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Thanks to a quite magic interaction flowing in - a story shared later - I ended up getting featured on Alltop.
And I added the badge to the sidebar!
Who said that blog posts needs to be longer than this? Macroblogs could be used for tumblelog lengths too :).
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Thus.
It's time to upgrade all the efforts to really get the word out, and the concept really widespread. Here is a to-do list of what to come.In focus are the efforts that have been drenched in the marinade over the last year, and not been systematically done. It is a public to-do list, which will be checked and linked when efforts gets completed - so follow the journey, where "checking" gets notified through Twitter, and the to-do list get more and more strike-thru's!
The Book - #causebizbook
The Campaign - #1Mcc
The Organization - ÆREAS
The SLICE Hands-On Sessions
Updating other websites and virtual profiles
There seem to be alot to do. GTD - Getting Things Done. Let's get started!
Towards one million hits of Sustainopreneurship on Google -
Yesterday my guest blogging on Internetdagarna was published, and today it's the week's most popular in track/topic "Mobility". I will translate both in full here on this blog, and publish them in one blog post/flow when I've written both parts - the second pre-event blogging before my live reporting from the event takes place is in one week.
It also recieved alot of great feedback - thank you all who made my spirit go up beyond the publishing! Here is the current frontpage and the spot "most popular this week".
I've been invited to http://internetdagarna.se - hosted by the Swedish .se foundation - as a live blogger to cover the track on Internet in the Mobile Phone. As a pre-event-blogging, I will blog two blog posts trying to cover the history and possible future(s) of mobile Internet. Blog posts are in Swedish, but you can always use Google Translate-Into-English bookmarklet for whatever you stumble upon, right? Or whatever language you master and prefer ;).
As you see, history really is history - found this pic in Ericsson's pic archive. I was three years old when this picture was taken :). 1969, that is. I realize one of the Godfathers of the Modern Mobile Phone is attending the days - Östen Mäkitalo! He's mentioned also in the blog post, of course :). Can't take "history" and "mobile phone" in the same sentence, without mentioning Östen!
Check out on the event site tomorrow 09.00 CET for the posting!
[this is my contribution for Blog Action Day 2009]
When we adress the problem of climate change, one method that usually gets mentioned, is ”carbon offset”. The basic thinking is that you compensate for your action results of CO2 emission by buying different kinds of compensating efforts – to go ”carbon neutral”. There is a strong difference in offset methods, though, and this needs to be prominently addresses. In one end it could just maintain ”business as usual”, investing in methods such as planting trees to absorb CO2 or take the greenhouse gases into the mountains. This does not affect the original source of the emissions – it is ”end of pipe” solutions. What we need is to focus ”beginning of pipe” innovations – and if the offset program focuses on the necessary technology shift towards sustainable distributed energy and mobility scaling, then it is of the better. In fact, then it becomes a main driver and (investment) forces to support this shift, in demand of disruptive sustainability innovation.
I would specifically like to adress three areas for these kinds of solution-oriented, long term-focused investment – solar energy for developing countries, aeroplanes and cars.
Developing countries - solar energy
Shifting kerosene and charcoal as energy sources in developing economies, and increasing access to electricity is crucial for development. Modern applications of renewable energy sources emerging from “clean tech” can literally (em)power the people! Extending the homework hours for the kids and some extra job hours at home can be made possible through Solar Home Systems, at the same time as the health damaging effects from kerosene lamps are gone. Micro hydro is also an efficient small-scale solution as opposed to the big water dams. Power at family and community level means power to the people, community up, not top down.
Solar energy and other forms of sustainable distributed small-scale infrastructure organized energy forms are financed through E+Co. There you can directly calculate how much an investment in small-scale renewable energy solutions providers mean in CO2 displacement, oil barrels and numbers of people helped to get a solar home system. Here, in this context, Grameen Shakti is worth mentioning, using micro finance as a model to provide villagers with renewable energy. Grameen Shakti have won the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’: The Right Livelihood Award.
Aeroplanes
One of the strongest emission sources is aeroplanes. There is no tendencies that we decrease our travel through flights, with the latest Airbus now swallowing beyond 600 persons and additional tracks are added to airports. What we need is a shift of the means of driving these planes, an area that Virgin Green Fund and Sir Richard Branson has addressed in the billion dollar investment portfolio.
