Douglas Campbell, Co-Founder of Mindshare LA & Syyn Labs / Volcanoes, Earthquakes and the Driest Desert in the World
Gerard Minakawa - Founder, Bamboo DNA / Building with Bamboo, A World Changing MaterialBenjamin Bidlack - Engagement Director, Innovation Protocol / The Hero’s Journey in Everyday Life
PARKING Parking is available in lots surrounding the venue,
including the lot right at 8th and Spring St., adjacent to the venue. NOTE: The parking lot directly next to the venue is $10, the one across the street should only be $5.
IN THE PRESS
Mindshare’s ballooning popularity is emblematic of generation steeped in chaos and an unabashed need for personal fulfillment. If you ever come to LA, come to Mindshare.
–Fast Company
If you haven’t been to a Mindshare LA event, you haven’t seen Angelenos at their eclectic best.
–FlavorPill
A forward-thinking cultural salon. New ideas flow as liberally as the alcohol.
–Brand X
This is what it would be like if the internet jumped out of the box and grabbed your arm for a trip into Alice’s Wonderland of ideas and madmen.
–KCET Online (LA PBS affiliate)
A forum for human technology in its most literal form - shared knowledge. Fueled by fancy pastries, an exceptionally well-stocked open bar and a room abuzz with stylish people.
–LA Weekly
A few short weeks ago our new Hawaiian friends from the Earth Foundation told us about a new tele-precencing - ultra low-carb conference called “The Climate Summit”. Great name! We at Empowerment Works love the idea, and are exploring how we too can walk the talk with a smaller footprint by collaborating more online leading up to and during The “Global” Summit II (Nov. 8-10 in SF!!) — Stay tuned for more info!
Please join The Climate Summit’s first 2-hour ’strategy session’ to discuss and divise action on moving to a low-carbon world. It will also be an exploration of the medium in anticipation of a larger, higher visibility Climate Summit tentatively scheduled for late May.
To interact with these debates you must create a login on the MIT website. The Massachusetts Instituted of Technology (MIT) does not sell or spam, so have no fear there. You can view without creating an ID and logging in, but to vote, suggest, comment, etc. you must be logged in. Please do spend that time. This is work for our future, our children’s future, and the future of life on Earth. That is not empty rhetoric.
For the Earth,
Stuart Scott, Director
The Climate Summit
Join Kati Hernandez for a film screening and photographic exhibit.
“An open window to the mysticism and power of Afro-Cuban dance and music”
The energy and intensity of my people has been capture through the lenses of Catherine Calderon and Larry Shapiro.
Film “Dancing with the Spirits” by Catherine Calderon.
Photograph by Larry Shapiro.
Please join us for screening and discussion of “Dancing with the Spirits” an inspiring and provocative film that deals with several strong themes, racial and cultural identity, religion and spirituality.
This is the story of two people from vastly different worlds, drawn together by an undeniable destiny: The filmmaker Catherine Calderon, an Irish-American woman and the man who becomes her godfather and mentor as she undergoes the arduous initiation and apprenticeship into the spiritual traditions of Santeria and Palo.
Featuring Felix “Pupy” Insua, one of the most famous Cuban rumberos, world-renowned for his dancing, drumming and outrageous, flamboyant personality. Also a healer/priest of extraordinary power and depth.
The film is a celebration of the magical power of dance and music to bring joy, healing, love and hope to all who are willing to surrender to the dance. For more information about Catherine Calderon and her movie,
Also we will have a photographic exhibit showing the amazing work of Larry Shapiro. Wish expose dance and music as a primary form of expression and the African influence of Cuban spiritual live, their traditional healing practices and family social structure. These images also deal with the blending of African rituals and Christianity. for more information about Larry Shapiro and his work please visit
A little over a week ago we received an e-mail message from sustain-0-preneur, Gunter Pauli - keynote of The Global Summit 2008- announcing his new book-both launching- and -titled, “The Blue Economy”. Since then, we’ve been following his global message and tracking down related events. Days later, Dr. Antonia Neubauer, Founder of READ Global which has ongoing projects in Bhutan wrote in with praise for Gunter’s local involvement and thanks for meeting him at The Global Summit 2008 where she was Collaborating Nonprofit Chair and presented READ Global’s exemplary community development model. Nice to see the spiral of connection to impact.
Now, I know you’ll enjoy Gunter’s words. Don’t miss purchase link and Bhutan Article link below for a taste of innovation from “The Blue Economy”. NOTE: Purchase his book by April 1st and receive 10% off(links below). Better yet, catch him live if you can at one of the events listed below in Santa Barbara, LA, Hawaii, and the Bay Area. And stay tuned to www.BlueEconomy.de for updates!
After 5 years of research, sifting through a lot of scientific data, meeting scholars and academia, discussing with entrepreneurs and financiers, journalists and policy makers I summarized my findings and impressions with a vision that I call “The Blue Economy”.
The book went through a lot of vetting and debates, not the least with the Club of Rome which accepted it as a report. However meetings with UN delegations in Vienna, and Kenya, roundtables with leading companies in Japan, Sweden, France and Brazil, exchanges with NGOs in the US and India offered me a clear insight on how we can go beyond the best of “The Green Economy.”
