When The Wall St. Journal Online covers the growing complementary currency movement in the same week that The Economist talks about triple-bottom-line values encroaching on traditional investing, it appears that maybe, just maybe, the consciousness around money is finally changing.
In the most recent installment, WSJ’s video report covers a wide range of popular currency initiatives, [...]

Social entrepreneurs are often challenged by the legal structure of their new enterprise.  These entrepreneurs weigh a long list of pros and cons between for-profit and non-profit.  A new entity, the Low-Profit Limited Liability Company (L3C).
This email from Martin Montero (@montero on Twitter — worthy of a follow), co-founder of the Austin Social Innovation Hub [...]

Just read about Sharespost on this Mashable piece on the valuation of Facebook and LinkedIn.  (for those of you who can’t handle the suspense: Facebook is worth about $4 billion, and LinkedIn about $1.5 billion).
Most of the companies listed are web2.0 companies, many of which you may know.  Almost all are Silicon Valley companies, creating [...]

In addition to the fact that Denver has now twice been identified as the major metro area best poised for economic recovery (tip to newbie tweeter Adam Rentschler), there’s some pretty exciting progressive economic activity happening up and down the Front Range.
Coming up on July 9th is the Responsible Economy Roundtable, hosted by Richard Eidlin [...]

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 [...]

I wrote this yesterday at the AWhere Blog: Geo-Analytics Transforms CA Politics.  It’s a story told in ever-increasing zoom about how the Proposition 8 opponents Google Mapped the pro-Prop8 donors.  An interesting and intense demonstration of how location intelligence and mapping creates actionable insight.

Final Screen Shot: Street View, Anyone?

Apologies for the deafening silence over here.  Busy on a research project, a web-development project (that’s almost done) and firming up my retainer clients for 2009.  Living the “Be The Change” movement of Obama and beyond, and will have a lot to talk about in another few weeks, so expect this space to heat back [...]

My latest column just ran at Colorado Biz magazine.  It investigates alt.energy investments at any level, from the WalMart shopper to President Obama.   Here’s an excerpt:
Angel-level investing
If you are a bona-fide angel investor, looking to cash in on clean-tech, there are two places where an investment of a couple hundred thousand dollars will actually [...]

Who reads TIME and Newsweek anymore?  Not many people I know — except my mom, who brought about three issues of the latter with her for Thanksgiving.  During the perceived junk-out — err, semi-annual research into mainstream media coverage trends — I was pretty surprised to find an article about complementary currencies titled “Small Town [...]