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    Grow Ensemble is an independent media platform exploring the who, what, why, & how of building a better world.

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    The world of change-makin’ isn’t always easy. Our next steps aren’t always clear. Effecting serious change takes a long time, maybe even a lifetime. So, when faced with the inevitable difficult decisions, burnout, or the need for guidance, having a set of practices or principles to fall back on can be invaluable. They can remind us of what’s important, offer us a tried and true way of looking at a problem a new, or just give us reassurance that we’re on the right path. This book, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World by Acumen Founder & CEO Jacqueline Novogratz might be able to help. If you're interesting in using your time, skills, and energy to build a better world this book offers the career advice you need to hear. 📘 Manifesto for a Moral Revolution by Jaqueline Novogratz - https://growensemble.com/manifesto-moral-revolution-bookshop/📚 Find all our Read Ensemble book recommendations at Bookshop.org - https://bookshop.org/shop/grow-ensemble00:00 - Introduction01:36 - Practice 1 "Just Start" 02:52 - Practice 2 "Redefine Success" 04:33 - Practice 3 "Cultivate Moral Imagination" 05:36 - Practice 4 "Listen to Voice Unheard" 06:42 - Practice 5 "Ocean in a Drop"07:41 - Practice 6 "Practice Courage"08:28 - Practice 7 "Hold Opposing Values in Tension"09:04 - Practice 8 "Avoid the Conformity Trap"10:41 - Practice 9 "Use the Power of Markets, Cautiously" 11:50 - Practice 10 "Partner with Humility & Audacity" 12:52 - Practice 11 "Accompany Each Other"13:59 - Practice 12 "Tell Stories that Matter"14:56 - Practice 13 "Embrace the Beautiful Struggle"16:01 - Conclusion#impact #motivational #books 🔗 *CONNECT WITH CORY AMES*👥 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amescory/💻 Website - https://coryames.com/💌 Newsletter - https://coryames.com/newsletter/🔗 CONNECT WITH GROW ENSEMBLE 🎥 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/GrowEnsemble/💻 Website - https://growensemble.com/💌 Newsletter - https://growensemble.com/newsletter/
    Assessing the sustainability of any individual product or company is a core facet of the work we do here at Grow Ensemble. For our Buy Ensemble Better-World Business & Product Directory, we see it as our duty to both identify and define what makes for a sustainable product in any industry or category. If we’re to Buy Ensemble, we’re making purchasing decisions with a sense of the greater “we” in mind. We’re considering how this purchase affects people and the planet beyond ourselves. In our efforts to actually fulfill that duty, Buy-ing Ensemble, we believe definitions are critically important. If there’s no agreed-upon definition of “sustainability,” it’s unclear what anyone means when they say their product is sustainable. So, for the sake of setting important definitions, here we are asking: What is a sustainable product? After assessing 1000s brands and products spanning all sorts of industries for “sustainability,” we’ve come to develop a (working) definition. With this definition comes complexity and a list of working component parts, but we find that it’s built from three pillars: performance, planet, and accountability. In this video, I’ll be breaking down each. Let’s get started.
    🌲What is Mass Timber? 🌲Dive into the future of sustainable building with insight from Anyeley Hallová, a real estate developer based in Portland, Oregon. In this quick video Anyeley explains what Mass Timber is and how it will revolutionizing the "carbon story" of the construction industry. Learn why mass timber is critical to the sustainable building movement. Watch the full interview here 👉 https://youtu.be/1i2LYxlyDz4#masstimber #sustainablebuilding #sustainability 🔗 *GROW ENSEMBLE* 🎙The Podcast - https://www.socialentrepreneurship.fm/🎥 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/GrowEnsemble/💻 Website - https://growensemble.com/💌 Newsletter - https://growensemble.com/newsletter/
    The role of a real estate developer is not only to improve a piece of land or build to increase its monetary value. Perhaps less thought of, they are also responsible for designing an environment and community that can promote sustainability, social justice, and equity.Anyeley Hallová is a real estate developer and the Founder of Adre, a community-driven real estate development company committed to a bold vision of design excellence, development innovation, and environmental stewardship, both in building construction and equitable outcomes.In today’s episode, Cory and Anyeley talk about how sustainable building developments can impact the community and create wealth. Anyeley shares her sustainability journey, the problems she noticed in the real estate development industry, especially in regard to people of color, and how she was able to build a business that addresses social, environmental, and economic concerns.#realestatedevelopment #realestate #realestateinvesting ⭐️ *SPONSORED BY* Saybrook University - https://www.saybrook.edu/areas-of-study/business-administration/Choice Organics - https://choiceorganicsproducts.com/📄 *SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPT*Visit the website for the transcript and highlights from the conversation - https://www.socialentrepreneurship.fm/244/🔗 *CONNECT WITH ANYELEY*👥 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anyeley/📷 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/anyeleyhallova/💻 Websites - https://www.adre.dev/🔗 *CONNECT WITH CORY*👥 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amescory/💻 Website - https://coryames.com/💌 Newsletter - https://coryames.com/newsletter/🔗 *CONNECT WITH GROW ENSEMBLE* 🎥 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/GrowEnsemble/💻 Website - https://growensemble.com/💌 Newsletter - https://growensemble.com/newsletter/📚 *RESOURCES MENTIONED*Local Initiatives