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Stories from the Field: Using the Canvas in Innovation Classrooms

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Flourishing Business Community Speakers Series: Stories from the Field #05 Using the Canvas in Innovation Classrooms with Maya Hoveskog Date: Tuesday September 12 Time: 15h00 UTC – 08h00 PST, 11h00 EDT, 16h00 BST, 17h00 CET, 01h00 JST (+1 day) Duration: 1 hour Registration: Required via Eventbrite at For our fifth monthly flourishing business community speaker […]

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What’s Innovation Got to Do with It?

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The Flourishing Business Canvas is a Systemic Management Innovation Here at the Flourishing Enterprise Co-lab, we have a vision: we believe that business must innovate to become a key enabler for the possibility for human and all other life to flourish on this planet for generations to come (John Ehrenfeld, MIT). The Co-lab is the

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Stories from the Field: Exploring Possibilities for Flourishing Using the Canvas

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Flourishing Business Community Speakers Series: Stories from the Field #04 Exploring Possibilities for Flourishing Using the Canvas with Simon Robinson Date: Tuesday July 11 Time: 15h00 UTC – 08h00 PST, 11h00 EDT, 16h00 BST, 17h00 CET, 01h00 JST (+1 day) Duration: 1 hour Registration: Required via Eventbrite at For our fourth new monthly flourishing business

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Is the Future Viability of Your Enterprise at Risk?

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Is the Future Viability of Your Enterprise at Risk? The definition of social, environmental and financial viability for our enterprises changes over time. It is not fixed. It was different in the past from how it is today. And, it will be different in the future from how it is today. Behaving as if this

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Flourishing Business Community Speakers Series: Stories from the Field #03 Using the Canvas to Start New Enterprises with Ondine Hogeboom Date: Tuesday June 13 Time: 15h00 UTC – 08h00 PST, 11h00 EDT, 16h00 BST, 17h00 CET, 01h00 JST (+1 day) Duration: 1 hour Registration: Required via Eventbrite at For our third new monthly flourishing business

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Flourishing Business Community Speakers Series: Stories from the Field #02 Using the Canvas to Develop Strategy & Model the Future with Jan Helge Viste & Egil Norman Olsen Date: Tuesday May 9 Time: 15h00 UTC – 08h00 PST, 11h00 EDT, 16h00 GMT, 17h00 CET, 01h00 JST (+1 day) Duration: 1 hour Registration: Required via Eventbrite

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Flourishing Business Community Speakers Series: Stories from the Field #01 Bouvet’s Client’s Experience using the Flourishing Business Canvas with Kristian Amlie Date: Tuesday April 11 Time: 15h00 UTC – 08h00 PST, 11h00 EDT, 16h00 GMT, 17h00 CET, 01h00 JST (+1 day) Duration: 1 hour Registration: Required via Eventbrite at For the first of our new

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NEW Flourishing Business Canvas v2.1

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Good news… you are now able to freely download the new v2.1 of the Flourishing Business Canvas and the associated and completely Revised Interactive Guide / Video Companion from our website and the Library of Resources in our community. This blog post introduces the v2.1 canvas, including describing the differences between the previous version (2.0) and the

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Evolving from Sustainable Development to Sustainable Flourishing

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There is No Point to this Blog Post To most immersed in Western culture, this blog post has no purpose. There is no need to evolve our understanding of sustainable human development. The current, and many would say obvious, goal of sustaining human development is to raise the standards of living of everyone in the

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Picture of the Earth from Apollo 12 where the Earth is eclipsing the Sun and so is totally dark, only the corona of the sun is visible

Sustainable Earth – Part II

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Sustainable Earth: A New Destination for Western Culture? A two-part blog post that explores how our modernist culture got us into the mess we’re in, and a small suggestion of how to proceed to an Earth that can sustain the possibility for human and all other life to flourish for generations. Read Part 1 here.

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