It feels a little like winning a ‘Golden Ticket’ from Willy Wonka, because yesterday I found out I was one of 100 people invited to attend the first TEDxVacouver on November 21st at the Electronic Arts campus in Burnaby. Selection for the event was based on an online application that took at least an hour [...]

In 1821 Clarissa was born a timid soul but with a courageous pioneering heart. Forty years years later ‘the Angel of the Battlefield’ began her life’s work.
In 1861, now considered ‘calm and resourceful’ Clara, as she wished to be called, was working as a recording clerk in the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C. at [...]

BE SURE TO READ Yvon Chouinards business autobiography, ‘Let My People Go Surfing: the education of a reluctant businessman.‘
 
“I’ve never respected the profession. It’s business that has to take the majority of the blame for being the enemy of nature, for destroying native cultures, for taking from the poor and giving to the rich, and [...]

Anita Roddick started the Body Shop in 1976 and said, ‘nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.’
Successful activist and successful business woman, Anita Roddick creatively used the Body Shop as a means to promote numerous causes like ending animal testing, protecting rain forests and the [...]

Hopen, Komplement, Klippan and Kramfors. There’s build your own furniture and then there’s build your own empire and Ingvar Kamprad has created a name for giving the people what they want with affordable style. IKEA is swedish for richest man in the world. A catalog in print more than the Bible - 27 languages and [...]