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What does sustainable design mean to you?

05.26.2010
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It’s always nice to see a good tradition develop. The third SHIFT: A Green Salon, a quarterly, Ignite Portland-inspired, slightly modified pecha kucha by AIGA Portland took place last night at Ecotrust. SHIFT asks the seemingly simple question from this post’s title. As at the 2nd SHIFT, back in February, the 10 presenters’ answers varied along the execution-concept [...]

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Out now: “Age of Conversation 3″

05.11.2010
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These are the crowdsourcing times. On Earth Day, I contributed a piece to the 3six5 project. Last week also saw the opening of the call for contributors to “The Portland Bottom Line”. And just yesterday you saw a summary of the 3rd Beyond 2020 Unconference. Today it’s my pleasure to join editors Drew McLellan and Gavin Heaton in announcing [...]

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Report: 3rd Beyond 2020 Sustainability Unconference

05.10.2010
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I now understand completely why the head of the International Olympic Committee can say about each Games that it was the best Olympics in history. The third Beyond 2020 Sustainability Unconference took place last Thursday, May 6th, at KEEN, and it was the best Beyond 2020 so far. The success of an event like this [...]

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What’s your passion project?

05.06.2010
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Conversations with fellow solopreneurs almost inevitably steer to side projects. Everyone seems to pursue an endeavor that’s to some degree related to their core business and that takes time away from it, but does not generate revenue. At the reception following last week’s ReVisioning Value 2010 conference, the topic of side projects came up as I [...]

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ReVisioning Value 2010: Circling back to the market

04.29.2010

On Monday, April 26th, 2010, I participated as member of the media team in the ReVisioning Value 2010 conference, organized by Springboard Innovation and Social Enterprises. This is the second of two resulting guest posts, coming up on the Springboard Innovation Blog. Also read my take on social ventures, “Is social enterprise the ultimate sustainable organization?” *** ReVisioning Value 2010 attendee [...]

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Coming up: ReVisioning Value 2010 conference

04.17.2010
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Semiosis Communications is a proud community partner of the ReVisioning Value 2010 conference (“ReVV”), themed “The Intersection of Purpose and Profit”. Presented by Springboard Innovation, ReVV takes place on April 26th and 27th. I’ll be blogging from the event! About ReVisioning Value ReVV 2010 will bring together leaders from the varied fields of impact investing [...]

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April 9th is Pay It Forward Day

04.07.2010
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This Friday, April 9th, Rose City Mortgage Specialists and other Portland businesses, including yours truly, will Pay It Forward out in the community. A number of other Portland businesses plan on joining the day and commit deliberate acts of random kindness.  I hope you can too! Ideas for paying it forward, from Rose City Mortgage’s [...]

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