I wrote about Richy Sowa and his Spiral Island initiative last year in How to Make an Island and solve a few of the worlds problems. He had already made one amazing island from some 300,000 bottles, but it got destroyed by a hurricane, and last year in September, he had just started rebuilding… Well its just over a year on, and he now has a new home in Mexico, floating on 100,000 left over plastic bottles an island with house, solar panels, fresh water system and more… Has to be seen to be believed, so until any of us get to Mexico, this video will have to do…
At PlanHQ we're big on being small and lean. It's all about getting big results out of small high-powered teams. I did a presentation the other week on building a lightweight global business after being selected as the Wellington Regional Management Champion. The slides don't say it all, but I cover a few lightweight businesses I'm involved in building, and do the weigh-in on a...(Read more)
There are huge advantages of running your business virtually. When you build your business around people and outcomes, instead of an office, you focus on making your business very transparent, goal focused and systematic, so you get some amazing benefits.
Its easy to plug new people into the team and get them productive
You're lightweight (low cost and small footprint)
People can put energy into growing the business...(Read more)
It's World Environment Day tomorrow, and our home base Wellington, New Zealand is this years host country and city. You'd hope this was an everyday thing really in our lives, but for now having a day marked for it is a chance to have a wakeup call and remind ourselves and the people around us that the environment is the base of all we have.
So...(Read more)
All the big guys are 'getting into sustainability' these days, but this is more often than not driven from the marketing department as a PR initiative.
I'm not cynical, its possibly better than nothing - sure, but does it actually mean any real change happens in behavior? Maybe sometimes, but I think in reality it can actually do quite the opposite, as people end up eating...(Read more)
