Ecocentricity Blog

A bi-monthly blog by John Lanier, director of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation and grandson of the late Ray C. Anderson.  Musings from John as he manages the private family foundation that keeps Ray's legacy alive. Subscribe here.

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Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: Baseball at its Finest
And so I settled in to watch a baseball game last Wednesday evening, like millions of other Americans. I figured it would be historic, and I didn’t want to miss out.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: A Sports Analogy
When the players take the field, they’ll do so fully intending to win. They’ll build each other up. Encouragements of “let’s go” and “we’ve got this” will ring out from the dugouts. Everyone will be focused on the chance they have to succeed, not the long odds that they face.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: People Will Come
We built the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge. But we didn’t know if teams would enter. We didn’t know if their ideas would be as innovative and impactful as we hoped, as we need. We didn’t know if “people would come.”

Environment

One-Hit Wonders
The Rockefeller Foundation defines “urban resiliency” as a city’s ability to survive, adapt and grow in the face of any shock or stress. But surviving, adapting and growing aren’t unique urban capabilities.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: Congratulations John Picard!
Last week, I was in Los Angeles to celebrate with John as he received the Global Green Individual Environmental Leadership Award. It was certainly well-deserved for a man who has been an environmental leader for nearly three decades.

Energy

A Distributed Generation Future
Here’s the basic idea: instead of a small number of power plants providing a lot of people and businesses with power, we can instead use a large number of small-scale electricity generators, each providing a small number of local users with power.

Environment

Running Out of Gas
In this respect, electric vehicles carry less risk. If gasoline supply or infrastructure fails, electric vehicle owners don’t lose their mobility. In a moment like this in Georgia, I’m grateful for that benefit.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: Shake, Rattle and Roll
The show was covering earthquakes in the continental U.S. state most prone to experience them. Any guesses which state that is? Go right ahead and take a stab at it.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Hooray Beer!
For the most part, people buy beer based on two considerations. First, do they like it? Second, what does it cost? Increasingly though, other considerations are coming into play.

Environment

An Origin Story
Understood this way, humility is about being lowly and close to the ground. Which makes it the perfect word for environmentalists.

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