Social Enterprise Presentation Earthship Build

Dec 4, 2013 | Musings

A few weeks ago, I was invited to give a talk at an earthship workshop organized by Terraeden Biotecture. The opportunity presented itself rapidly so there wasn’t much time to prepare, but I persisted as best I could. I decided it would be most valuable if I...

Permaculture Design Course Day 10 : Strategies for an Alternative Global Nation

Oct 15, 2013 | Learning, Musings

The final day of our course. We spent much of the day working diligently on our group permaculture design projects. Our design felt very intuitive and it really emerged from the nature of the landscape. We focused on getting the mainframe design of all the components...

Travel and Experience is the Mother of all Education

Jul 15, 2013 | Learning, Musings

I’ve been blessed with a wealth of experience in my life- they’ve taught me everything I remember and helped chisel me into the person I am today. I’m blessed that my parents even let me go chase most of these wild experiences, I guess it got easier...

Jun 19, 2012 | buy positively, Musings

theadventureproject: Even during the dry season, Johnson, based in rural Kenya, is able to produce a crop to feed his family and earn an income. Learn more at...

One For One ≠ Social Impact

Apr 14, 2012 | buy positively, Musings

The Broken “Buy-One, Give-One” Model: 3 Ways To Save Toms Shoes Written by: Cheryl Davenport via FastCoExist (Illustration via GOOD) Toms has built a popular brand around the buy-one, give-one model. But two critical flaws in that model threaten to undo its social...