Lovely example of biomimicry from Ecovative via Grist:
Usually you do not want fungi in the walls of your home. But Ecovative is building a home in which having fungi in the walls is the entire point. The “Mushroom Tiny House” will use mycelium (the mass of threadlike “roots” that mushrooms use to take in nutrition) for insulation.
According to Inhabitat, this stuff is basically asbestos except that it’s not bad for the planet, won’t give you cancer, and is related to something you might put on a pizza…
What do I love? = What’s my business? One of the fascinations of our recent outback road journey was some of the unique businesses we came across: the coffee farm near Mareeba where the coffee is (almost) organically grown by Bruno, Maria and Mama; the fossicking tour on the road to Karumba that taught us how to…
Once upon a time entrepreneurs were thought to be born rather than made. However, like any human craft there’s a strong element of skill. We now know a lot about the skills and habits of successful repeat entrepreneurs. These are 3 of our current favourite skill-builders – along with video intros – for finding, funding…
“Business doesn’t listen!” is a regular complaint that I hear in environmental circles – but what IS business? Essentially, business is a group activity – a process. There is no physical thing called business that we can put in a wheelbarrow. We may be able to put a building, a product, a machine or a person in a wheelbarrow…
Marketing basics – products and value A core concept in marketing is the difference between your product and it’s value. What’s the difference between the item you are selling and its worth to your customer? If you sell someone perfume, are they buying the scent in the bottle, the promise of romance, or the prestige of your label? An accountant’s product might…
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Richard Buckminster Fuller
Stephen Covey’s new book “The 3rd Alternative” showed up in my library this week. My first encounter with Mr. Covey was in “7 Habits of Highly Effective People ” and his distinction between “urgent” and “important” tasks has been a key time management tool for me for ever since.
