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LIFT Partner Erin Axelrod interview Marlena Sonn, Founder Tree Beard Financial about her work, especially the pilot project she is launching with her nonprofit partner Camino Verde to plant 10,000 trees in 2015 in the Tambopata river basin in Madre de Dios, Peru.
Next Economy Now highlights the leaders who are taking a regenerative, bio-regional, equitable, transparent, and whole-systems approach to using business as a force for good.
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Kevin Bayuk interviews Marco Vangelisti, Next Economy thought-leader on investing, the problems (and solutions) related to banking and currency, the basics of critical financial literacy, and what options we all have to begin moving our money in ways that benefit ourselves, our local economies, and all of life.
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Phil Graves, Director of Patagonia's $20 Million and Change, and Ryan Honeyman, Partner at LIFT Economy, discuss:
Why did Patagonia start to make venture capital investments?
What types of investments has $20 Million and Change made? What types of investments does it plan to make?
Why is a clothing company looking at expanding into regenerative agriculture, renewable energy, waste reduction, and conserving water?
How does this venture capital fund align with Patagonia's overall mission to use business to help solve the environmental crisis?
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LIFT partner Kevin Bayuk interviews Jessica Prentice, inventor of the term "Locavore" and founder of Three Stone Hearth--a cutting edge community financed, worker-owned cooperative enterprise in Berkeley California. Jessica and Kevin discuss the deliberate investments Three Stone Hearth makes to create social and environmental impact, both in the community and foodshed, and also within the company itself.
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LIFT Partners Ryan Honeyman and Shawn Berry discuss the book "Reinventing Organizations" by Frederic Laloux, the concept of "going teal," and the emergence of self-managing organizations.
Next Economy Now highlights the leaders who are taking a regenerative, bio-regional, equitable, transparent, and whole-systems approach to using business as a force for good.
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Jenny Kassan, Founder of LIFT Economy Law, describes how mission-driven women entrepreneurs can raise the "right" type of capital from investors.
Jenny discusses direct public offerings, pitching to mission-aligned angels, and how new crowdfunding rules are creating more opportunities for women entrepreneurs.
Next Economy Now highlights the leaders who are taking a regenerative, bio-regional, equitable, transparent, and whole-systems approach to using business as a force for good.
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Shawn Berry is an organizational strategist inspired to harness the power of business to create resilient local economies as patterns to be documented, open sourced, scaled globally and adapted regionally. Shawn left an early career path in nuclear physics research to found the Woodshanti Cooperative (1997-2011), a custom cabinet and furniture shop in San Francisco that set the standard for ethical craftsmanship in the green building movement. This hands on experience as an entrepreneur combined with community organizing and systems theory to craft the vision for LIFT Economy to model an economy that works for all life.
Shawn is especially gifted at assessing and addressing gaps in the ways in which we organize our businesses and our lives. He has remarkable skills in being able to stay present in the often chaotic environment of leading a business, as he helps clients craft and adapt frameworks and models to enable them to be more efficient and effective. Shawn’s experience with working in democratic, multi-stakeholder work environments enables him to offer invaluable counseling in organizing business structures and communicating effectively with partners, employees and board members. Email him at shawn (at) lifteconomy (dot) com.
Next Economy Now highlights the leaders who are taking a regenerative, bio-regional, equitable, transparent, and whole-systems approach to using business as a force for good.
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Our next installment of the LIFT Next Economy Interview Series is up! Ari Weinzweig from Zingerman's in Ann Arbor, Michigan discusses the importance of visioning, vertical integration, open book management, and... anarchy?
Next Economy Now highlights the leaders who are taking a regenerative, bio-regional, equitable, transparent, and whole-systems approach to using business as a force for good.
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Erin Axelrod is a problem-solver, systems-designer, entrepreneur and community organizer. After earning her BA in Urban Studies from Barnard College, Columbia University, Erin worked for four years as the City Programs Coordinator for Daily Acts Organization producing water conservation programs for cities, transforming lawns into food, and helping design and manage a successful greywater reuse education & installation program.
She received her Permaculture Design Certificate with Toby Hemenway and has worked with the Fibershed Project as a contributing author for an Economic Feasibility study for implementing a bioregional-scale regenerative textile mill in CA.
Her consulting with LIFT Economy has lead her to a specialization in accelerating the spread of climate-benefitting and land-based businesses in the Next Economy. She does this through a range of initiatives including client work with companies like North Coast Brewing Company, Kendall Jackson and Singing Frogs Farm, among others. She also convene's LIFT Economy's regenerative agriculture investor network (RAIN) and a Restorative Ocean Economies Field-Building Initiative. Erin lives and works on a Grassfed beef and Land Restoration Project, Freestone Ranch, just outside of her hometown of Petaluma. When not working, she loves to forage wild mushrooms, huckleberries, elderberries and bay nuts to make nutrient dense foods for her friends. A frequent public speaker, she has given presentations at conferences including Social Capital Markets Conference (SOCAP), Permaculture Voices Conference, FoodFunded, Sustainable Enterprise Conference, NorCal Permaculture Convergence, and the CA Greywater Conference. Email her at erin (at) lifteconomy (dot) com.
Next Economy Now highlights the leaders who are taking a regenerative, bio-regional, equitable, transparent, and whole-systems approach to using business as a force for good.
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In this discussion, LIFT Partners Ryan Honeyman and Shawn Berry discuss LIFT's modified "value-based" fee approach that allows clients to adjust invoices up or down based on the value they feel they received.
Next Economy Now highlights the leaders who are taking a regenerative, bio-regional, equitable, transparent, and whole-systems approach to using business as a force for good.
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LIFT Partners Ryan Honeyman and Kevin Bayuk discuss what the next economy is, why it is important, and how any company can increase its positive impact.
