Ojai Permaculture Guild

I currently work as a Researcher at Natural Capital Institute in Sausalito, California, helping to complete the WiserEarth and WiserBusiness projects. For those of us whose goals center upon helping to forge a more sustainable future for our world, these tools provide considerble excitment. It is only through the cooperation of business, government and civil society that sustinability will become a reality. I hope that Wiser will begin to enhance that cooperation.

I am very much interested in the power of holistic approaches toward economic development and poverty alleviation in the developing world. So, I have become an M.B.A. student at the Presidio School of Sustainable Management in San Francisco, California. I hope to be able to help create ways in which developing communities might begin to create, attract and retain business and infrastructure projecs which contribute to the formation of sustainable communities, environments and livelihoods. Currently I am interested in researching the power that sustainable tourism projects hold as a tool to affect the economic development of local communities. I wonder if in addition they might also challenge, educate and inspire consumers to think more critically about how their choices affect the lives of others.

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