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#OUREntrepidNetwork – Introducing Doug Busch and pH Living

www.pHLiving.us
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.

Please help support Doug and the pH Living team by giving this a LIKE, SHARE it with your wider works and JOIN their communities on Linkedin and Facebook.

Here WE Grow!

Doug Parker | Linkedin

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

www.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

Please help support Gary, Matt and the Water.org team by giving this a LIKE, SHARE it with your extended social networks and JOIN their communities on Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube and Instagram.

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

Here WE Grow!

Doug Parker | Linkedin-kickassdoug

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#OUREntrepidNetwork – Introducing Kenton Lee, Because International and The Shoe that Grows

www.facebook.com/TheShoeThatGrows/
www.facebook.com/TheShoeThatGrows/

“What if there was a shoe that could adjust and expand—so kids always had a pair of shoes that fit?” | Kenton Lee

In their own words (https://www.linkedin.com/company/18239361/)

There are over 300 million children who do not have shoes, and countless more with shoes that do not fit. Learn how The Shoe That Grows is working to change that!

Because International is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that believes that everyone living in desperate poverty, especially a child, deserves opportunities to succeed. Our mission is to use the positive cycle of innovation to fight the negative cycle of poverty.

Our first product – The Shoe That Grows – has been designed specifically for kids living in poverty. With shoes, kids are healthier, attend school more often, and are more confident. The Shoe That Grows has 5x the impact of ordinary shoes because it expands 5 sizes and lasts for years. Over 100,000 pairs have been distributed in over 90 countries, and with production starting in Ethiopia, we’re not only blessing kids with shoes but people with jobs. We’re committed to making things better by making better things and look forward to releasing our next product soon while also coming alongside local entrepreneurs to help them make their own innovative ideas come to life.

Over 1.5 billion people suffer from soil transmitted diseases worldwide

Without shoes, children are especially vulnerable to soil-transmitted diseases and parasites that can cause illness and even death.

Children who get sick miss school, can’t help their families, and suffer needlessly. And since children’s feet grow so quickly, they often outgrow donated shoes within a year, leaving them once again exposed to illness and disease.

The Shoe That Grows can change all that.

In the news

The Shoe that Grows Hope Around the World | Good Feed, 9.26.2017

To learn more about what they’re up to at Because International and visit www.theshoethatgrows.org.

Please support Kenton and the Because International team by giving this a LIKE, SHARE it with your wider social networks and JOIN their communities on Facebook,

Here WE Grow!

Doug Parker | Linkedin-kickassdoug

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

www.rescueagency.com
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.

Please support Kristin and the Rescue team by giving this a LIKE, SHARE it with your wider social networks and JOIN their communities on Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Here WE Grow!

Doug Parker

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

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#OUREntrepidNetwork – Introducing Ian Gardner, Bryan Hansel and Chanje

www.Chanje.us
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.

Please help support Ian Gardner, Bryan Hansel and the Chanje team by giving this a LIKE, SHARE it with your wider social networks and JOIN their communities on Linkedin, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Here WE Grow!

Doug Parker

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

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#OUREntrepidNetwork – Introducing Boyan Slat and The Ocean Cleanup

www.theoceancleanup.com

The Ocean Cleanup’s mission is to develop advanced technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic.

In their own words (source – https://www.linkedin.com/company/2836723/)

Boyan Slat is a Dutch inventor and entrepreneur creating technologies to solve societal problems. He is the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, which develops advanced technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic. Boyan founded this effort when he was just 16 years old.

The main idea behind The Ocean Cleanup is to let the ocean currents do the work. An installation of Ushaped screens channels floating plastic to a central point. The concentrated plastic can then be extracted and shipped to shore for recycling into durable products. Our passive systems will remove half the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 5 years.

www.theoceancleanup.com/technology/

In the news

‘It’s important to at least try’: Can this 23-year old clear the oceans of plastic waste? | The Telegraph, Guy Kelly, 4 August 2017

Boyan Slat: How we will rid the oceans of plastic (May 2017) | on YouTube

 First Estimate to Quantify Global Plastic input from Rivers into Oceans | 7 June 2017

To learn more about The Ocean Cleanup visit www.theoceancleanup.com

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Doug Parker | Linkedin – kickassdoug

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#OUREntrepidNetwork – Introducing Matt Petersen and the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI)

www.laincubator.com

A strategic imperative to build a green economy

CEO Matt Petersen and the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator team are helping promising cleantech startups create a green, inclusive economy.

In their own words (source – https://www.linkedin.com/company/2310734/)

The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) is a private non-profit organization helping to accelerate the commercialization of clean technologies by offering flexible office space, CEO coaching, mentoring, and access to a robust network of partnerships and capital. LACI was founded in 2011 as a cluster-driven economic development initiative supported by the City of Los Angeles, The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles. Recognized as one of the most innovative business incubators in the world by UBI, LACI identifies local entrepreneurs across multiple cleantech business sectors and guides them to market, creating jobs that advance L.A.’s green economy. In just five years, LACI has helped 67 companies raise $134M in funding, created 1,500 jobs, and delivered more than $335M in long term economic value for the City of Los Angeles. LACI operates out of the La Kretz Innovation Campus, with satellite offices at California State University, Northridge and Silicon Valley, is the organizer of an annual Cleantech Global Showcase and founder of the Network for Global Innovation (NGIN).

In the news.

