Growing returns in clean technology by Jon Guice, Jaclyn Pitera and Anneke Hohl – 6.9.10 Among all the nations of the world, the United States has an extraordinarily large and well-developed venture capital sector. Business-plan competitions play an established role in the industry: by vetting companies seeking venture funding they introduce pre-qualified entrepreneurs to investors [...]
Asheville-based Sensible City, Inc. is a business development firm with a twist. Founder Ian Bryan, 35, eschews traditional PR models in favor of what he calls community-oriented marketing.
Sensible City invests from its profits each month into microfinance projects throughout the developing world via kiva.org. We encourage you to join us in these efforts!
Did you know that the Cleantech Open is convening its first National Conference?
Join DOE Under Secretary Kristina Johnson, Ron Gonen, Lesa Mitchell and Jon Ortmans, along with the who’s who of Silicon Valley Clean Tech on July 22.
Asheville sure can be a “versus” town sometimes. City slickers vs. county folks. Developers vs. neighborhood groups. Hippie activists vs. bellicose bureaucrats. You know the drill. There’s too much focus on our differences. So I’m always intrigued when there’s an effort to search for what Asheville residents have in common. Enter Asheville-based Barrett Values Centre. [...]
From Ian Bryan, Sensible City President and TEDxDenverED Curator: Have you ever witnessed the power of many – from around the world – coming together to align around a specific goal? A goal to nurture and evolve what matters most? That feeling of humility and awe has characterized the spirit of our team at Sensible [...]
An audio exploration of Tree Sound and Rock Star Farms worth sharing. Paul Diaz: “I was just joking with a friend of mine who is a hip-hop producer and I was like, Dude, you’re a hip-hop producer and I am a beet farmer…” Hip-Hop and environmental action. Tree Sound Studios in Atlanta combine both, so [...]
Van Jones is an eco-visionary, award-winning human rights attorney and powerhouse speaker. He is the founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC), a strategy and action center, working for justice, peace, and opportunity in urban America. He has served on the boards of numerous environmental and nonprofit organizations, including the National Apollo [...]
Seven-Star, a Sensible City Partner and the world’s largest green event production company, provides a behind the scenes story of greening Live Earth Rio. Live Earth Rio achieved a total waste diversion of over 85% – 15 metric tons of recycling and organics were diverted from landfill.
Award-winning identical Fullerton twin authors Brianna and Brittany Winner, who wrote the novel “The Strand Prophecy” along with their father, Jeff, announced the start of their national tour, “If You Can Dream It, You Can Write It!” at a school assembly tour to promote reading and writing in elementary and secondary schools. The 13-year-old co-authors told the students [...]
So what do you do when you have 16 inches of snow, no power, no internet, no heat, very few candles, no extra batteries and no ability to hop in the car and go buy supplies? This weekend in Western North Carolina, I was again reminded that social media is transforming our world for the [...]
Our friends at TEDxAsheville dropped in a report on this weekend’s event. Apparently they were turning crowds away at the door. Congratulations, all! Have a visit: link.
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