That. All of it. That is exactly why I started BEAHIVE 7 years ago (next week!).
I address a bit of that when I applied to the Mentor Capital Network (fka William James Foundation) Sustainable Business Plan Competition, which “supports entrepreneurs who are designing companies for the long-term: building in social and environmental values to create truly sustainable business models.” http://beahivebzzz.com/blog/2013/11/making-world-significantly-better-place-to-live/ Thanks for all you do, Tony, to push that message forward. scott. - -- - *SCOTT TILLITT* PR yogi + social entrepreneur + community catalyst + meditator // sc...@beahivebzzz.com / 917.449.6356 // Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/scott.tillitt> / Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/bluehwyflaneur> / LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/tillitt/> BEAHIVE <http://www.beahivebzzz.com/> // collaborative spaces for work + community *ANTIDOTE COLLECTIVE* <http://antidotecollective.org/> // socially conscious communications + projects for a better world SOCIAL VENTURE INSTITUTE / HUDSON VALLEY <http://www.svihudsonvalley.com/> // retreat for world-changing social entrepreneurs RE>THINK LOCAL <http://rethinklocal.org/> // co-creating a better Hudson Valley - -- - t h i n k / f e e l - -- - "...an idea or product that deserves the label 'creative' arises from the synergy of many sources and not only from the mind of a single person." — Mihaly Csikszentmihaly On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 2:59:43 PM UTC-4, Tony Bacigalupo wrote: > > Awesome share, Steve. Thanks! > > The fundamental issues with our current systems of finance, education, > governance and labor have made themselves largely apparent, but it is only > through circumventing those systems in local communities that we may > discover and build better systems that may one day take hold. > > I believe coworking communities can be places where people can test out > new forms of commerce and value exchange between one another. Over time, > our communities can help so ensure the adoption of the better systems we > need to progress as a race. > > In other words... if you're just trying to run a workspace, you're missing > out on a huge opportunity to help enact lasting social change that might be > brewing right under your nose. > > Tony > *---* > *New Work Cities <http://nwc.co/consulting> - Helping people build better > coworking cultures.* > *Open Coworking <http://opencoworking.org/> - Championing the global > coworking movement.* > > [image: Inline image 8] <http://tonybacigalupo.com/>[image: > http://twitter.com/tonybgoode] <http://twitter.com/tonybgoode>[image: > http://facebook.com/tonybacigalupo] > <http://facebook.com/tonybacigalupo>[image: > http://linkedin.com/in/tonybacigalupo] > <http://linkedin.com/in/tonybacigalupo> > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Steve King <sk...@emergentresearch.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> The Social Economy of Coworking Spaces: A Focal Point Model of >> Coordination <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2770874> >> suggest >> that coworking facilities provide "a focal (Schelling) point for finding >> people, ideas and other resources when you lack the information necessary >> for coordination." >> >> >> While an academic paper, it's mostly pretty easy to read and follow. It >> does a nice job of providing a solid set of theories on the value of >> coworking as "micro social economies". >> >> -- >> Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Coworking" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to coworking+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
