Although I won’t be joining my family this year (I was there last year), my grandparents have once again traveled to McAllen, Texas, joined by various aunts, uncles and cousins, to build houses with Proyecto Azteca. The local news picked up on the story, check out the TV coverage and this article: Like modern-day heroes [...]
There’s a big campaign going on right now to “Move Your Money” from the huge national banks to local/regional banks, the logic being that the big guys caused the financial crisis and, if we take our money out off their balance sheets, they’ll be forced to change their ways. You’ll also, on average, get better [...]
I recently finished a book about called Bucky Works which is a fascinating introduction into the life and ideas of Buckminster Fuller, who was roughly 100 years ahead of his time. Ideas about sustainability, design and approach that apply to pretty much any industry and technology — and are just now gaining traction. Here’s the [...]
I read a fascinating article this weekend from Newsweek called “Why We Believe Lies, Even When We Learn the Truth,” on a study completed by sociologist Steven Hoffman at the University of Buffalo. Here’s the gist of it: Some people form and cling to false beliefs about health-care reform (or Obama’s citizenship) despite overwhelming evidence [...]
In Friday’s Wall Street Journal James Altucher wrote a column entitled The Internet Is Dead (As an Investment): The days of infinite margins, 1,000% productivity gains, and growth of market throughout the universe are long over. Internet companies now should be treated, at best, like utility companies that get bought at about 10 times earnings [...]
I ran into Mindy Schlegel in Shipshewana last evening and it reminded me of this photo which I’ve been meaning to blog about. Mindy was my business partner in my first business, Everblue Media, LLC, which we started while I was a senior and Mindy had just graduated from Goshen College. Mindy and I had [...]
Based out of New York, Echoing Green is essentially a venture capital firm supporting social entrepreneurs. They also have a RedPost/Kit sculpture in their lobby. Just minutes ago, they announced their 2009 Fellows, all of them “ready to spark change around the world, in areas such as civil and human rights, education and youth leadership, [...]
Last week, I had the privilege (along with 900 other people) to hear Bill McKibben speak at Goshen College as part of the Yoder Public Affairs lecture series. For those of you in the green world, Bill’s a household name, for those of you not, you need to find out more about what he’s up [...]
Here’s the audio of Nate Feltman’s speech I blogged about last week.
I’m in Texas for a week with my mom, 2 aunts and uncle, cousins and grandparents to build houses with Proyecto Azteca (an organization similar to Habitat for Humanity). This is a family tradition — my grandparents, who are now 82 and 80, have for about 20 years gone to Immokalee, Florida, Southern Texas, or [...]
