Sue Lebeck's Blog Posts Tagged 'innovation' (4)

New Year, New World

"It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine!" Such was my personal soundtrack during a road-trip move across the country with my family in 1989. And such is an appropriate soundtrack as we begin this next cycle of the Mayan long-count calendar.

New worlds and new times invite -- nay, demand -- change. We've often offered…

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Added by Sue Lebeck on January 9, 2013 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Let's Hurry Up and Pace Ourselves

Last month at the SVII Innovation Society, which I program directed before taking up my current initiatives, Bill Veltrop of MISA made a compelling presentation invoking the important and timely distinction between finite and infinite games.

Finite games, our cultural habit, succeed when a winner and a loser…

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Added by Sue Lebeck on June 7, 2011 at 12:30pm — No Comments

The Age of SMART

Yeah, this use of the acronym "SMART" is our own invention. You won't yet find it in the mainstream (though we'd love to change that over time.) We came up with it to try to articulate specifically what we were learning about sustainable systems, and what it really meant to be "sustainable".

The word "sustainable" itself is not terribly inspiring. Intuitively, it means something on the order of "continuing to exist". In recent…

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Added by Sue Lebeck on March 15, 2011 at 4:30pm — No Comments

We Love our Food

We love our food, don't we?

As I write this at the top of the week, it is Valentine's Day and my husband, ever the chef, is gifting me this evening with an especially artful meal. Here in San Francisco in 2011, his creative options reflect an embarrassment of riches -- sources both local and global, fresh and preserved, and in vast variety once unimaginable.

Through innovation in the business of food, we have achieved amazing advances, and nowhere is it…

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Added by Sue Lebeck on February 14, 2011 at 3:00pm — No Comments