Notes from a Sustainopreneur | on Sustainability Entrepreneurship

[#changeblogger] Changeblogger Meme - version 2.0

Since last time I wrote up the #changeblogger meme response, so many things have changed, that even the write-up two months ago have become obsolete in some sections. This brings me to a total extreme write-over, first and foremost to increase clarity that has come from interaction from some of my deep peers and key-connections, in plain English called friends - for real! Ah, and yeah, things changing all the time for a changeblogger? Well, naturally, of course ;).

What is one change - big or small, local or global - you want to see in your lifetime?

Seeing millions of sustainopreneurial ventures and events take place, big and small, local and global, virtual and physical, for the benefit of the billions of people, everywhere. With the largest number being small, local and offline with a big, global and virtual connection and mindset. Sustainopreneurship is ALL about change to make the world a better place - so it is all the way reflecting the spirit of the meaning of "changeblogger" when blogging away this topic! The agenda is big enough to create millions of businesses for the benefit of the billions of people - and planet - to turning the world's biggest problems to even larger business opportunities. If I need to prioritize within which areas, I would refer to my SEEDS Model - Strengthening of Health, Education, Entrepreneurship, Digital Unification and Sustainable Distributed Energy and Mobility. Poverty. Climate Change. Water and Food Security. Health issues at large - reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, sleeping disease, preventing pandemics. Clean production, consumption, tech, water, energy. Communication for all. You name it. Solutions are captured within these SEEDS areas. Maybe to call it The Business of Peace-making in the end, tackling all the root causes in a broadest applied spectrum at deeply rooted local level?

Who is already working this issue that you think others should support?

I am all living, breathing, dreaming, acting, networking, branding, creating, enacting, empowering, entrusting, enjoying, exploring, experiencing, proliferating, facilitating, writing, doing, sleeping, eating, burping, laughing, playing, smiling, sweating, venturing, campaigning,  soundtracking, enlarging, making, being, yes really being - did I say living, living, living? :) - this issue 24/7/365. Being, yes. Being the Change I want to See.

So support me ;).

And that is not an act of shameless self-promotion, rather to support the work I do to make leverage to the sustainopreneurial movement at large, e. g. things I focus and point to with those making a change already - change makers I find along the way and blog about. Help them out. Blog their work. Use your sphere of influence to give them a helping hand. For some inspirational case stories, see the SEEDS Innovation Fund web. And that is so far beyond 'me' it can be. 'We'. For real. The Family of Humanity.

How are you going to use your Web/tech/marcom skills to further this cause? (Or, what are you already doing that works?)

I have defined six action areas with ventures rolling out in part parallel, part serial process, with my own practical down-to-earth contribution. The prioritized, here and now -

to get the primary SLICE Service and Publishing ("Sustainopreneurial Lecturing, Inspiration, Consultancy and Events" - my freelancing brand at http://www.slice.nu) project focused reaching success - getting the virtual freelancing platform and space Ki-Work Category Marketplace Sustainability Entrepreneurship empowered with 75 Category Experts (see press release).

to have the research venture ÆREAS ("Association for Enactive Research, Education and Application of Sustainopreneurship") constituted, finding 150 Founding Members, with the Virtual Community "Sustainopreneur's Café" as its home, with http://www.aereas.nu and http://www.sustainopreneurship.org as the two destinations for the web and community for the interim association, and 

In the central, though, in order to get even more leverage, spread, speed and power for the issue through my SLICE-Published blog; Notes from a Sustainopreneur - the blog you're reading now - covering the Why, What and How of Sustainopreneurship. And where I will use ALL thinkable and unthinkable social media tools and approaches both in spreading the idea and concept (e. g. spreading it through a Conceptual Campaign), developing (writing up a book through some tools) and concrete venturing (using collaborative tools and communication engines in the process, internally and externally). Social media is a key to create leverage for the movement!

That's it!

