Category Archives: People

UBC Sauder Alumni Mag Profile

November 29, 2011 – 3:24 pm

I am thrilled and honored to be featured alongside Ryan Beedie, Gregg Saretsky, and Livia Mahler in the current UBC Sauder School of Business alumni magazine cover story on entrepreneurship and innovation. What company! I hope to accomplish half of what they have been able to achieve in their careers. Here’s to the many other [...]

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Port 2050: Vancouver scenario planning

November 28, 2011 – 1:46 pm

Robin Silvester, CEO of Port Metro Vancouver, gave the annual address at the Vancouver Board of Trade and wrote an op-ed in the Vancouver Sun on the subject of long range planning and the implications of four future scenarios for the Greater Vancouver Gateway region. The scenarios were part of a Port Metro Vancouver initiative [...]

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Engineering Serendipity with Kris Krug

July 23, 2011 – 12:55 pm

Kris Krug is a photographer extraordinaire, social media documentarian, and global nomad who splits time between Vancouver, nearby Galiano Island, and the rest of the world. He was most recently in the South Pacific, documenting videographer Chris Jordan’s film on plastic pollution in the oceans, Midway. We met up on one of the rare days [...]

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A Few Key People

June 10, 2011 – 10:55 am

I keep coming back to Mark Suster’s Techcrunch/BothSides article — just great advice about new venture management and jumpstarting regional technology ecosystems. I finally decided to just reproduce the whole thing here for my own easy reference. Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. [...]

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Adapt

May 31, 2011 – 3:14 pm

Tim Harford is a Financial Times columnist and the presenter of Radio 4′s More or Less, which won the Royal Statistical Society’s 2010 award for statistical excellence in broadcast journalism. He is also the author of several books, including The Undercover Economist. His latest is Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure. Cory Doctorow: First [...]

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Connecting Social Innovators in Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland

December 5, 2010 – 11:22 pm

I facilitated a session at the Wiring the Social Economy unconference in Vancouver yesterday about connecting social innovators around the Cascadia bioregion. Specifically, the discussion focused on how best to connect folks working on similar issues in Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland. Lots of great folks showed up and offered their thoughts — thanks to everyone who [...]

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Whole Systems Design

December 3, 2010 – 4:51 pm

Focusing on fixing small things, and not looking at the whole system, is a chronic issue among humans. Engineers and designers just happen to be the ones who make decisions that determine the energy used in your house, your transportation, or the materials in your electronics. Our partners at the Rocky Mountain Institute have been [...]

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The Worldchanging Book: Revised and Updated

November 21, 2010 – 8:58 pm

We are extremely pleased to be able to announce the new edition of Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century, to be released this spring (and already available for discount pre-order at Powell’s, Barnes and Noble, Borders and Amazon). via worldchanging.com The new edition of the Worldchanging book is out — congrats to Alex [...]

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Marine conservation area boundary proposal is based on Inuit oral history

November 13, 2010 – 1:57 pm

Now, in a bid to assert Inuit interests in protecting Lancaster Sound as both a species-rich ecosystem and as an important hunting resource, a group representing several Baffin-area communities — in collaboration with federal archivists and the Montreal-based environmental consultancy Strata360 — have converted mountains of recordings, interview transcripts, hand-drawn maps and other documents into [...]

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Aung San Suu Kyi is free

November 13, 2010 – 11:54 am

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