For those of us interested in alternative economics, it was a very interesting week on the Front Range of Colorado.  There was significant activity among and between many groups who are innovating better ways to flow capital (financial capital, sure, and also social, human, intellectual and natural capital) through our economy and society.
Slow Money, a [...]

This project has been a long time in the making.  For the 15 months, I’ve been advising and collaborating with the Business Catapult team, who have a unique vision on how to build and support a rich network of entrepreneurial business ecologies.
My passion in this arena is in helping progressive organizations increase their ability to [...]

People who think their social business concept is too important or too smart to share with people, and needs to be protected from prying eyes and potential copycats will probably not understand what’s going on at Futureshifters right now.
Social entrepreneurs from around the world are freely sharing their ideas for socially-minded businesses that ought to [...]

The White House has made a huge push into supporting social innovation.  The first hundred days of the administration included some non-trivial activity, including bringing on a team of some of the nation’s highest profile social innovators — including Sonal Shah (formerly at Google.org) and Van Jones (formerly of GreenForAll) — to their new Office [...]

The partnership with Innovation Networks for Communities, which centers on the development of nuPOLIS.com, has been a fascinating and rewarding journey into scalable social innovation.
Here is the May Update from this amazing network of innovators:
Online release of Chapter 2–”The Disruption of Community Life”–of new book: How Social Innovators are Transforming America’s Communities by Peter Plastrik [...]