Archive for 'ecological thinking'

Six steps to success as a sustainable Small Business...

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Guest Blogger Darren Hoad

Small businesses in the creative industries are often unsung heroes of sustainability. Inspirational they may be, their challenges, especially, global ones, are immense.

The Power of the Spiritual

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Kathryn Alexander

What is the purpose of business? How does that purpose connect with the human heart and with the terrible crisis we are now facing?

A Story of Two Leaders

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Kathryn Alexander

As leaders we make our own world AND we make the world for others. What kind of world are we making?

Getting Emotional About Business

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Kathryn Alexander

What kind of business gets me really jazzed?

Emergence: the “Feminine” in Business

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Kathryn Alexander

Are we looking for creativity in all of the wrong places? We are seeking resilience, but perhaps it is lying dormant, just waiting for us to allow for its emergence. How do leaders evoke emergence?

The Call of the Wild

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Kathryn Alexander

Historically, nature has informed our way of thinking in many ways. As we move into cities where will our inspiration and learning come from?

Finding Our Strength

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Kathryn Alexander

When I first moved to Colorado, fourteen years ago in 1998, the winters were fierce. I remember walking my dog, Jake, in blowing snowstorms, with wind so strong it would take your breath away – latterly. I walked with double layers of pants, long underwear, heavy boots and socks and a scarf over my face so I could breathe. As I walked I pictured the paintings I’d seen of American Indians on the prairie in blowing snow, backs to the wind. Those days are gone.

Our Achilles Heel

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Kathryn Alexander

I’ve been an organizational change consultant for most of my working life. The organizational development (OD) community was on fire when I first got exposed to it. The field was young and people were going from helping people work together better to learning how to make the whole organization work better. Those in the field were writing papers and books with new insights coming out weekly, it seemed.

Discovering Regenerative Businesses

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Kathryn Alexander

The current crop of sustainability oriented companies are reducing resource use, and that will give us time, but we need to rethink how we interact with nature to prevent a reoccurrence of the situation we now face. These companies are leading the way!

The Magic of Limits

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Kathryn Alexander

Most people resist limits. I believe that it is our resistance to limits that makes us feel justified in trashing the planet. We don’t like no stinkin’ limits!

Can We be Sustainable without Reverence?

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Kathryn Alexander

I've been watching a DVD made to share the wonder that was Thomas Berry. The first Geologian, he spent his life working to bring back or reignite the wonder of nature that lies latent in our hearts.

Natural Selection and Your Company

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Kathryn Alexander

In nature natural selection is a process that is seen as something that increases what works by eliminating that which doesn’t work. In nature what ‘works’ is what can survive to reproduce. How does that apply to business and specifically to your organization?

Our Thinking Shapes Our Reality

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Kathryn Alexander

I often talk about ‘thinking differently’ and people sagely nod their heads, but I always leave feeling that no one understood. ‘Thinking differently’ is a little like pulling one’s self up by the proverbial bootstraps. How do you do it and were do you stand?

What can Business Learn from the New Cities?

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Kathryn Alexander

The wise use of technology, sustainable values and common sense can resurrect cities and with them give the human species a new chance at Life.

The Heartland Institute’s Climate Change Debacle

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Kathryn Alexander

Chicanery in the name of free speech to undermine science is dangerous, corruptive and confusing. Why would people play games with other people's lives in such a fashion?

Limits to Charity

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Kathryn Alexander

Which will save the world: charity or capitalism? Neville Isdell, former CEO of Coke a Cola, says it's going to be "Connected Capitalism."

Triple Bottom Line – CSR & Greenwashing

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Kathryn Alexander

The Triple Bottom Line and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) are pieces and parts - when will we begin to see the whole so we can keep our integrity intact?

Whitney Houston and Viktor Frankel

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Kathryn Alexander

People say they want to live, but their actions are all about ‘being saved,’ they are not taking action from their own convictions, and in some cases they even avoid acting in ways that would heal them. Why? Why does life seem devoid of meaning?

Greenwashing from Green Mountain?

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Kathryn Alexander

Profit or the Precautionary Principle? When will we take ourselves and the Planet seriously?

Growth – the Holy Grail of the 21st Century

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Kathryn Alexander

If we stopped growing and chose to evolve instead - what would that look like? Growth is something we must get a handle on. We are chasing a disaster.

Restoration, Resilience, Rethinking

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Kathryn Alexander

When will we learn that our wealth is tied up in the land and that we only thrive when the land is healthy?

Can Beauty Save Us?

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Kathryn Alexander

What are we sacrificing for the love of oil?

Remembering

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Kathryn Alexander

Dr. Martian Luther King, in his talk on the Network of Mutuality, speaks most eloquently on the need for peace. His sentiments apply equally well to our treatment of the Earth.

CAN we meet our needs and those of the future?

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Kathryn Alexander

Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of stewardship, the responsible management of resource use.

Happy New Year – Almost!

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Kathryn Alexander

Were are we going, as a species, as a business community and as Ethical Impact L3C?

Sustainability, Change and Resilience

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Kathryn Alexander

Life has managed to effectively evolve in quantity and complexity for about 3.8 billion years ? that's sustainable. The issue for the human species (and many others) is can we continue to extend our sojourn on this planet beyond the about 5 million year run we've had so far?

Stepping Out Against, and Stepping On - GMOs

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Kathryn Alexander

Boulder is a county that has made a reputation for valuing and loving nature and health. This particular issue (GMO planting) has some poignant aspects: farmers have given their land to open space expecting to be able to farm it;