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LOHAS Philosophy of the Future
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
LOHAS – Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability
A holistic philosophy on products, services, businesses, organizations, and humanity as a whole that advocates growth and change through systems thinking. I recently found an amazing write up at the LOHAS website about how this philosophy will help the business culture of the future.
Here’s my favorite excerpt:
“For the last 250 years, we have been living in what Peter Senge calls the ‘industrial age bubble’, based on a ‘take, make, waste’ worldview. Behind this way of life has been a set of attitudes and beliefs about economics, wealth, and business. We tend to think of these beliefs as “common sense”, or even as objective natural law. But in fact, they are received knowledge, the inheritance of centuries of cultural, political, and philosophical tradition. Our way of business is based on learned behavior, not natural law.
With this worldview, we’ve created unprecedented wealth, knowledge and communication. And, we’ve created environmental toxicity, cheap throw away products, denatured industrially-produced food, and a culture of low self-esteem and spiritual poverty.”
So how do we change? How do we grow?
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Tags: About, bio-inspiration, Biodynamic agriculture, ecolism, Energy, God, LOHAS, Natural law, News, oneness, Peter Senge, philosophy, Spirituality, sustainability
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Recycle Bank
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Here’s a company that’s doing something very special. I watched Ron’s presentation at VLAB (MIT/Stanford Venture Lab) Green Tech for the Consumer Market this past January and got very excited. Then after hearing Trae Vassallo’s glowing presentation at the Silicon Valley West Coast Green conference, I knew they were out to change the world.
Tags: Austin Energy, Bed Bath & Beyond, clean tech, Coca Cola, Coca-Cola Company, Energy, garbage, Kleiner Perkins, KPCB, Marketing, material recovery facilities, MRF, News, Pepsi, Recycle Bank, Recycling, RFID, single stream recycling, sustainability, Trae Vasallo, VLAB, Whole Foods
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Toasting Obama and the Future
Sunday, November 9th, 2008

Beacons of Hope
In 1994, when Nelson Mandela was elected president of my country, I remember an age of jubilation that was infused into children, adults and people from overseas alike. Backpackers would come to our country with Mandela t-shirts, and when we traveled abroad and told people we were South African we were somehow associated with a little bit of that Mandela magic and people were that little bit more welcoming. With Mandela in power, the dominant feeling was that no matter what happened – things were going to be okay.
In the past 8 years that formative optimism of the Mandela years had left me, and I found myself in the midst of a new generation of cynicism kicked off by the Clinton impeachment, followed by the stealing of the election in Gore v. Bush, and the subsequent anomalies of extraordinary rendition, water-boarding and the abomination that is Sarah Palin. When Gore released his movie, Inconvenient Truth, only then did the world realise what could have been – if only America had fought a little harder in 2000.
When I woke up on Wednesday the 6th of November, after 18 months of watching this election, I realised the enormity of what has happened. As I showered a feeling of relief washed over me and I knew that the page has been turned. (more…)
Tags: a new millenium, election, excitement, future, gore v bush, grass roots optimisim, hope, mandela, News, obama, toasting
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West Coast Green – How my life changed this week
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Tags: About, clean tech, eco-capitalism, Energy, global conciousness, News, renewable energy, sustainability, west coast green
Posted in Art, Business, Culture, Design, Dining, Energy, Events, Family, Food, Industry, Labels, Lifestyle, Love, Marketing, Millennials, Music, News, Passion, Stories, Technology, Thoughts, Travel, Wine/11 | Comments Off
A toast to the downfall of Lehman brothers,
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
As a wine drinker and wine lover it has been hard not to be rather cheered up by the images of Lehman Brothers employees walking out of their office with boxes in hand shouting trite like ‘you’re watching history, man’ at journalists. Call this bitter, jealous or misunderstood – but is wine not about sour grapes? And if it’s true that wine is sour grapes then it is also true that it is sour grapes that become more palatable over time, and like my seemingly cynical cheer at the demise of City bankers such an opinion will also become more palatable over time. The reason I believe this is because of one thing that society has temporarily forgotten: value.
Tags: back to basics, creating value, downfall of Lehman, future, increased value of art, Lehman Brothers out of touch, News, sustainability, unbelievable greed, value of wine
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