Last Friday (March 19) I had the opportunity here in Thimphu, Bhutan to brief for the first time ever a government on the opportunities for developing new industries, creating jobs, building up social capital, responding to basic needs and establish competitive enterprises that put society on a path towards sustainability building on what the nation has in cultural and natural resources - working with what is locally available.
I had selected 16 potential industries for development and an audience of officials including the UN representatives left the room enthused, seeing that another development is possible, a development that I call “The Blue Economy” named after this beautiful mother Earth who is blue as can be when we admire her from the universe. Those who would like to call is the Green Economy 2.0 - are free to do so.
We are now working with a group of architects in Bhutan, building a strategy to avoid the disasters that struck Haiti and Chile. Bhutan suffered from its own earthquakes last year, which went by rather unnoticed in the rest of the world. However, this country has left its traditional building techniques and embraced reinforced concrete and cement as the standard unknowingly preparing the nation for a disaster when the next earthquake hits.
Thanks to Anders Nyquist, the pioneer in green building design who created his own eco-village in Northern Sweden already in 1966, we are designing a pathway towards a building system for Bhutan that is based on its traditional designs with centuries of embedded wisdom, while blending this with the latest principles of “Design with the Flow” as already imagined by Leonardo da Vinci in de 15th century! It is a platform that would allow the integration of about 50 innovations, which could support the local economy beyond what anyone imagined.
While Bhutan is at crossroads, bringing the world its National Happiness Index, the world is at crossroads as well. It is in this context that I am delighted to be able to contribute to the debate - but more important - that I am capable of bringing inspiration and action to the entrepreneurs who are prepared to take the risk and build up that new economy from the grassroots up - with passion and enthusiasm.
Here in Bhutan we now have more interest in “The Blue Economy” per capita than anywhere else. However in the next months I will venture into India, Japan, Korea, USA, and Sweden in order to share these insights and offer my enthusiasm. We have such a wealth of opportunities to make a difference. In the mean time I will keep on releasing one after the other the examples from around the world so that we can see that the ideas and innovations formulated are not simply an inspiration, but that somewhere in the world, it is already being implemented.
If you wish to follow the implementation of these innovations around the world, check periodically on www.zeri.org and if you like to receive a weekly update on the new business models, subscribe to www.BlueEconomy.de. There are several language versions. UNEP - a great supporter from the outset has placed a series of video clips on its YouTube site produced by my friends of Virgin Earth in Japan.
Wishing you good reading, inspiration for action, and desire to share.
The Blue Economy
10 Years; 100 Innovations; 100 Million Jobs by Gunter Pauli To pre-order the book, please go to http://www.paradigm-pubs.com/catalog/detail/BluEco. You will receive a 10% discount if you order before April 1, 2010 and key in the promotional code: TBE4110.
~ April 23, 24, 25, 2010 ~
Santa Barbara City College Campus, Santa Barbara, California
Hosted by the SBCC Center for Sustainability
~Evening Talk & Book-Signing, Fri, April 23, 7:30 - 9:30pm, SBCC Fe Bland Auditorium $15~
~Building the Blue Economy Workshop with Gunter Pauli, plus guests*** ,
SBCC Campus, Sat, April 24, 9am - 5pm, $120 ($100 early registration/April 3)~
~Retreat with Gunter Pauli, Sunday, April 25, 10am - 4pm $300 ($250 early registration/April 3)~
How a new generation of entrepreneurs can bring
innovations to the marketplace, secure basic needs for all,
and make sustainable businesses competitive.
***Saturday Workshop with Gunter Pauli/Afternoon break-out sessions with:
Woody Tasch, President of Slow Money Alliance
Kreigh Hampel, City of Burbank, Public Works, Recycling Coordinator
Randy Grissom, Director of the Santa FeCommunity College Sustainable TechnologiesCenter
Sponsored by the Santa BarbaraCityCollegeCenter for Sustainability
Co-sponsors: Santa BarbaraPermacultureNetwork & SBCCScheinfeldCenter for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Event Info, www.sbpermaculture.org, margie@sbpermaculture.org, (805)962-2571
**April 26, 2010 – Burbank, CA**
Arid Lands Inst @ WoodburyUniversity
Woodbury University and the Arid Lands Institute will host a reception, talk and book signing for Dr. Gunter Pauli, April 26, 2010, starting with a reception at 5:30 pm, talk at 6:30 pm, and a book signing at approximately 7:30 pm.
**Oahu, Hawaii, Sept. 13-17, 2010Please check out the conference, Launching The Blue Economy, at http://www.zeroemissionshawaii.orgTHE WORLD CONGRESS ON ZERO EMISSIONS INITIATIVES
LAUNCHING “THE BLUE ECONOMY”
HAWAII CONVENTION CENTER
HONOLULU, HAWAI‘I FROM SEPTEMBER 13-17, 2010
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I had selected 16 potential industries for development and an audience of officials including the UN representatives left the room enthused, seeing that another development is possible, a development that I call “The Blue Economy” named after this beautiful mother Earth who is blue as can be when we admire her from the universe. Those who would like to call is the Green Economy 2.0 - are free to do so.