Cars
The technology holding the promise in relative short term to provide a technology shift of cars is the “plug in hybrid”, where you use both electricity with recharging aside fuels such as ethanol, and further along the road maybe a hundred percent electrical car, such as the one developed by Tesla Motors – the Tesla Roadster.
Go Sustainable in Carbon Offset – choose the right program
Looking for carbon offset providers that focus renewable energy and energy efficiency improvement method development is far more sustainable, and generates a change engine empowering the so much needed shift towards a sustainable emission vision of getting to 350 parts per million of CO2 concentration in the biosphere (visit 350.org campaign site for more info). And we're in a hurry. Act fast - the clock is ticking. Let the Tesla Roadster be symbolic of the speed needed for the urgent technology shift and implementing the solution. You can make a change - with both your purchasing and investing power!
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Note: A guide with evaluation of different carbon offset vendors have been published by David Suzuki foundation. David Suzuki recieved this year's Right Livelihood Award.
Note 2: Some other campaigns worth noting:
Today it's the last day to vote on the 16 "ideas that change the world", that was the 10 year anniversary present from Google. Over 154 000 ideas were submitted by the "crowd", including one from my corner. That overwhelming response from this initiative made the sourcing for final ideas to vote on a huge task for the employees from Google set to filter them out. Two broken deadlines, and they decided not to make any new...
Enter September 24, 2009, one year after the competition was announced - and the work from 3 000 Googlians done - they have picked 16 idea themes, where they found a convergence from many of the ideas.
I happily conclude, that the field and theme my idea was related to was among the last 16 to go for the final vote - "social entrepreneurship".
The last selection will be 5 ideas for a board to choose from - and maybe fund efforts to leverage these ideas up to all 5 optionally, sharing 10 million dollars in prize money.
My pick, then, with today as last day to vote, would be Social Entrepreneurship - of course!
I think this initiative is far more interesting right now to follow, than nagging about getting Google Wave invites. Yes, Google Wave does have implications for the "doing" phase of social venturing, improving communication flow within and without sustainability venturing teams with strong leverage, but that thing is not launched yet. And I think contributions from 170 countries, submitting "10^5.2" ideas, is maybe the coolest crowd sourcing initiatives aiming for one thing (Wikipedia still Number One in this sphere) - to find the ideas have greatest world-changing impact! And here, social entrepreneurship was identified by the crowd - yes :) !
"Help social entrepreneurs drive change
CATEGORY: OPPORTUNITY
Create a fund to support social entrepreneurship. This idea was inspired by a number of user proposals focused on "social entrepreneurs" -- individuals and organizations who use entrepreneurial techniques to build ventures focused on attacking social problems and fomenting change. Specific relevant ideas include establishing schools that teach entrepreneurial skills in rural areas; supporting entrepreneurs in underdeveloped communities; and creating an entity to provide capital and training to help entrepreneurs build viable businesses and catalyze sustained community change.
SUGGESTIONS THAT INSPIRED THIS IDEA
1. Provide targeted capital and business training to help young entrepreneurs build viable businesses and catalyze sustained community change
2. Create a non-profit, venture capital-like revolving fund to invest in high-impact local entrepreneurs
3. Send young American entrepreneurs to underdeveloped communities to help create small businesses that would economically benefit those communities
4. Create schools in rural areas to teach local people how to become entrepreneurs
5. Create a private equity fund to help immigrants in developed countries finance business development in their countries of origin"
Now, GO VOTE!
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About Sustainopreneurship Sustainopreneurship means "Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Sustainability", or "Business with a Cause". In short, it means to solve a sustainability-related problem by creating/finding a sustainability innovation and take the solution to the market by creative business organizing, and venturing with respect to the needs fulfillment of current and future stakeholders. [read more...] |
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About the Author Anders Abrahamsson is a Sustainopreneurial Facilitator, Global Knowledge Nomad and Qualitative Intentional Networker, writing a book on Sustainopreneurship, and running three ventures; SLICE Services and Publishing, DJ Anders, and ÆREAS(i); with a daughter three years old named Nadine, in a relationship with Karin, and happily adopted by her cat Wendy. [read more...] |
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About this Blog This blog is about sustainopreneurship in both abstract and concrete dimensions - idea development, research, reflective practice and proactive application. Key tags are sustainability, innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity and the social web. The blog is both in English and Swedish depending on the cultural context and target group of the posting. |
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