Now, tagging! Karin Johansson, Naima Benali, Jack Yan, Chris Heuer, Johnnie Moore, Tim Kitchin, John Caswell, Chris Macrae, Mostofa Zaman, Sofia Bustamante, Sadiq Baig, Ed Daniel, John Dierckx, AainaA Ridtz A-R, Lilly Evans, Don the Idea Guy, Ben Koot, Jozefa Fawcett, Richard Gatarski, Simon Warrick, Fabian Pattberg, George Pór, Vincent Wright, Steve Purkiss, Anna Dani, Ed Mitchell, DK, Scott Allen, Tav Espians, Tracy Ann Sheridan, Yvette Dubel, Takuya Misawa, Dennis Barker, Daniel Westergren, Kerry Santo, Josef Davies-Coates, Margaret G Orem, Linda Pierre, Karl Goldfield, Frauke Godat, Patrick Moore, Tom Ball, Johan Thomas, Tim Sandgren, Nick Clayton,  Niclas Ihrén, Christian Conrad, Zach Lane, Cristina Andersson, Curt Rosengren, Paul Arthur Smith, Ahmadou M. Sall, Therese Weel, Inger-Mette Stenseth, Marcus Berneström, Dave Hampton, Simon Sharp, Richard Nelson, Steve Brant, Celine Ruben-Salama, Christine Crowstaff, Annie Berger, David Bowman, Curt Beckmann,

BLOG ACTION DAY 2008: What is Poverty? - and 'Giving a Concept to the World'

Poverty is a complex concept, not to say the least culturally defined. What we should talk about is life quality in terms of happiness. And here lies a paradox. It seems that the moving from absolute poverty at survival level to the next signifies a strong increase in happiness, but when you slide up the income scale there is no direct correlation in between an added dollar and an extra smiley face. Reducing marginal returns. In this context, maybe the developed world has something to learn from the developing, with their often hard living conditions, often need to keep their spirit and creativity levels high, and ingenuity to fix the situation and then making you see another day makes you happier. I've seen this power first-hand during my stay in Uganda 2001-02. Spiritual Poverty is also worth considering a change!

But, if we talk about strictly financial poverty, there is a multitude of complex cause-and-effect loops in a systems dynamics making it hard to know where to begin. But here lies the clue - it is with this complex interdependence of mixed root causes you have to solve it in a multi-dimensional way, with many simultaneously operating sustainability innovations. Look at it this way. HIV/AIDS takes away the bread winner of the family, the teacher from the kid and the doctor from the town in Sub-Saharan Africa. Global warming and Climate Change leads to increased floods in Bangladesh and droughts elsewhere. Inequal distribution of risk capital leads to a vicious circle of low wage - low savings - low financing of ventures. Low access to Internet and cell-phones leads to extremely high transaction costs for the locally operating micro-entrepreneur and cash crop farmer. All this contributes to the status quo of an absolute poverty level kept high.

So, at the same time, we need a HIV/AIDS vaccine, distributed renewable energy, cellphones, a $100 computer not just for the school kid and micro credit. And especially a combination of all these.

And millions of sustainability innovations and ventures beyond this, both in number of innovations, and in the ventures deploying the already found innovations, franchising everywhere, to every community. Thus, my premier gift to the humanity is the development of a concept focusing the business organizing taking these problems and turning them into business opportunities: Sustainopreneurship. Business with a Cause!

On World Poverty Day, October 17, a special publishing will be done of this concept - be sure to return to this blog to see a great event, where the concept is given to the public domain in a very special context making it flourish from a very specific spot freely accessible!

A last word: Blog Action Day for this blog with the themes environment last year, and poverty this year is extended to All Media Action Year for me, since I am devoting all my days to the development and further flourishing of this concept in the virtual world and in real life - Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Sustainability - with aims to solve sustainability-related problems such as climate change and poverty.

And from now on, this blog will be starting to tell the story leading to the book (see sidebar), marking this blog as a starting point! Look out for the first post soon!

UPDATE [JULY2008]: Summarizing Progress of Sustainopreneurship and Personal Research Advancements

Hi, patient reader,

It has been along time since I fed this blog with some new really simple syndicated material. If there are some subscribers left, thank you for your endurance :).

My life has undergone some quite dramatic shifts on the private side, that made much of the stuff stand on a halt, and with my intention communicated in October last year (*phew!*) to post more regularly here in notes format, and move the academic heavy stuff to the iÆREAS blog just got postponed. But with recent stuff breaking through (also mostly on the private side!), I now feel confident to try to summarize what happened since last time. This bulleted list of events will be followed up with more extensive coverage in the more research-oriented iÆREAS blog at 300~500 words each entry, one separate posting per headline below, so this is just what happened, not so much the content. Links will be added in updates when respective blog article has been written.

