,…
Florida Business Incubation Association: Business incubators are so very cool. Generally they bring together all the components a business will need to get started or to expand. This usually includes funding sources. But as important are the key services that every organization needs. Business advice (often tied in to the SBA’s Small Business Development Centers — SBDC)… Accounting, IT, Intellectual Property protection (patents, TM, C,…), secretarial services, etc. Lots of marking help are critical, web…
Here’s and interesting little video — sales pitch really — related to growing your own food. Of course you need to buy the book to really get started. I really don’t like the high-level hyperbole, but the underlying concepts are probably okay. Crisis Education, however, implies how dooms-day and shrill it sounds. I like the idea of concentrated farming, urban farming, and in-side (making your house greener) grow. Kinda makes you wander if they aren’t…
Top 10 Crowdfunding Sites For Fundraising – Forbes: So you wanna get funding? The first and fastest way, always, is to go to friends and family. They know you after all, and in spite of that, they may — just may — be willing and able to invest. The next best way is to look around the channels of distribution for your product. They are the companies that will understand and appreciate your product/service fastest….
Check out the post at our sister blog SustainZine.com: Phosphate World. This blog talks about the phosphate industry in Florida and the nice resort being built out of the rubble of past Phosphate mines over in the Tampa Bay area. That actually is pretty cool, but the point that phosphate fertilizer from mines is non-sustainable, and consequently is a broken business model. Peak Phosphate in the world could arrive by 2030. Innovation in preserving and…
