But I am not sure that I feel fine. Why not? Well, read on and find out. When people talk about what books they are reading, I listen. If I hear more than one person mention a book, I figure that it’s something I need to read. When I hear more than one person that I admire mention a book, I read the book within the next month. The End of Growth: Adapting to our New Economic Reality by Richard Heinberg (Amazon affiliate link) is one of the latter. Will Rapp, who started Gardener’s Supply and about a thousand other businesses in Vermont, and Will Patten, who used to be the Executive Director at VBSR both referenced this book within a day of each other a couple of weeks ago, so I picked it up and read it as soon as I had the chance. I am
I recently picked up Adam Werbach's Strategy For Sustainability, and liked it enough to do a video book review. I think the book is worth picking up if you are a sustainability professional, a business owner, or want to learn more about how to actually get sustainability stuff accomplished in your community. Definitely worth picking up. Check out the review over on YouTube for more information on why!
I have just gotten back from a great class session at Antioch and wanted to share some of the interesting stuff that we talked about tonight. Our course focuses on "Green IT" challenges, and tonight we talked about the IT challenges a multi-generational workforce presents. We had a conference call with Rob Salkowitz, author of Generation Blend which focuses on these challenges. There were two stories shared tonight that I thought were worth passing on. The first is an example of a challenge that technology cannot fix. The second is an example of a challenge that only technology could fix. Identifying Potholes Only Gets You So Far Technology and connectivity has progressed beyond the ability of the underlying infrastructure to support it. Our ability to connect at any time, anywhere, with anyone on the planet has made it possible for communication to be instant - but our ability to