The FSF Book - book chapter undergone last edits this past spring

The collaborative effort to publish an anthology on enterprising for local and regional development has undergone the last edits from the author group, and is now in the hands of a language checker, and will be published this Autumn, 2008. Working title for the book is "Bridging the functional and territorial view of entrepreneurship and regional development", where my contribution is named "Sustainopreneurship - Business with a Cause. The Promise of Creative Organizing for Sustainability", and is focused on a gross list of emerging research questions to deepen the understanding for and knowledge of sustainopreneurship. An abstract of the book chapter can be found at the publishing page of iÆREAS - http://iaereas.weebly.com/publishing.html. [UPDATE 20AUG2008]: The final language corrections and short bio now submitted, book is set to be printed and released in conjunction with the "Entrepreneurship Week" arranged by FSF 15-19 September 2008 in Sweden on tour, with kick-off and biggest event in beautiful Tylösand, Halmstad - "The 4th International Entrepreneurship Research Award Winner Conference".

FSF Young Researcher's Workshop, Jan 22, 2008

In January, in conjunction to the Small Enterprise Days in Örebro, preceding the big 500+ attendants event, was a little group of ~20 researchers gathered to present their current research projects. I contributed with three pages in paper and a powerpoint presentation on what prospective research I can do related to sustainopreneurship, and I got some decent advice and feedback to what would be viable and pragmatically researchable. The outcome of that workshop had a direct implication that I narrowed my gross list of research questions to a net list, focusing sustainability innovation case studies to increase the understanding of the core of the concept, more on this at the iÆREAS blog to come.

FSF Small Business and Enterprising Days, Jan 23-24, 2008

From that little and intimate context followed the biggest singular event related to recent advances of research on entrepreneurship and business development for the general public in Sweden, in Swedish "Småföretagsdagarna 2008". The conference took place in a big congress hall in Örebro, and besides the big plenary sessions there were also small, topical workshops in two-figure number to choose from. It was the first time Sustainopreneurship was mentioned to a larger group offline in a popular context focusing non-academians, when the FSF book was presented and introduced. Some of the authors had special presentations on their respective contribution. A small workshop was also held in conjunction to the big plenary session, where I got the chance to present my contribution to the book in a minute or so. In general to mention, the conference had many things related to social entrepreneurship, so the topic is increasing in attention.

One special thing to mention is that it got announced that my mentor, tutor and professor Bengt Johannisson (Växjö University/Jönköping International Business School) got awarded the FSF-NUTEK Award on Entrepreneurship research, as the first Swede to get it - once again, congratulations! I live-blogged about it here!

 

Slide presented by Åsa Lindholm-Dahlstrand, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Halmstad University.
The topics of the book edited by Bengt Johannisson and Åsa Lindholm-Dahlstrand.

14th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference in New Delhi, 21-23 Sept, 2008 - Paper Accepted [UPDATE: But will not go to India]

After the hectic days in Örebro, I received an invitation from ISDRS (www.isdrs.org) and the annual conference I attended last year, and taking the advice from the workshop in Örebro as mentioned, I narrowed down the research formulation, and contributed with an abstract following the guidelines from Örebro. It suggests a deeper research on Sustainability Innovations, to systematize them in a general framework, and identifiying key dimensions on sustainability innovations. The paper introduces the SEEDS model as a way to guide us where to find key areas for sustainopreneurial applications. I got notified May 20, that my paper was accepted for a presentation. The abstract is available at http://iaereas.weebly.com/publishing.html. The title of the conference article is "Towards a deeper understanding of sustainopreneurship - identifying core dimensions and aspects of sustainability innovations". UPDATE [20AUG2008]: Due to lack of sufficient funding I will not contribute with the full paper and go to India this time.

Umeå University/Mälardalen University, Meta-theorizing the Sustainable Economy, in Umeå, June 10-11, 2008

In a workshop jointly arranged by Umeå University and Mälardalen University by Professor Peter Dobers, MDH and PhD Tommy Jensen, USBE/UMU, "Meta-Theorizing the Sustainable Economy", I got invited to present my works on Sustainopreneurship and future research. Mainly a powerpoint presentation and version of the intended conference article in India [UPDATE - 20AUG2008: The trip to India will not be there, see above], I went through the current state of ideas and thinking, and presented the tentative model to systematize the sustainability innovations. I will write about the feedback at the iÆREAS blog in a separate entry.