SoCal Tech – March 15, 2017 – Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator Aims at Diversity Inclusion with New Effort

To learn more about the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator visit www.laincubator.org

Please help support Matt Petersen and the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator team by giving this a LIKE, SHARE it with your extended social networks and JOIN their communities on Linkedin, Twitter, FaceBook and G+.

Here WE Grow!

Doug Parker | Linkedin – kickassdoug

@LACIncubator, #cleantech, #incubator, #startups, #LosAngeles, #California, #OUREntrepidNetwork, #HereWeGrow, #ForgeYourOwn

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OUR Entrepid Network – Introducing Chris Cochran and ReFED

www.refed.com

UNLOCKING VALUE THROUGH FOOD WASTE REDUCTION

In their own words; source – www.refed.com/about.

ReFED is a collaboration of over thirty business, nonprofit, foundation and government leaders committed to reducing United States food waste in the United States. ReFED seeks to unlock new philanthropic and investment capital, along with technology, business and policy innovation, to achieve this goal, which will catalyze tens of thousands of new jobs, recover billions of meals annually for the hungry, and reduce national water use and greenhouse gas emissions. ReFED was formed in early 2015 to create a Roadmap to Reduce U.S. Food Waste, the first ever national economic study and action plan driven by a multi-stakeholder group committed to tackling food waste at scale. Recently, a number of initiatives have raised awareness of the magnitude of the problem. The Roadmap is designed to fill the gap between awareness and action, by creating transparency in the waste flows, costs and opportunities of a more efficient food system achieved by preventing, recovering, and recycling food waste. The Roadmap is the result of a collaborative stakeholder process, including input and support from ReFED members and over 80 additional industry experts.

In the news.

ReFED Names Chris Cochran as its First Executive Director; source – www.Waste360.com, Waste360 Staff | Mar 10, 2017

7 EXCITING FINDINGS FROM REFED’S FOOD WASTE REPORT; source – www.sustainableamerica.org/blog/, March 14, 2016 by Amy Leibrock

To learn more about ReFED visit them at www.refed.com. 

Please support Exec. Dir. Chris Cochran and the ReFED team by giving this a LIKE, SHARE it with your extended social networks, and consider joining their communities on Linkedin and Twitter.

Here WE Grow!

Doug Parker | Linkedin – kickassdoug

@ReFED_NoWaste, #ReFED, #HereWEGrow, @theideaforge, #theideaforge, #forgeyourown, #ourentrepidnetwork, #EntrepidDNA, #kickassdoug

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OUR Entrepid Network – Introducing Eric Ellestad and Local Roots Farms

www.localrootsfarms.com

Improving global health by building a better food system. Eat fresh. Eat clean. Eat local. 

 

In their own words; source – www.localrootsfarms.com

Local Roots Family

At Local Roots, we design, build and operate the world’s most productive indoor farming solutions. We believe the key to a more sustainable future requires eliminating supply-chain risks and undoing the commoditization of the food industry. That’s why our Local Roots Family is building a distributed network of cutting-edge farms throughout the world to grow the freshest, healthiest produce possible.

Food Safety

Food should heal you, not make you sick. That’s why we are dedicated to safe growing and packaging processes. At the end of every plant’s journey is a person. We make sure they are safe, happy and healthy—all the way to your fork.

• Certified Primus GFS • Certified Non-GMO • Certified Organic

TerraFarm

The TerraFarm’s controlled environment allows the very best care for our crops 24/7. Produce grown outdoors can be vulnerable to weather patterns and climate change. The TerraFarm is weather, climate and planet agnostic. The TerraFarm solution is perfect for on-planet & off-planet food production.

 

In the news:

Local Roots showcases traveling indoor farm; on www.freshplaza.com, published 3/14/17

To learn more about Local Roots Farms visit them at www.localrootsfarms.com.

Please support CEO Eric Ellestad and the Local Roots Farms team by giving this a LIKE, SHARE it with your networks and consider joining their communities on FaceBook, Linkedin, Twitter, and Instagram.

 

Here WE Grow!

Doug Parker | Linkedin-kickassdoug

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OUR Entrepid Network – Introducing Scott Fulbright, Steve Albers and Living Ink Technologies

www.livinginktechnologies.com

Introducing the Future of Ink.

In their own words; source – www.livinginktechnologies.com

Scott and Steve met when they were PhD students in the Cell and Molecular Biology Program at Colorado State University. They were both researching algae projects related to biofuels and bioproducts. In late 2013, it was brought to their attention that the majority of printing ink used in the world are produced from toxic petroleum products. This inspired them to use algae as biopigments for the world’s most sustainable ink.

Introducing the future of ink. We have developed two types of algae ink:

1. SAVING THE WORLD ink. Sustainable algae derived ink that is 100% plant-based, renewable and biodegradable. The majority of the ink is algae, grown in our lab, turned into ink, applied to paper. Just like regular petroleum ink, but without the petroleum.

2. FUN SCIENCE ink. The world’s first time-lapse ink that allows you to write, sketch, draw, or paint your story over time. The magic happens when the ink literally grows when exposed to light.

Is algae the ink of the future? | Scott Fulbright | TEDxMileHigh; Aug. 22, 2016

Living Ink with a $225K investment through a Small Business Innovation Research grant; Dec. 14, 2016

To learn more about Living Ink Technologies visit them at www.livinginktechnologies.com

Please support Scott Fulbright and the Living Ink Technologies team by giving this a LIKE, SHARE it with your networks and join their communities on FaceBook and Twitter.

Here WE Grow!

Doug Parker | Linkedin-kickassdoug