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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Energy

Ecocentricity Blog: Energy Burdens
While my family and I light a fire to create a mood, many in our community are struggling to afford to keep their whole houses warm. What is to be done about energy burdens?

Energy

Ecocentricity Blog: Farming Squared
Farmers are going to be presented with the choice of continuing to farm or selling to solar developers. We absolutely need more installed solar on the grid, but we also need productive farms! So ideally, we would be able to do both simultaneously.

Energy

Ecocentricity Blog: On the Pitch
GridBlock is designed to be the “Grand Central Station” for how solar, battery, EV, and microgrid technologies intersect. And it’s what could make it easier for all of those solutions to do their jobs to the maximum of their potential.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: No Lack of Intelligence
Environmentalists have been beating the drum for years. The consensus that climate change is real; that humans are the primary cause. We’ve implored people to “listen to the scientists." That hasn’t been enough for some people.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: Cause and Effect
Rube Goldberg machines reveal something about the human psyche. Humans tend to think linearly - seeing how A can cause B which can cause C and so on. They like control, and convince themselves that they HAVE control of a full series of events.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: Filling a Gap
Dr. Maathai was a Kenyan scientist, environmentalist, and activist who in 1977 founded the Green Belt Movement, a grassroots organization that organizes women to plant trees and combat deforestation.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: Stewards of the Land
When land is stewarded by Indigenous People, the land tends to be healthier in terms of habitat preservation, biodiversity, soil health, and water quality.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: Proof of the Pudding
In the face of so many social and environmental challenges, humans are beginning to face a reckoning on Earth. We need businesses to lean in and solve those challenges, rather than hide behind the excuse of returning economic gain to shareholders.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Ecocentricity Blog: Food Futurism
If I had to guess, there is one category of science fiction technology that will come to fruition in my lifetime, and it’s of a type that might surprise you a bit. I’m talking about food.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Ecocentricity Blog: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
We seldom hear how coffee comes with an environmental cost. Minds may go to the billions of single-use coffee cups discarded each year; a problem for sure. Specifically, I want to talk about the carbon footprint of drinking coffee itself.

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