Included in the Ashoka University Network Handbook on Social Entrepreneurship Education and Research

One special recognition I got in March was to be included in the volume “Social Entrepreneurship Teaching Resources Handbook”, published by Ashoka's Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship and edited by Debbi Brock (Berea College), Marina Kim (Global University Academy Program) and Susan Davis (Global Academy Chair), for faculty involved in teaching and/or research in social entrepreneurship. A first version of the Faculty Directory was published in August 2007.

Recommendation letter from professor Bengt Johannisson from March 17, 2008

In March, I also got a special testimonial and endorsement from my professor, Bengt Johannisson. It recognizes my capabilities both as a teacher, researcher and practitioner, and of course I am very grateful to get it. I will blog about it separately to give it respect. I hope it will be in support especially for finding teaching, mentoring and coaching opportunities as well as future research options. A jpeg preview is found here - click thumbnail to enlarge.

 

Future developments - iÆREAS build-up, conversation net-spots and Social Enterprise Category at Ki-work

The immediate future actions is to more systematically advance the iÆREAS venture focusing research, educating and learning related to sustainopreneurship, especially focusing membership recruitment, and let the conversation be stimulated through the community related. As for now, there are three spots online mainly focused;

• Sustainopreneur's Café - Community at Ning - http://sustainopreneurship.ning.com
• Sustainopreneur's Square - Facebook Group (mainly for updates and newsletters) - http://groups.to/sustainopreneurship
• Sustainopreneur's Directory - LinkedIn Group - search the LinkedIn Groups directory for tag 'sustainopreneurship' and then apply through here!

To advance the setup of the ÆREAS organization, a dedicated Ki-work project has been set up at http://www.ki-work.com/ki-project/aereas/. It is in need of 150 Founding Members in its interim stage, aiming at constitution third quarter 2009. Ki-work will also be the main window for the freelancing and consultancy I do through SLICE, see http://www.ki-work./ki-profile/andersabrahamsson.

[UPDATE 20AUG2008]: There is a need for sustainopreneurship applied, in a wider sense for the whole business community, and since this post was written, I have been appointed Category Leader for the Ki-work virtual platform for online freelancers in the Social Enterprise business category - http://www.ki-work.com/ki-category/socialenterprise - where an immediate need is to recruit 75 Category Experts for my business category is needed. See the project page here - http://www.ki-work.com/ki-project/ki-category-social-enterprise-experts!

For all publications so far, see http://www.scribd.com/groups/view/14181-sustainopreneurship-research.

For current SLICE projects, see http://projects.slice.nu. The action map on a general level has also been updated significantly, see http://actionmap.andersabrahamsson.info.

Last, but not least, the general information page/hub about Sustainopreneurship has been updated as well, see http://www.sustainopreneurship.info.

You are welcome to join the conversation and be a part of the advancement of the conceptual development and especially its application!

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ADDENDUM [30JULY2008]: Scribd library link added above.

UPDATES [20AUG2008]: Book release details, India Trip Cancelled, Social Enterprise @ Ki-work - Category Leadership with need of 75 Category Experts.

UPDATE: Sustainopreneurship, October, 15, 2007. Blog Action Day!

Today is Blog Action Day, where thousands of people have signed up to blog about the "environment". Since I have been idle some months writing, I thought it was the best day to get back on track! Here is my take on the "environment", or "ecosystem" at large, including the embedded systems "humanity", the social system, and in turn the "economy" system embedded in that. Focus on the whole, and you will get great results in the small part you influence! Go look up a place where the light disturbance is at lowest level to see the stars in a clear night covering the sky, and conclude that you, yeah - you! - is a part of universe, and everything you do comes back to you. Karma-verse, right?

So - with that note as a connection to the Blog Action Day theme, let's limit my influence to the part of the biosphere to what has happened lately during 2007.

Sustainopreneurship - above, beyond, next level - the sky, as always, the limit

The update covers education, events, publications, a new organization, a virtual community, a new research-focused blog and a change in "blogging policy and frequency" as consequence, and immediate future, with resources needed for further advancement.

• Education - Master of Science, Business Administration, Växjö University. Thesis Hand-In April 27, approved May 3, degree June 25.

