we're screwed

we’re screwed. now what are you gonna do about it? Social Innovation @ Ivey Forum March 24, 2010

First, a bit about...

unschooler

runner

entrepreneur

‘career path’ ‘founding’ 1991 2010 ‘working’

Life is messy and unpredictable.

I don’t know what I’m doing.

Everything I do...

teaches me about what i’m good at...

connects me with people I can do more stuff with...

challenges me to look deeper and ask...

What’s the point?

13,700,000,000 years ago

4,450,000,000 years ago

130,000 years ago

7,300 years ago - Agriculture

150 years ago - Industrial Revolution

We are powerful.

1945 - Hiroshima

We are dangerous.

1983 - Exxon Valdez Spill

1994 - Rwanda

2000 - Aral Sea dies

We thought we were in control.

2001 - 911

2006 - Climate Change

2008 - Global markets collapse

We were wrong.

“A ﬂaw in the model... ...that deﬁnes how the world works.”

...are making our planet inhospitable.

We are killing each other.

We are killing ourselves.

We’re screwed.

But, there’s hope.

If we created this mess...

... then we can create something better.

social entrepreneurship = creating a better world

it happens... at many levels

social beneﬁt social impact systems change

it happens... through many forms

government Social Social Non-proﬁt Purpose For-proﬁt Enterprise Business social movements

it happens... using many tools

technology Social Innovation policy ﬁnance

but it all starts... with people

Prof. Muhammad Yunus

Tzeporah Berman

Tom Szaky

it all starts with...

what are you going to do? Michael Lewkowitz, Igniter michael@igniter.com http://igniter.com twitter etc. “Igniter”

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