There is a view of farmers that I believe seriously undervalues their value, in the bigger scheme of things. I’ve thought this for a long time. It goes back to my early years living on my late Dad’s farm. He grew crops and raised pigs for market. Yet; he was also a German Jewish intellectual, […]
West Coast Wave Collaboration Project: An innovative cross-sector partnership
January 25, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
I live on an island (Vancouver Island) surrounded by ocean. Oceans make up over 70% of the Earth’s surface. Our proximity to this abundant resource is obvious. The energy-giving capacity of that resource is less clear. To better understand what that capacity is, the West Coast Wave Collaboration Project (WCWCP) kicked-off in June 2009. This […]
Rakunks, Hybrid Jobs, Learning Agents, and other speculations on the future
January 11, 2010 by · 1 Comment
Just finished reading Margaret Atwood‘s new book The Year of the Flood, what Atwood describes as speculative fiction. She is one of my favourite writers, a Booker Prize winner, and still writing incredible stories at the age of 70! Most of the Flood story takes place in the dystopic near future, in which there aren’t […]
Leading innovation – More insights from the 2009 IdeaConnection interviews
January 3, 2010 by · 2 Comments
A couple of weeks back, I posted 39 Insights into the makeup of innovative teams: From the 2009 IdeaConnection interviews. The insights I extracted after reading approximately 50 interviews, with leading innovation authors, on IdeaConnection, a company that connects business to creative and innovative people, from around the world. The majority of the interviews were […]