I have completed, finally, the tailor-made little Master's program, which I spread over the years, to mix with the sustainopreneurial practitioner route of On a Mission / Ignition. What made the final point of the empirical journey was the first concluded externally recruited client collected beyond already established network March 22, 2007, which made a natural point to close the very wide circle that began in January, 2000 - the original "Ignition". Ten thousand stories later, and a few crucial, critical and main course of events defining both concept and venture in its well-research business model covered in the Thesis, made the bulk in the empirical testing of the concept first tested theoretically and analytically dry and academically from the conference 2005 and published in September 2006.

The structure of the definition almost magically made it possible to structure the story-telling as well in the auto-ethnographic/enactive research approach towards the writing and final delivery of the product. The thesis got graded 8 out of 9 (with very, very few getting 9/9 in general) - meaning close to the top grade :). I am very happy and contempt with this sense-making, where my mind now getting clear to tell the world what "sustainopreneurship" is about. Now well anchored in the academic community, close to one of the epicentres of world leading research on entrepreneurship done at Växjö University. Presto! I wish to thank all that contributed, full acknowledgement is found in the preface.

The thesis is findable both at "regular" Google, as well as the "academic", Google Scholar.
Google - general search "sustainopreneurship" - on top 3, today
Google Scholar

Direct link for download full text PDF is found at the abstract page here;
http://www.diva-portal.org/vxu/undergraduate/abstract.xsql?dbid=1254 - the scientific swedish digital archive.

• Event - International Sustainable Development Research Society, 13th Conference, Västerås, Sweden - paper contribution, "Researching Sustainopreneurship"

As a direct sequel, I got a short-term employment of three weeks from the University, funded by Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research through my professor Bengt Johannisson who is co-chairing one of the research programs there.

The full title;

"Researching Sustainopreneurship – conditions, concepts, approaches, arenas and questions"

Download ResearchingSustainopreneurship-Abrahamsson.pdf

• Publications - beyond - Two book chapters, One special report

Both the Thesis and the paper will be edited and published in new formats and contexts.

The Thesis, integrated and syntetisized with the conference article outlining future research and its agenda, will be published as a special report through FSF/Växjö University. The paper will be edited and adapted to fit in a book about entrepreneurship and small business contribution to local and regional development co-edited by the chairs of the mentioned research program that funded my paper in the first place, besides Bengt, also Åsa Dahlström-Lindstrand.

At the ISDRS conference, I also got invited to contribute with my works in relation to the "Base of the Pyramid" paradigm (where e. g. this blog has been featured in this context at a reference site earlier, see www.design4billions.com > BoP Library). The book will be published May 2008 - see outline and idea of the book here at publisher Greenleaf Publishing site.

The working name of my contribution is

 

"Sphering the Pyramid – empowering the world through sustainopreneurial events"

It will be an attempt to contrast and tie the sustainopreneurship conceptual ideas with the Base of the Pyramid idea-sphere, and thus enlarge the discource created with the BoP idea development. This is partly done by more closely examine some considered-to-be sustainopreneurial events emerging from the specific needs found in the BoP context, and also tries to more deeply coin the SEEDS acronym. SEEDS has been concluded as good areas for sustainopreneurial applications and ventures to grow from, where SEEDS stands for Strengthening of Health, Education, Entrepreneurship, Digital Unification and Sustainable Distributed Energy.

The SEEDS is also partly covered in the Thesis (especially the process which this model was researched and deeply evolved, especially through synchronicities and serendipities). The SEEDS concept is a cornerstone to guide the investments in sustainability innovations which will be made with parts of the annual results generated from the sustainable trade business Ignition.

• iÆREAS initiated - Organizing Sustainopreneurship Research

Since the publication list now have reached a critical mass, and needs for advancement and further organizing the knowledge development surrounding this discovered phenomenon, I was branding a new organization as a suggestion of further actions from my research paper at the ISDRS conference. The future name of this will be Association for Enactive Research, Education and Application of Sustainopreneurship. As a first step, an interim association will be created. It is intended to be a multi-stakeholder, bridging organization in between researchers, educators and practitioners - where optimally all are one in one person. The Enactive Researcher and Learner (not Teacher ;). Or at least, as an influence maybe from the organization, you can become it! A website and blog was finished last week, and a closed, private invitation round commences from today, October 15!

iÆREAS Website / iÆREAS Blog

If you feel that you are interested in contributing to the research, you are welcome to contact me, done with convenience and simplicity through the website.

