#OUREntrepidNetwork – Introducing Adrian Grenier, Lucy Sumner and the Lonely Whale Foundation

www.LonelyWhale.org

#STOPSUCKING

Founders Adrian Grenier and Lucy Sumner and their NYC/Seattle/LA based Lonely Whale Foundation is dedicated to bringing people closer to the world’s oceans through education and awareness, inspiring empathy and action for ocean health and the wellbeing of marine wildlife.

In their own words (www.lonelywhale.org)

The Lonely Whale Foundation is dedicated to bringing people closer to the world’s oceans through education and awareness, inspiring empathy and action for ocean health and the wellbeing of marine wildlife.

Born out of the full length documentary, 52: The Search for the Loneliest Whale, the Lonely Whale Foundation was created to develop and support a community of ocean advocates through the champion of the Lonely Whale. Calling out at 52 Hz, the Lonely Whale sings at a frequency unrecognized by other whales leading us to believe it lives alone, calling out to no response. Through the story of our whale we are able to confront loneliness and connect with one another, ourselves, and our environment.

Dedicated to bringing people closer to the world’s oceans through education and awareness, inspiring empathy and action for ocean health and the wellbeing of marine wildlife.

In the news

Adrian Grenier: Why He Launched The Strawless Ocean Initiative | Forbes.com, 30 March 2017

To find out more about the Lonely Whale Foundation and how you can get involved visit www.lonelywhale.org and www.stopsucking.strawlessocean.org.

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Doug Parker | Linkedin

October 17, 2017October 17, 2017

#OUREntrepidNetwork – Introducing Doug Busch and pH Living

www.pHLiving.us

Building the Healthiest Homes on the Planet

Doug Busch and the Malibu, California based pH Living team are building healthier homes for a healthier planet.

In their own words (www.phliving.us)

pH Living is a full service design/build group specializing in healthy and sustainable architecture, interior design, and construction services. Our team of LEED certified designers and environmental scientists collaborate to bring you custom, renovated, and ground-up construction of healthy homes with contemporary design—scientifically tested and certified to meet the only healthy home standard developed by the International Institute for Building Biology and Ecology, (IBE).

One of the unique aspects of pH Living is that we are architects, designers, contractors and scientists with over 40 years of combined knowledge and expertise—providing a unique perspective from many different fields, in order to offer the best solutions for each project, with a single source of responsibility from project start to completion.

So whether you are looking for a full home makeover, or a new home built from the ground up, our pH Living team offers an array of services and construction methods that provide the healthiest housing solutions—building healthier homes and a healthier planet.

pH Living was founded on the principles of healthy design and sustainable building practices. Founders Doug Busch, Michael Francis, and Larry Gust created pH Living with the goal of providing homes for people who suffer from environmental allergies and chemical sensitivities, a growing health problem that afflicts over 7 million people nationwide.

Through extensive research and scientific testing, we discovered that the technology exists for us to design, build and renovate healthier homes for everyone. We also recognized the rising need for all people to have access to healthy homes produced without harmful toxins, with higher quality construction methods, sustainable building practices, and great design. These discoveries have inspired our pH Living team in our continued mission to be the leading provider of the world’s healthiest housing. We are committed to and driven by the belief that we can help change lives and our planet one square foot at a time.

In the news

pH Living: THE BIG PICTURE – A Living Sanctuary | YouTube

To learn more about what they’re up to at pH Living visit www.phliving.us.

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Doug Parker | Linkedin

October 13, 2017October 13, 2017

#OUREntrepidNetwork – Introducing Gary White, Matt Damon and Water.org

www.water.org

Opportunity starts with safe water

CEO Gary White, Actor Matt Damon and their Kansas City, Missouri based Water.org team empowers families with access to safe water and sanitation through affordable financing.

In their own words (https://water.org/about-us/)

We believe water is the way. To break the cycle of poverty. To protect and save lives. To make a bright future possible for all.

Access to safe water can protect and save lives, just because it’s there. Access to safe water has the power to turn time spent into time saved, when it’s close and not hours away. Access to safe water can turn problems into potential: unlocking education, economic prosperity, and improved health.

Every human being deserves to define their own future, and water makes that possible. We’ve transformed more than seven million lives with access to safe water and sanitation, and together we can reach even more people.

For more than 25 years, we’ve made it our mission to bring water and sanitation to the world. Founded by Gary White and Matt Damon, we pioneer market-driven financial solutions to the global water crisis.

In the news

Matt Damon and Gary White on the World’s Water Crisis | NPR, April 2017, Emily Bogle

Talking Toilets with Matt Damon | National Geographic, August 2017, Susan Goldberg

To learn more about what they’re up to visit www.Water.org

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Thank you Gary and Matt for the benefit of your influence and leadership in support of this cause.

