How We Create Meaning Together

Posted on 21. Jul, 2009 by in * Collaborative Design, * Sustainable Innovation

Understanding how we create and enrich meaning … can help us to determine and implement collaboration tools that help us generate valued outcomes, such as business products and services. Watch this video to learn how group design and understanding process is enhanced when three key parts of the brain are working in coordination: 1-the ‘ventral more »

Is Sustainable Commerce an Oxymoron?

Posted on 09. Jul, 2009 by in * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology, * Sustainable Innovation

Being sustainable has everything to do with being innovative. In fact, it is beginning to generate the next generation of creative products and services on (and for) this planet. Yet, with all of our amazing efforts, something seems to be drastically missing. There’s a BIG BLACK HOLE that the subject of sustainable commerce seems to more »

Reconsidering the Meaning of "New" Technology

Posted on 09. Feb, 2009 by in * Sustainable Innovation

A critical piece to technological success in an emerging era of the green (or sustainable) design marketplace is to, not just create cool, cutting edge technologies, but to also define design itself differently so that technology’s underlying processes comply with the new principles of triple bottom line (sustainability) management. That is, we must redesign our more »

Living Strategies: Bringing Innovation To Life

Posted on 22. Dec, 2008 by in * Leadership Ecology, * Sustainable Innovation

Guiding Your Organization Through The Rugged Landscape Ahead By Arian Ward of Community Frontiers As we all know well, the world has changed dramatically since the times when traditional strategic planning first became the foundation on which organizations of all types are based. The landscape on which organizations operated then was relatively predictable, stable, and more »

Sustainability Reporting and the Creative Process

Posted on 14. Dec, 2008 by in * Sustainable Innovation

Which of you are familiar with the concepts of creativity, innovation, and sustainability? I seek direction from you on how to incorporate ‘deep creative’ processes within Discovery Fuel’s emerging ‘sustainability reporting’ CoLaboratories. The sustainability reporting phenomena is a rapidly growing trend within organizations world-wide and covers all sectors including business, NGO’s, communities/cities, education, and government. more »

Innovation and the Great Global Warming Debate

Posted on 20. Nov, 2008 by in * Sustainable Innovation

This is a great article. I like the authors that counter an anticipated perspective based on their status; in his case, as a scientist. I agree with Botkin’s perspective here. Note that the author’s points do not counter any of my other social-intellectual points made earlier. I too have as much concern for the exaggeration more »

Triple Bottom Line Investing: A New Framework for Innovation

Posted on 16. Nov, 2008 by in * Sustainable Innovation

I have long awaited the day when business and technology would begin to use principles of sustainability as the foundation for how we create and pay for our products and services. Well, the future has arrived with the concept of “” and socially responsible investing, which holds a whole new framework for innovation to emerge. more »

Policy Innovations: When Principles Pay

Posted on 08. Nov, 2008 by in * Sustainable Innovation

I found this at http://www.policyinnovations.org. It discusses the idea of when principles can be profitable in the world market. I like to think of ‘profit’ as much more expanded and profound than how we use the word in our society today. This video is worth a look. Tell me what comes up for you. When more »

Vic on Sustainable Innovation

Posted on 27. Oct, 2008 by in * Sustainable Innovation

I have long awaited the day when business and technology begin to use principles of sustainability as the foundation for creating and using products and services. Well, the future has arrived and I’m all over it. Under concepts like ‘triple bottom line’ and ‘social responsibility’ the idea of innovation is showing up in new ways. more »

Vic on Keepin' it Green – the Color of "Sustainable Innovation"

Posted on 06. Oct, 2008 by in * Sustainable Innovation

As most of you who clicked into this space: green is no longer a do-good concept. No, in fact it has become a manditory part of defining any business, any organization, any city … really anything that we humans have the ability to think about and create will forever be different because of the green more »

Bottled Water – The Joke’s On Us (video)

Posted on 13. Sep, 2008 by in * Sustainable Innovation

http://storyofbottledwater.org The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film explores more »

Aug 11th Webinar: Sustainable Innovation from the Amazon

Posted on 10. Aug, 2008 by in * Sustainable Innovation

Runa: Energy, Sustainability & Innovation from the Amazon A forefront conservation enterprise, Runa is partnered with native agronomists in the Ecuadorian Amazon to achieve market-driven restoration. The venture will be the first to market read-to-drink Wuayusa tea, a traditional beverage similar to Yerba Mate, that enhances mental clarity and personal energy. Tyler Gage, Runa CEO, more »

Seemingly "green" state ballot propositions

Posted on 02. Feb, 2007 by in * Sustainable Innovation

The language of propositions can be quite manipulative. I often think I’m voting yes when no is what I wanted, and visa versa. Below is a trust-able source – the Union for Concerned Scientists (http://www.ucsusa.org), to help you choose well at the polls on Tuesday. When you go to the polls this Tuesday, November 4, more »

Who Says It Ain’t Easy Being Green ?! (Sustainable Business Planning Workshop)

Posted on 16. Jan, 2007 by in * Collaborative Design, * Sustainable Innovation

How to Create a ‘Sustainable’ Business Plan AN ONLINE WORKSHOP .Join Vic Desotelle from DiscoveryFuel.com for an ONLINE collaborative sustainable business planning workshop series. This session will allow you to preview and inquire about the series, which is for small business social entrepreneurs who have dreamed of owning a sustainable business. Learn how to make more »

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