• Sustainopreneur's Café - a Community for Sustainopreneurs launched!

Since much of the work the past years has rendered a far-stretched network of interested stakeholders, and the need for conversation around the sustainopreneurship concept has been identified, especially at the conference seminar this summer, a virtual community has been created, open for anyone interested. It was claimed March 21 when the community ICT platform used was launched (Ning), but will be activated now with the above created - Sustainopreneur's Café: http://sustainopreneurship.ning.com.

• Changing the publishing flow - separating the streams, changing the frequency

As a consequence, the more research/academia/publishing oriented work will be published through the iÆREAS blog, whereas the more everydayness of sustainopreneurship, with interesting case studies, related notes and events to come in an experienced frequency increase lately, will be published here on the blog - finally living up to its name: "Notes". Thus, the more applied stream will occur here with more frequent posting than before. Time to get leverage for the concept in action, now when inception of the "next level" has been - concluded with this posting!

That, said: Now I especially welcome you to the community, taking place in the central as a key cornerstone and platform to continue the conversation and sharing/caring amongst the most proximate stakeholders, i. e. my 1st degrees from all contexts in the first round - Sustainopreneur's Café!

Free coffee on the house from yours sincerely, the Café Host, for all that joins during October :). Fair traded and organically grown, of course ;).

In a final note, I would like to make this posting a tribute to one of the original sustainopreneurs in retrospect - Dame Anita Roddick, that tragically and fast passed away in September. We will always remember that you convincingly and with endurance made the face of business as an activity in life change, for the true betterment created through Body Shop. I dedicate this posting to you, Anita! I feel very sad about the fact that I never had the chance to experience her live, whereas she had a public appearance in Stockholm at Sustainability Day earlier this spring.

Let's continue the journey that you started, to proliferate and spread the idea, applied - to create Businesses with a Cause. In the end, being the mainstream way to do business globally!

Dear reader - you're welcome to join this journey!

Peace,
Anders

 

A scarce asset in a noisy world: Silence

Hi, reader,

After a long time off-blog, I just wanted to post away with a pre-announcement of a Major Update to come. Alot of activity back-blog (especially cleaning up my back-log ;), and getting ready to take the concept of Sustainopreneurship to the next level - both in applied interaction and increased understanding of the idea in itself.

In applied interaction through the well-researched business model of Ignition that started the whole process of conceptualizing to find a home in the concept-sphere of "starting up things".

In organizing the related research building a multi-pillar web presence to facilitate collaborative wisdom, researching sustainopreneurship as a phenomenon more systematically.

An enlarged update comes soon, stay tuned!

And, in the mean time, appreciate meditative spots of existance, listen to what whispers in the tree-tops, in short: Listen to the Voices of Silence. You don't get much of that now, do you?

Peace,
Anders

FORMER STICKY BLOG: A Quick Guide to this Online Stream

NOTE [23SEPT2008]: This used to be the featured blog, on top. It has been removed as featured, and replaced with small fact boxes in the sidebars following the redesign that took place in September. This about blog post is kept here for archive purposes.

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Hi, Dear Visitor and Reader,

Where do you come from? Why did you end up here?

You could always step forward and add yourself a comment to this Top Post - yes, always on Top, featured - if you find yourself and your stream of life worth traceable for me :).

So, with that said, my Top 5 Quick Guide for "Notes from a Sustainopreneur | About Sustainability Entrepreneurship".

#1. Definition
Sustainopreneurship defined: www.sustainopreneurship.info. This blog is all about that. In idea, inspiration, applied interaction and strive for real-world results.

• Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Sustainability, or
• Business with a Cause

Note: Among a million plus hits on "sustainability entrepreneurship" on Google - two generic terms  having some 30 million hits each, separately - this blog and its related pages has been constantly featured among top ten for the last years.

#2. Frequence
I keep the blogs here not-so-often posting. It is more like an article and condensed, distilled wisdom aggregator where we (yeah, we, the people around me virtually everywhere) has added enough insight to post here - where my philosophy is:

"Sharing is Caring"

UPDATE: As by the blog update of July 17, 2008, many of the deeper distillations now will be streamed over at the research-oriented sustainopreneurship activity channeled through iÆREAS ('interim Association for Enactive Research, Education and Application of Sustainopreneurship'), and mainly its blog and publication list, and move this Notes from a Sustainopreneur blog more towards popular more frequent shorter notes - living up to its name!

