[quote style=”boxed”]Having worked in Japan right out of University I am a fan of management by consensus for the most part. It takes more time to get buy-in but through the process the idea is shaped and improved and everyone has input. So if the idea succeeds, we all feel…
[quote style=”boxed”]The way I see it, If you can imagine it then you can probably create it. However, I also realize that good ideas are rarely attributable to one person but are built on ideas that other people have had and which have become part of our own toolbox.[/quote] A…
Meet Stuart Gold – Managing Director of the Trashy Bags Project
Jody Sherman co-founded ecomom.com in 2009 out of a desire to help moms with the myriad decisions they face on a daily basis. Sherman felt that helping them sort through the confusing and often misleading information about what is safe to put in, on, and around their families would be…
Commonstudio is an emerging design practice engaging in interdisciplinary approaches to objects, systems, tools, and spaces with an emphasis on issues of urban ecology, social enterprise, and adaptive reuse. Greenaid is an initiative that converts gumball machines into seedbomb dispensers for a more fun and accessible way to beautify the…
Juha Koponen has a D.Sc. degree in Technical Physics from Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, (2000) and he was a research fellow in Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany where he conducted experiments with a fusion reactor. He also worked in 1994 for a few months in CERN, Switzerland doing diagnostics software for the…
Romain Gaillard was born in Paris, France. After obtaining a master’s degree at EDHEC Business School and at LSE, he started working between San Francisco and Toronto. Over the years in Silicon Valley, he participated in several ventures as adviser or co-founder. From Web advertising and social networks to security…
Pat Ford was born in Nebraska in 1948 and grew up in Idaho. He attended Columbia University in New York City and fled just short of graduation into some years of hibernation. At some point the Idahoan by accident became one by choice. He went to work for the Idaho…
Meet Pat Ford – Executive Director of Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition
Scott Hed is the founder and Director of the Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska (SAA). The SAA is a program of the Alaska Conservation Foundation, an Anchorage-based non-profit. Scott’s background isn’t what one would typically expect when thinking of someone involved in conservation advocacy. But it’s a neat story. Scott grew…
Meet Scott Hed – Director of the Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska
Ryan Cruse is an avid outdoorsman and environmentalist who is constantly trying to blur the lines between fun, work and doing good. He is the co-founder and director of outreach and education for Warm Current, a nonprofit whose mission is to promote fun, learning and sense of place by distributing…
Jim Moriarty is the CEO of the Surfrider Foundation and an innovative leader in the environmental and action sports communities. From a skateboarding punk-rock kid to an architect of the early days of e-commerce, Moriarty is obsessed with building companies and organizations around notable and world-altering ideas. Jim’s job as…