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Our Sustainable Future
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
With Obama elected, the world has gained a renewed faith in America. A faith that we understand what needs to be done and finally have the courage to act. To become the change agents that the world needs. We’re no longer afraid of coming together, of breaking cultural, racial, and religious barriers. We’re ready to begin a new age of humanity.
For those of you who’ve been reading our blog for awhile, you know we’ve focused on wine as a unifier in the sustainable development of our lives. We’ve woven it into the core values of economic, social, and environmental health in an effort to exemplify its unifying power. The GrapeThinking passion has always been to create a sustainable world, and we feel the time is now to grow from our wine roots.
Tags: About, clean tech, drinking party, elixir, Energy, faith, incubator, obama, organic food, Plato, renewable energy, sustainability, Sustainable development, Symposium
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Terracycle Pioneers Eco-Capitalism
Monday, October 13th, 2008
These guys are “growing a better world” and in essence pioneering eco-capitalism. I’m convinced this is going to sweep the nation and the world and become the new evolved form of economics and governance. Terracycle collects and buys all types of waste products that would otherwise go into a landfill, and then upcycles these resources into new products that can be reintroduced into the marketplace and sold for a profit. It’s so simple, and yet the way it should be. No more landfills, no more waste, no more garbage… no more linear supply chain. Create a renewable world! This is what the movement of our times is all about. You gotta love the current crash… beyond the short term pain, it’s going to give us the much needed humility and clarity that we so desparately need to become enlightened to the harmony that exists between man and nature.
Tags: clean tech, eco-capitalism, recycle, reuse, Rotary Composter, sustainability, terracyle, used corks, water storage, wine barrels
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Ecovative Design Wins PICNIC Green Challenge 2008!
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
I’m so excited for our friends at Ecovative Design. They have recently won the € 500,000 grand prize at the PICNIC Green Challenge in Amsterdam a few weeks ago. I’m absolutely ecstatic for Eben and his partners!
Tags: clean tech, Ecovative Design, Energy, Greensulate, grow, insulator, living product, mycelium, PICNIC Green Challenge, sustainability, sustainable products, zero emissions
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Village Green Energy
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Being the eco-biz of the grape thinkers, I have to say, I’ve finally come across a company that completely resonates with what we’re all about.
Village Green Energy is a really cool startup that is buying renewable energy certificates, also known as RECs, from a regulated marketplace of solar fields, wind farms, and other renewable energy producers, in which they compete with utility companies and then broker the RECs to a variety of partners. A few wineries just so happen to be some of their first customers, our friends over at Windsor Vineyards and Girard being one of them. VGE is also doing some clever things with consumer particpatory apps and programs that gain marketable exposure to the partner businesses, thus giving them greater incentive to purchase the RECs from Village Green.
Tags: clean tech, Energy, Green My Vino, RECs, renewable energy certificates, sustainability, village green energy
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West Coast Green – How my life changed this week
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Wow, what an excellent conference! A game changer. I have to thank my friends over at Village Green Energy for hooking me up with a free pass. I’ve been so passionate about this movement as long as I can remember… ever since 6th grade when I messed around with electromagenetic fields and plants. Early education for me was all about ecology and environment, and that followed with rigorous economics in college, which I didn’t quite understand about myself until now. Having not gone into banking with my degree and now seeing the state of the economy I was like shit… but David Suzuki put it so clearly… it’s (eco)nomics. I can’t believe I never recognized that. I automatically associated economics with the greedy, short-sighted mentality of Wall Street that focuses solely on the bottom line and exploiting the market for cash and egoic status. Yet you realize the bottom line is not the statement of cash flows or the balance sheet… it’s the fuckin planet. Ecology + Economics = Sustainability. This conference was absolutely buzzing! People were feeling alive and connecting and touching each other like I’ve never seen in my life. We all knew the green revolution is ready and about to change the world in a big way.
Tags: About, clean tech, eco-capitalism, Energy, global conciousness, News, renewable energy, sustainability, west coast green
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