#3. Social bookmarking
For the constant stream of the many facets of my doings, you can get the Bigger Picture through my social bookmarking in the left sidebar - where I use www.blinklist.com/andersabrahamsson for discoveries and adding personal snapshot comments and tagging to everyone, where the tag 'sustainopreneurship' signifies directly relevant postings to this blog topic. Links in blog posts just for the sake of echoing is not my thing. If I collect stuff that emerges to the digestable, I tag my Social Bookmarking posting "topost" and "toblog".

#4. Micro-blogging
Just the random whateverness is kept for my Twitter stream found through 'sliceonline' - the 140 characters a post, where the Twitter badge is found in the left sidebar above the "micro-blogging", together with my public calendar.

#5. Other blogs and blogging
I have two other main/professionally related typepad blogs, one on the DJ and music-related stuff ["Joy of Life EDM"] and one other on Tools for creating a sustainable world and for sustainopreneurs (and other -preneurs as well) in action creating leverage for the deeds ["43tools - the Personal Experience"]. In other words - if this blog focuses the 'what' aspect of sustainopreneurship, then 43 Tools focuses the 'how' dimension.

For the deeper aspects of sustainopreneurship in the more academic sense (both why, what and how questions), I blog at the research-oriented iÆREAS blog.

"Me", Anders Abrahamsson:

For the "me"/"about" part, I direct you to my Virtual ID at the top in the right sidebar, typepad about page, Wink ID badge collecting stuff as well, together with the claimID authorization page with the main stuff authorized as coming from me.

Latest, but not least, if you enjoy reading, why not enjoy the music - the blog soundtrack - as well :).

My latest promo is always on-demand podcasted on top at the left-hand sidebar.

OK, thanks for visiting, and hope that you will join the conversation about making the world a better place using creative business organizing as a means!

Take care!

Peace,
Anders

 

• Addendum [Apr 1, 2007, Afternoon CET]: Small edits plus Footer
• Addendum [Apr 3, 2007, Midnight CET]: Note on Google Rank
• Addendum [July 21, 2008, Afternoon CEST]: Update on blogging frequency
  

 

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Friday Night - Everydayness in Radical Transparency

Radix, lat. "root". Double click on the Radix word and Answers.Com snap word explanation shows up. I have it installed, reader.

My screenshot, shared in Total Openness :).

Click to engrande. Me in the 4th line there.

Sharing my Work-a-Music - and my Work-a-Vironment. Tabbed browsing with all the juice needed to set up a mini-site in Swedish for Ignition® pre-launch, to which I devote the greatest deal of passionate energy to get afloat. And yes, talking of which - we got our first truly externally recruited client confirmed the other day, going public yesterday!

So what else to Twitter about this Friday Night than the party music provided by Armin Van  Buuren while they are over at WMC in Miami and joining their spirit at my computer designing around? Yeah - brilliant show, A State of Trance episode 291. The cue list timestamp link with track list of the 2 hours+ mix show was available on the public Twitter page for some seconds (and still at time of writing this post in the newly added Twitter widget I added yesterday to my blog - the badge now at the right above my 30boxes stream, plan vs. reality ha ha).

And yes, reminds me I will update my 43tools blog that has been idle for a while, since I have been deep in discovery route (blog silence is not <=> death, you know) and now I have been adding some new items in my everydayness regular returning acquaitance in my Onlife I cannot live without! Some are found in my social-bookmarking-stream - the "micro blog" here at the left You can also see the Everydayness Toolbar I have collecting my stuff above the Blinklist Toolbar for streamed sharing in the screenshot above.

Where Twitter is my newly found "nano-blog", 140 characters a post, highly irregular and whimsical. And who cares what I am doing? If you ...do. Then RSS this stream, huh :).

http://www.twitter.com/sliceonline

Yours Buzily, towards the Sustainability Open Space year 200X (?).

Cryptic - yeah, sure - Teaser comes before Trailer, but what comes before Teaser? Hinter? Ah, whatever, stay tuned!

