The day brings innovation black belts together with people who are putting it all on the line to make change happen.

It’s a unique opportunity to engage directly with a busload of diverse, creative, interesting and motivated people to actually make a dent in the universe.

Plus, it’ll be a blast.

Devon Hartman is a Claremont-based architect and co-founder of CHERP (Community Home Energy Retrofit Project), which he designed to form collaborative partnerships with community organizations, contractors, and cities to promote sustainable building practices.

Mark Dibbens is a professor of management at the University of Tasmania in Australia, where he focuses on the Philosophy of Management—a field with compelling relevance to ecological studies and environmentalism. Pando Blog editor Kevin Madden spoke with Mark over Skype in August.

Claudia Pearce is an author, journalist, and activist based in Southern California. Pearce is involved with developing Huerta del Valle‘s gardens and founding Pando Hub projects there and at the Natural Ivy Foundation in Koreatown.

Be bold. Get out. Let go. Make stuff. Bet small. Move fast.

Francis and King on Earth

The drawings come out of my own frustration with the rhetoric of saving the earth…

Residents and visitors breathe dark, smoggy air in the cities, and partly because the problems are so serious, China is committed to work for “ecological civilization.”

One can hardly question that national sovereignty is being surrendered to the corporations.

We are all indigenous to this Mother Earth. We are not her failed experiment. That is not what we are. We are her immune response.

Nordhaus operates out of economic thinking that is strongly individualistic in its assumptions. He does not seem to understand the difference between taking the market as the instrument of solving our problems and putting forward different goals altogether.