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Doug Parker | Linkedin-kickassdoug

October 13, 2017

#OUREntrepidNetwork – Introducing Kristin Carroll and Rescue | The Behavior Change Agency

www.rescueagency.com

Promoting Healthy Behaviors

CEO Kristin Carrol and her San Diego based Rescue team believe that marketing can do more than sell goods, it can create good.

In their own words (www.rescueagency.com)

Rescue provides behavior change marketing services (or “social marketing”) to government, non-profit and corporate organizations. Rescue’s current work focuses on tobacco, obesity, violence and alcohol prevention; the promotion of exercise, fresh foods and after school programs; and other products and services that promote healthy living. Most of Rescue’s behavior change campaigns focus on teens (13 – 17) and young adults (18 – 26), resulting in unrivaled experience in adolescent behavior change campaigns. Rescue is a full-service agency, providing research, strategy, creative, production, web, traditional media, social media, policy change, youth engagement and experiential marketing services to clients in over a dozen states and provinces, as well as to federal government agencies.

Rescue provides comprehensive behavior change marketing programs. We begin with our proprietary formative research process, Peer Science™. Through this process, we segment the audience into “peer crowds,” which are the macro-level connections between peer groups with similar interests, lifestyles, influencers, and habits. Then, we investigate the values, information, habits, and/or structural challenges that drive the unhealthy behavior or prevent people from performing the healthy behavior to determine whether a policy change, knowledge change, or norm change program would be most effective.

Rescue is a Rescue provides comprehensive behavior change marketing programs. We begin with our proprietary formative research process, Peer Science™. Through this process, we segment the audience into “peer crowds,” which are the macro-level connections between peer groups with similar interests, lifestyles, influencers, and habits. Then, we investigate the values, information, habits, and/or structural challenges that drive the unhealthy behavior or prevent people from performing the healthy behavior to determine whether a policy change, knowledge change, or norm change program would be most effective.

To learn more about what they’re up to at Rescue visit www.RescueAgency.com.

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Doug Parker

@RescueAgency, #marketing, #youth, #lifestyles, #healthy, #behaviors, #habits, #change, #ourentrepidnetwork, #herewegrow, #forgeyourown

October 13, 2017

#OUREntrepidNetwork – Introducing Ian Gardner, Bryan Hansel and Chanje

www.Chanje.us

ZERO EMISSIONS. 100% ELECTRIC.

In their own words (source – www.chanje.us)

Chanje is a California-based OEM delivering medium duty electric vehicles and turnkey energy infrastructure services for the last mile. Our opportunity is bigger than simply replacing fossil fuel vehicles with electric. Our vision is to create sustainable urban solutions that improve the last mile and positively impact people, businesses, and communities.

Our flagship platform is the first electric medium duty panel van designed and built from the ground up to meet the specific needs of the last mile industry. This approach allows us to offer maximum payload, maximum cargo capacity, the most efficient powertrain, a comfortable driving experience… and it happens to be fully electric. The V8070 is a no compromise solution.

Ready for Chanje?

In the News

A new all-electric delivery truck is on the way, and it’s not from Tesla | Los Angeles Times, August 10, 2017

Ryder makes a “Chanje” with electric van rentals | FOX NEWS, August 14, 2017

To learn more about what they’re up to at Chanje visit www.Chanje.us.

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Doug Parker

@ChanjeEnergy, #transportation, #lastmile, #delivery, #renewables, #environment, #ourentrepidnetwork, #herewegrow, #forgeyourown

October 13, 2017October 13, 2017

#OUREntrepidNetwork – Introducing Arthur Zards and TEDxNaperville 2017

www.TEDxNapierville.com

Bringing you Chicagoland’s best and brightest to share ideas worth spreading.

In 2016, Director Arthur Zards and the TEDxNapierville team unleashed Tim Ryan’s “Dope to Hope” campaign against the U.S. Opioid epidemic. What’s Next!?

TEDxNapierville Press Release

What do a certificate of friendship from the KKK, a machete wielding thug , and Pablo Picasso’s paint have in common?

Naperville (November 10, 2017) – TEDxNaperville is an annual free-thinking conference that brings the brightest minds of Chicagoland and beyond to Naperville to share ideas worth spreading. The conference will be held Nov. 10 from 1pm-7pm at the Yellow Box, Naperville.

Since its inaugural conference in 2010, they’ve become the longest-running independent TED conference in the Midwest with well over 1 million talk views and thousands of previous attendees. “It’s the Lollapalooza of ideas,” says TEDxNaperville founder and curator Arthur Zards, “we bring a very unique and diverse group of thought leaders to challenge your perceptions.”

