Mark Maynard | Sustainability

Marjorie Kelly on the emergence of the generative economy

By Mark | May 28, 2012

I suspect I’ll give up after a few days, as my memory fades, and my enthusiasm wanes, but, for the foreseeable future, I’d like to keep sharing tidbits that I picked up during the recent BALLE conference, on the subject of strengthening local business ecosystems. Tonight, I’d like to share my notes on the presentation [...]

Posted in Economics, Uncategorized | Also tagged BALLE, bonds, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, business ethics, business models, business owners who get it, business philosophy, co-ops, Cutting Edge Capital, deforestation, ethics, generative economy, Global Warming, human scale, joy, lobster, Maine, Marjorie Kelly, Mexico, mission shares, Novo Nordisk, ownership, Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution, Tellus Institute, vision statements, Washington Post | 4 Comments

Accelerating Community Capital (part one)… at the BALLE 2012 conference

By Mark | May 17, 2012

I spent the day in Grand Rapids, participating in a workshop on new models that are evolving for local businesses to raise capital from lenders, investors and donors, at the 10th annual conference of the Business Alliance for Living Local Economies (BALLE). What follow are my rough notes, for those of you who care about [...]

Posted in Economics, entrepreneurism, Uncategorized | Also tagged Awaken Café, BALLE, big box retail, biomimicry, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, Capital Institute, Capitalism, Catskills, Co-op Power, co-ops, Common Market, cool local initiatives, Coop Power, credit unions, crowdfunding, CSA, Cutting Edge Capital, Direct Public Offerings, Don Shaffer, Equal Exchange, Erin Kilmer Neel, financial reform, financing local companies, general store, Harlem, investing, investing in the future, Jenny Kassan, Jobs Act, John Fullerton, JPMorgan Chase, liquidity, Little City Gardens, Local Economies Project, local economy, local investing, Localvesting, Lynn Benander, Marty Gay, Michael Shuman, Michelle Long, micro-financing, Move Your Money Project, move your money to a credit union, New World Foundation, Oakland, off-grid, personal finances, Port Townsend, Port Townsend LION, Quimper Mercantile Company, regenerative capitalism, resilience, resiliency, RSF Social Finance, SCOR, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Slow Money, Small Company Offering Registration, South Bronx, startup investing, unaccredited investors, Washington State, what is wealth, White Dog Cafe | 12 Comments

Johnny Lupinacci on this week’s “Activism and Education: A Celebration at EMU” activities

By Mark | March 18, 2012

I just heard about a big student activism event taking place this Thursday and Friday on the campus of EMU, and reached out the organizers with a few questions. What follows is my exchange with EMU doctoral student Johnny Lupinacci. MARK: Can you tell me a little about this event coming up at EMU? JOHNNY: [...]

Posted in Education, Environment, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 100 years ago today, ableism, activism, Activism and Education: A Celebration at EMU, Ann Arbor Free School, Ann Arbor Free Skool, apathy, Aric McBay, baby boomers, Bringing Down Civilization, Civilization and Resistance, community activism, community building, consumerism, decolonization, Deep Green Resistance, Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet, Derrick Jensen, Earth Liberation Front, Eastern Michigan University, eco justice, EcoEats, education reform, EMU, EMU College of Education, Erica Mooney, Fabayo Manzira, fear, G.R.E.E.N., Generation X, GenX, global climate change, hip hop, If A Tree Falls, individualism, isolation, Janine Palms, Jean Twenge, John Lupinacci, Johnny Lupinacci, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Lierre Keith, local food, Malik Yakini, Millennials, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Ypsilanti, Orion, permaculture, Porter Lecture, racism, radical sustainability, Reskilling Festival, S.E.P.E., seedbombs, self-interest, sexism, social justice, speciesm, student activism, students today aren't worth a damn, Superhero Training Academy | 11 Comments

Tea Party derails green projects, calling them U.N. plots, and exposes NYT journalism failings in the process

By Mark | February 5, 2012

Remember how, a few weeks ago, the Public Editor of the New York Times, Arthur Brisbane, wrote a column inexplicably asking if it should be the job of journalists to be “truth vigilantes,” as though there were other legitimate options to be weighed in this highly-politicized, post-reality world in which we find ourselves today? Well, [...]

Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged activism, Agenda 21, American Planning Association, American Policy Center, benito.strauss, bike lanes, carbon emissions, conspiracy theories, fair and balanced, gompa, green jobs, journalism, Maine, manipulation of the stupid, Newt Gingrich, public transportation, stupid Americans, tea party, Tea Partyfication, the future of journalism, the sad state of journalism, Tom DeWeese, truth vigilantes, United Nations, urban planning, world order | 13 Comments

Ypsi Immigration Interview: Alexandra Sarkozy

By Mark | January 30, 2012

A former Ypsilanti resident, who, the last I heard, had gotten married and run off to become a farmer in Hawaii, sent me a short, cryptic message a few weeks back, suggesting that I look up a friend of his who just moved to Ypsilanti, and interview her as part of our Ypsi Immigration Interview [...]

Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Alexandra Sarkozy, Anthology Film Archives, architecture, Brooklyn, Chavella's, Depot Town, farmers market, Growing Hope, hacker space, independent bookstores, independent press, Indian restaurants, Issue Project Room, Kalamazoo, Kevin Dole, Prospect park, public transportation, retail in Ypsilanti, third spaces, thrift stores, tool library, Transition Ypsilanti, Unnameable Books, walkable downtown, Ypsi Food Co-op, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews, Ypsilanti District Library, Ypsilanti Historical Society | 10 Comments

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Marjorie Kelly on the emergence of the generative economy

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