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  • From: carolyn anderson <cschampagne@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] On YOUTUBE/Gunter Pauli & Building the Blue Economy Talk @ SBCC April 23 Santa Barbara
  • Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 17:25:50 -0400

Awesome and inspiring talk! Thanks so much for posting!

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture
Network <lakinroe@silcom.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone-
>
> The recent Building the Blue Economy talk on
> April 23 with Gunter Pauli, hosted by the Santa
> Barbara City College (SBCC) Center for
> Sustainability (co-sponsored by SB Permaculture
> Network) is now available for viewing on You Tube:
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/user/CommongoodMedia#p/c/FD17690D6EA910B5/0/9Q3qRsFLtuI
>
> As a result of the Blue Economy event, an SBCC
> Eco-entrepreneurship pilot program has been
> proposed with Blue Economy & ZERI influence!
> Please stay tuned for updates.
>
>
> Businesses operating as eco-systems do, evolving
> to abundance, the waste of one, becoming the
> nutrient and resource of another, creating
> multiple revenue streams...
>
> for more information about the recent Building
> the Blue Economy event held at SBCC:
> www.sbpermaculture.org,
> or to see the Blue Economy Innovations:
> www.blueeconomy.de (you can sign up to have
> weekly innovations delivered to your email
> address)
>
> <<<>>>
>
>
> Gunter Pauli, The Blue Economy -Santa Barbara City College April 23, 2010
>
>
> Gunter Pauli Author of the newly published book
> "The Blue Economy, 10 Years, 100 Innovations, 100
> Million Jobs" Gunter Pauli challenges us to give
> up doomsday thinking...
>
>
> Gunter Pauli suggests by emulating nature we can
> evolve from an economy based on scarcity to an
> economy based on abundance---the cascading,
> nutrient rich, Blue Economy. Founder of Zero
> Emissions Research Initiatives (ZERI) Global
> Network, Gunter Pauli pioneered the concept of
> waste being seen as a resource that with creative
> thinking, can be used to create multiple
> enterprises from singular ones, with benefits for
> the economy and the environment. Pauli is fond of
> saying that returns on investment from these
> kinds of business models far exceed those of
> companies like Microsoft.
> The Blue Economy began as a project to find one
> hundred of the best nature-inspired technologies
> that could effect the economies of the world,
> while sustainably providing basic human needs.
> Starting with over 2000 peer review articles, Dr.
> Pauli found 340 innovations that could be bundled
> into systems that function the way ecosystems do,
> that were then reviewed by a team of scientists,
> corporate strategists, expert financiers, and
> public policy makers. For the 100 Innovations
> described, The Blue Economy estimates an
> employment potential of 100 million jobs. The
> plausibility of this estimate is enhanced by the
> fact that there are today more people employed in
> renewable energies than in the oil and gas
> industries combined.
>
> Gunter Pauli, famous eco-entrepreneur and
> passionate proponent of green development
> worldwide, is the former president of Ecover
> biodegradable soap company who built EuropeĆ­s
> first ecological factory. Pauli is the founder
> of Worldwatch Europe, and a member of the Club of
> Rome and directs the Zero Emissions Research
> Initiative (ZERI) at the United Nations
> University in Tokyo. He lectures regularly to
> business executives and governments, and is the
> author of 17 books in 21 languages.
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  • Re: [permaculture] On YOUTUBE/Gunter Pauli & Building the Blue Economy Talk @ SBCC April 23 Santa Barbara, carolyn anderson, 06/03/2010

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