TEDxNaperville speakers represent a diverse collection of local forward-thinkers, some include:

· Daryl Davis, unorthodox racial conversationalist, who solves racial discourse, yet has received a certificate of friendship from the Ku Klux Klan

· Lynne Franklin, persuasive communicator, who is so persuasive, she once talked her way out of being held hostage with a person with a machete.

· Dr. Volker Rose, nanoscale materials physicist, who uses the world largest advanced photo source to analyze Pablo Picassos paint

· Robert Renteria, a civil right leader, who’s story is an inspirational book, a comic book, a coloring book, and even a play.

· Subhi, Hinda pop jazz artist, once a wall street employee, now writing music by fusing jazz and Hindi

· Dr. Ed Ellison, CEO of the Southeast Permanente Medical Group, who is re- inventing how Doctor work and train.

For more information on then other speaker, and to register, go to www.TEDxNaperville.com. The program cost ranges from $75 per ticket.The cost includes one TEDxNaperville Adventure (included with admission price based on availability) and a reception following the event.

About TEDx Naperville

TEDx Naperville is an all-volunteer army and all proceeds go directly into putting on the highest quality event each year. For more information, visit tedxnaperville.com, facebook.com/tedxnaperville, twitter.com/tedxnaperville, or view talks at tedxnaperville.com/talks.

About TEDx, x = independently organized event

About TED | Ideas Worth Spreading

To learn more about what they’re up to TEDxNapierville visit www.tedxnaperville.com.

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Thank you Arthur Zards for your leadership and commitment to TEDx and helping to initiate and spread ideas worth sharing. #youkickassmyfriend

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Doug Parker | Linkedin

@TEDxNapierville, #2017, #Napierville, #IL, #ideasworthsharing, #ourentrepidnetwork, #herewegrow, #youkickassmyfriend

October 9, 2017October 9, 2017

#OUREntrepidNetwork: Introducing Startup Weekend Conejo Valley – Sports, November 3-5, 2017 in Thousand Oaks, California

http://startupweekendconejovalley.com

Calling all startup junkies, makers, inventors, coders, and sports enthusiast!

SWCV-Sports (source – www.startupweekendconejovalley.com)

We are looking for the next big thing in Sports, Fitness, and Performance.

Startup Weekend is a 54 hour event, where attendees pitch ideas, form teams and launch companies/products. The event is very community focused and provides a place for budding entrepreneurs to find co-founders, mentors and momentum for their ideas.

Participants have 60 seconds pitch an idea of concept , the pitches are whittled down to the top ideas, and then teams form around the ideas to come out with several developed companies. Finally, the weekend culminates with demonstrations in front of an audience of judges and potential investors on Sunday for Demo Day.

Sports Academy is the only fully integrated, multi-disciplinary athletic training and integrated sports medicine facility designed to elevate the performance of athletes of all ages and ability levels. Facilitated by premier coaches, certified trainers, and medical and recovery professionals, we provide the tools, inspiration, and guidance necessary for every athlete to excel. Combined with state-of-the-art technology, a biomechanics lab, sports science, and the development of mental fitness and acuity, our sport-specific and athlete-specific programs are designed to guide athletes toward their optimal state of performance.

To learn more about Startup Weekend Conejo Valley and how you can participate and support visit www.startupweekendconejovalley.com.

Please help support the Startup Weekend Conejo valley team by giving this a LIKE and SHARE it with your wider social networks.

Thank you to the combined effort of the leaders and volunteers on the TechStars, HUB101.la, SportsAcademy.us and the Startup Weekend Conejo Valley teams for your support of our community of athletes, innovators and entrepreneurs.

www.TechStars.com, www.HUB101.la, www.SportsAcademy.us

Here WE Grow!

#StartupWeekendConejoValley-Sports, @TechStars, @HUB101, @SportsAcademyHQ, #ThousandOaks, #CA, #sports, #tech, #innovation, #entrepreneur, #startups, #ourentrepidnetwork, #herewegrow

October 8, 2017

#OUREntrepidNetwork – Introducing Robbie Flynn and Canterbury North America

www.CanterburyUS.com

The World’s Original Rugby Brand

Founder and CEO Robbie Flynn and Westlake Village, California based CanterburyUS Rugby sports apparel and equipment company continue to encourage the growth and development of rugby across North America through love of the game and by providing support and partnership to organizations focused on player and community development.

