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30 Oct

Peak Oil Is Confirmed

If there were any doubt, a recent piece in the Financial Times leaked a report (free reg req’d) from the International Energy Agency which says that global oil production is already decreasing.
I wrote about this over at the Business Catapult blog.
Dylan said it best,
the first one now will later be last
the present now will [...]

24 Oct

Viva Evolution (or, How To Stop Worrying and Love The Economy)

It has been an exciting few weeks, with many high-end networking events in Boulder around sustainability, investing and clean tech.  While the financial crisis remains in full swing, many investors, entrepreneurs and thought leaders are looking to the future and charting the course for the next phase in the Boulder / Colorado / U.S. economy.
Trustworthy [...]

11 Oct

WWBD? (what would Buffet do?)

Blogged his interview with Charlie Rose over at Business Catapult blog.
Unique and interesting perspective.  Check it.

02 Oct

Transcend (and include) The Financial Crisis

Well, it took me a while.  I came off my game for almost two weeks.
But on a drive home from an inspiring meeting with Kevin (Johansen, my Business Catapult business partner and long time co-consipirator), I fully and completely transcended (and included, as the integral school teaches) the financial crisis.  That is to say, the [...]

29 Sep

Evolution Of The American Mind

You need to watch a video that captures, in just over five minutes, a strong analogy of the American mindset.
Last week, Steven Colbert had Cornell West on his show.  It is an incredible interview.  Two highly influential American change agents — each of whom has built an impactful and borderline absurd public persona — face [...]

27 Sep

UN Foundation Project Begins

I couldn’t be more excited about getting to work with AWhere on helping design a collective intelligence engine for the UN Foundation.
Here’s a recent two-part intervew I did at the AWhere Blog with UNF change agent Kevin Starace.  In his words:
As chair of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Performance Subcommittee we’re mandated to help the [...]

21 Sep

What Is A Virtual Country?

Over the years, I’ve done a lot of reading and thinking about what it means to have virtual countries, as an extension of virtual communities.  I’ve investigated citizenship, legal and virtual, and have learned a lot about island nations, especially Sealand.
One of my current projects is designing a hybrid social network and media portal for [...]

12 Sep

Climate Changes Hits Balance Sheets on Both Side of Atlantic

My “new best friend” Anita Burke has sent me two pieces recently that demonstrate how quickly climate change is affecting business in financial and legal ways.
First, a court in the UK just exonerated protesters who caused $70,000 worth of damage to a coal plant, using a British legal tenet exemplified as “it’s OK to break [...]

05 Sep

Breakthroughs In Business Map Mashups

It’s been a great summer over at AWhere, where breakthroughs in geo-analysis, location intelligence and busines map mashups have come one right after another.

CPG Vision lets category managers at consumer package goods companies visualize the entirety of their Retail Link data from WalMart, and correlate it with demographic data from Neilsen as well as weather [...]

29 Jul

A Little Traveling Music?

Theodore Geisel is one of the most influential post-war American writers.
He is the nuance…
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!

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