Support Coalition (LISC) on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/localinitiativesThe Nature Conservancy - https://www.nature.org/en-us/Meyer Memorial Trust - https://mmt.org/The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein - https://bookshop.org/books/the-color-of-law-a-forgotten-history-of-how-our-government-segregated-america/9781631494536Segregated by Design directed by Mark Lopez - https://www.segregatedbydesign.com/Albina Vision Trust - https://albinavision.org/Williams and Russell Project - https://prosperportland.us/portfolio-items/the-hill-block-n-russell-and-williams-collaboration/Station Eleven mini-series - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10574236/US Green Building Council - https://www.usgbc.org/🎙 *ABOUT THE PODCAST*The Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Podcast (https://www.socialentrepreneurship.fm/) is the #1 podcast for social entrepreneurs. With Host Cory Ames, Founder of Grow Ensemble, dive deeper into all things building a better world. Hear from CEOs, Executive Directors, Thought-Leaders, Academics, Activists, and more from any and every sector all over the globe. 🎧 *LISTEN & SUBSCRIBE*Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1448278538Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1IfgluvDr7Sdtthyx3Yquu🙏 *LEAVE A REVIEW* If you enjoyed listening to the podcast, we'd love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts to help others discover the show! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1448278538?mt=2&ls=1
    When brands such as Adidas engage in greenwashing, it has negative consequences for the sustainable business movement as a whole. In this video, we explore an example of Adidas' greenwashing and how that hurts both affiliated "sustainable" brand, Allbirds, and the sustainable business movement overall. #adidas #sustainability #allbirds #greenwashing 🔗 CONNECT WITH GROW ENSEMBLE 🎥 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/GrowEnsemble/💻 Website - https://growensemble.com/💌 Newsletter - https://growensemble.com/newsletter/
    Hydropower was the first and is now the oldest large-scale source of renewable energy that we’ve deployed worldwide. Hydropower offers a unique set of advantages in the context of an entirely decarbonized energy grid. It can offer storage capacity and be more consistent when sources like wind and solar are not available.Gia Schneider is the CEO of Natel Energy, an innovative company she co-founded with her brother, Abe, in 2009 that is designing and implementing hydropower projects that both produce affordable, clean, and renewable energy and leave the river ecosystems they're set up in better off.With this conversation, we’ll be working to understand hydropower: its potential, its historic challenges, the limitations it's faced, and a path forward for wielding this resource efficiently and restoratively.#Hydropower #RenewableEnergy #ClimateCrisis ⭐️ *SPONSORED BY* Choice Organics - https://choiceorganicsproducts.com/tentree - https://www.tentree.com📄 *SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPT*Visit the website for the transcript and highlights from the conversation - https://www.socialentrepreneurship.fm/243/🔗 *CONNECT WITH GIA*🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/giaschneider👥 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gia-schneider-4532a54/📷 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/natel_energy/💻 Websites - https://www.natelenergy.com/🔗 *CONNECT WITH CORY*🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/AmesCory👥 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amescory/💻 Website - https://coryames.com/💌 Newsletter - https://coryames.com/newsletter/🔗 *CONNECT WITH GROW ENSEMBLE* 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/GrowEnsemble🎥 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/GrowEnsemble/💻 Website - https://growensemble.com/💌 Newsletter - https://growensemble.com/newsletter/📚 *RESOURCES MENTIONED*Natel Energy's projects - https://www.natelenergy.com/projectsNatel Energy news - https://www.natelenergy.com/newsOPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) - https://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/Three Gorges Dam in China - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Three-Gorges-DamFirst Rio Summit - https://www.un.org/en/conferences/environment/rio1992*_*Since this interview in fall 2022, Natel Energy has had some exciting updates*_* 🐟 Commissioned their first turbine in European waters for Austrian Utility, Energie Steiermark (Natel's third fully-installed project to date) - https://www.natelenergy.com/posts/natel-expands-in-austria🐟 Expansion into Africa with a contract to deliver four 1.9 meter fish-safe RHTs to MyHydro for the first of 33 potential projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo - https://www.natelenergy.com/posts/natel-and-myhydro-kick-off🐟 Publication of study results outlining 100% survival of American eels passing through the RHT in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society - https://www.natelenergy.com/posts/eel-study-announcement🎙 *ABOUT THE PODCAST*The Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Podcast (https://www.socialentrepreneurship.fm/) is the #1 podcast for social entrepreneurs and changemakers. With Host Cory Ames, Founder of Grow Ensemble, dive deeper into all things building a better world. Hear from CEOs, Executive Directors, Thought-Leaders, Academics, Activists, and more from any and every sector all over the globe. 🎧 *LISTEN & SUBSCRIBE*Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1448278538Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1IfgluvDr7Sdtthyx3Yquu🙏 *LEAVE A REVIEW* If you enjoyed listening to the podcast, we'd love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts to help others discover the show! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1448278538?mt=2&ls=1
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