Now, the mix is Sander van Doorn and his Essential Mix from 2006 @ Radio 1, UK, from last summer, went on. Time to twitteridee again, Twit twit!

WOW!

Peace,
Anders

PS. No, I don't have a last.fm account ...strange, huh? Why? Later, reader, later. ITMT my two hour mixes through Twitter fills the space :). DS.

"Researching Sustainopreneurship" - my abstract for ISDRS conference June 10-12, 2007, accepted!

This Friday I got a message that my intended contribution to the 13th International Sustainable Development Research Society conference was accepted. The conference stated meta-theme is "Critical Perspectives on Health, Climate Change and Corporate Responsibility".

The conference takes place in Västerås, Sweden - e. g. known for being the home of the "A" in "ABB", Mälardalen University (Mälardalens Högskola) - the first university in Europe to get the environmental management standard ISO 14 001.

The track where I will contribute is track 6: "Entrepreneurship - a key to sustainable development?". My contribution will try to capture one key aspect emerging from the essentials of the learnings of all these years of sustainopreneurship-in-action with the serial sustainopreneurship done through On a Mission, Club PuLS, Ignition and SLICE: Namely what they point to regards suggested research - "how to go on further". It follows naturally from where I ended my last scientifical research paper (defining Sustainopreneurship, blogged here) -  to provide a little bit more in detail of a suggested research agenda.

The title is:

Researching Sustainopreneurship –

conditions, concepts, approaches, arenas and questions

An invitation to authentic sustainability business forces

I have the abstract in a screenshot (click to enlarge) and PDF formats here;

Downloadable:

Abstract_ISDRC_MDH_June2007_Abrahamsson.pdf

Comments and questions are welcome!

Peace,

Anders

 

This blog from one of "2000 bloggers"

Some two weeks ago, Jack Yan was pointing me to an initiative named 2000 bloggers. It was starting out as an initative by a guy called Tino Buntic.  You can read background and why he did it in an interview here.

I thought about it as a way to increase the recognition of the first part of the Long Tail of bloggers and to put more diversity in the blog-o-sphere recognition scheme first and foremost nowadays governed by Technorati, much echoing the voice from Jack Yan about diversity. We cannot know what happens when people try to break into the scheme of the global, nah mostly American, A-list cross-linking top 100 bloggers by having an extension of 2000 linking to a collage of 2000 faces, even if it's on a random basis through a memetic viral spread. For me the pros of increasing diversity and the arena for serendipities is over-weighing the cons of randomness and potential link2me-greediness.

I made an intuitive decision in the first place, and decided that the ideas in my main blog here would be worth a try to be a part of that face-poster. So, the day before yesterday, I got featured.

Not with my name, but with my face, adding to the diversified collage, and the question I got from Ron the other day - "What should you do with 3.5 million dollars?" (as I blogged the other week). And that's great, it got me as issue-oriented (not person-). And just like that - blogging is about Big Questions with many trying to answer them, it is about conversation, it is about expressing views, it is about dialogue. From anyone, not just a number of top-bloggers called the "A-list" or "top 100 bloggers", as for now all too amero-centric.

Who governs who should be an authority on something? Technorati?

No, you.

I think the 2000 bloggers initative is a claim to be a bit subversive to increase the polyvocal and democratic-intended-to-be World-Wide Web, as originally claimed by the innovator TBL, Tim Berners Lee.

"/.../the vision I have for the Web is about anything being potentially connected with anything. It is a vision that provides us with new freedom, and allows us to grow faster than we ever could when we were fettered by the hierarchical classification systems into which we bound our-selves. It leaves the entirety of our previous ways of working as just one tool among many. It leaves our previous fears for the future as one set among many. And it brings the workings of society closer to the workings of our minds.”

The semantic, programmable web is maybe the strongest decentralization and distribution-of-power, democratic engine we've seen to date. And thus a tool that opens up the spaces for sustainopreneurship in action.

Keep it rollin! And thanks, Tino and the 2kbloggers team for getting me among the other 1 999 voices!

"Power to the People" / John Lennon

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For links about the conversation pros/cons the 2000 blogger's meme;
"Subversive Bloggers" from Devious Diva
"I don't deserve this Technorati Rank (and the other 1,999 of don't either)" from Jeremiah Owyang

Finally: Good thing we have blogs and webs. Otherwise these expressions never came out to our shared space. Right?

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