Developing Regenerative Community Businesses
December 4 @ 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Central Time
Developing Regenerative Community Businesses
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
- Pacific: 8:00-9:30am
- Mountain: 9:00am-10:30am
- Central: 10:00-11:30am
- Eastern: 11:00am-12:30pm
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How can communities build regenerative economies within our capitalist societies? Come learn about and discuss successful models with members that have built businesses within their communities.
About the event
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This Week’s Guest Speakers
Nick (Thor) Thorsen
Thor moved to East Wind in April of 2023. He started in nut butter production and moved on to be a coordinator for tub shifts shortly after. Began helping and plugging into East Wind Nut Butter’s office and administration work a few months later. Joined a marketing team aimed to help improve website presence. Created new system for tracking and forecasting raw material needs and later becoming purchasing manager. Began leading marketing projects and teams then eventually moving into the Sales and Marketing position officially in Spring of 2024.
Molly McGee
Molly (she/her) is a founding member of Abundant Ponds, a forming community in the San Francisco Bay Area, which recently bought a restaurant, The Rainbow Junction, on 147 acres. She has been on a lifelong mission to live in a regenerative community and is excited to support others bringing their dreams to life. She works as a licensed real estate agent to create infrastructure to support communities. Her community business The Rainbow Junction Farm is a destination restaurant and wilderness experience that offers income to support Abundant Ponds community members..
Allan Adler
Allan is a resident of the Ithaca Ecovillage and a serial entrepreneur focused on bringing the principles of sustainable bio-ecosystems to businesses and intentional communities In his professional life, Allan is Managing Partner at Digital Bridge Partners which specializes in unlocking the ecosystem potential for technology companies. As Allan began to explore Intentional Communities which landed him in Ithaca, he began the Sustainable Community Life podcast that focuses on the intersection of sharing, caring, and trusting which are the foundations of all relationships – personal, communal, business and society. In August he began working with the FIC on a work stream called Regenerative Businesses for Intentional Communities.
Allan has worked for Deloitte, the Boston Consulting Group, and is a Baker Scholar graduate of the Harvard Business School where he earned his MBA. He is also a casual-professional jazz saxophonist.
About Your Host
Daniel Greenberg
Daniel (he/him) is the Co-Executive Director of the Foundation for Intentional Community. Back in 1998, following his Ph.D. dissertation on Growing up in Intentional Communities, Daniel founded Living Routes, which ran study abroad programs in ecovillages around the world. In 2012, he started Earth Deeds, which offers online tools to account for our unavoidable CO2 emissions.
Location
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The Online Event Experience
Live Zoom Sessions
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Affordable and Accessible
All our events are run on a sliding scale basis. Generous donations cover the costs for low-income attendees. FIC is committed to making our programs accessible to people of all walks of life.
Watch the Recording
You’ll receive the recording of your event to view for 60 days. So don’t worry if you can’t attend a live session. Watch or listen whenever it is convenient for you. Transcripts available upon request.
Registration
Developing Regenerative Community Businesses
Free!
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
- Pacific: 8:00-9:30am
- Mountain: 9:00am-10:30am
- Central: 10:00am-11:30am
- Eastern: 11:00am-12:30pm