In their own words (source – www.canterburyus.com)

OUR History

In 1904 three men began making tough woollen garments in a small town in New Zealand. John Lane, Pringle Walker and Alfred Rudkin were English natives turned proud Kiwis. Such was their love for their adopted homeland, they named their company after the area in which they settled – Canterbury. From its very beginnings, this was a brand rooted in the New Zealand soil. Like the Kiwi landscape itself, it was rugged and uncompromising. When the time came to give the company a logo, the founders naturally chose three kiwis. Canterbury was becoming a national institution, a byword for Kiwi qualities of trustworthiness, resilience and hard work. Inevitably, the other great New Zealand institution – the All Blacks rugby team – would eventually choose Canterbury too. Thus began an association that would last for decades and would etch three kiwis not just onto jerseys, but into the folklore of the game and its growth around the world.

OUR Brand

For over a century Canterbury has dedicated itself to making stylish, crafted products that are built to last. At every stage we’ve challenged ourselves to come up with innovations that make our kit – and sometimes even the game itself – even better. So we study the game forensically, talking to players about what they need and value developing and testing ideas with fanatical precision. This relentless drive has delivered landmark technical innovations: the loop neck, the rubber button, the base layer. Today, we apply this combination of respect for history and forward-looking product development across all of our ranges from casual sportswear to training kit to the elite international rugby strip. We take our responsibility to the game very seriously. Where tradition meets design – that’s where you’ll find Canterbury.

To learn more about Canterbury North America visit www.CanterburyUS.com

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Doug Parker | Linkedin

October 8, 2017

#OUREntrepidNetwork – Introducing Stephanie Benedetto and Queen of Raw

www.queenofraw.com

Innovative and Sustainable Fabrics for Independent Designers

In their own words (source – www.QueenOfRaw.com)

Queen of Raw is the premiere online marketplace to sell unused fabrics & buy high end raw materials.

RETAILERS, FACTORIES, MILLS: Stop sitting on excess stock. Free up space and generate revenue NOW.

DESIGNERS, CRAFTERS, STUDENTS: Don’t fall victim to buying more fabric than you need. Lower minimums. Lower prices. Eco-friendly. All found HERE.

Quality raw materials are being wasted every day and it’s affecting people, planet, & profit. Queen of Raw is on a mission to fix this.

Founded in New York City by its CORE TEAM. Named a LAUNCH Innovator by NASA, NIKE, IKEA, & DELL. No one does it like the Queen.

In the news

Queen of Raw: An online marketplace for sustainable materials for the fashion and lifestyle industry – Stephanie Beneditto interview (Vimeo) | LAUNCH Nordic

NYC Women in Tech: Stephanie Benedetto of Queen of Raw | www.AlleyWatch.com, 08.2017

Queen Of Raw & WFEN (Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network) Join Forces In Sustainable Fashion | NEW YORK CITY, NY: – 19 APRIL 2017 – Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network (WFEN)

To learn more about what they’re up to at Queen of Raw visit www.queenofraw.com.

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Doug Parker | Linkedin

October 8, 2017

#OUREntrepidNetwork – Introducing Molly Morse and Mango Materials

www.mangomaterials.com

Turning Methane into Fabric

Led by Founder and CEO Molly Morse, San Francisco based Mango Materials turns Methane waste into materials that can be used to make your next T-shirt or carpet for your house–and then recycled in a closed loop.

In their own words (source – www.mangomaterial.com)

Mango Materials produces a naturally occurring biopolymer from waste biogas (methane) that is economically competitive with conventional oil-based materials. Mango Materials is a start-up with a first-class team of engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and innovators. Mango Materials was incorporated in 2010 and received its first round of funding in 2011.

In 2012, Mango Materials was chosen as the grand prize winner of $630,000 for the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge Business Plan Competition. The team received the prize in New York City at a dinner that was a part of the Clinton Global Initiative. In 2013, a Phase II National Science Foundation grant was received and in 2014, Mango Materials was honored to receive the award for Excellence in Technology Research at CleanEquity Monaco presented by HSH Prince Albert II. In 2015, Mango Materials continues to scale their technology and continues to earn more accolades, including Top Green Chemistry Innovator by LAUNCH and Think Beyond Plastic’s “Most Innovative Business” award. Recently, Mango Materials was voted the #5 “Hottest” Emerging Company in the Advanced Bioeconomy 2016-17 by Biofuels Digest.

In the news

The Shirt of the Future will be Made by Methane-Eating Bacteria | FastCompany.com, 10.03.17

WE NEED AN ECOSYSTEM OF THINKERS AND SOLVERS FROM UNLIKELY PLACES (Video), interview with Molly Morse | LAUNCHCircularInnovationSummit, LAUNCH.org

To learn more about what they’re up to at Mango Materials visit www.MangoMaterials.com

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Doug Parker | Linkedin