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September 2007


We’re lovin’ our late summer veggies and Levi is into a bit of veggie installation art.

Summer

Sun Flower

Oregon is blessed with growing organic vegetables and we waste no time to enjoy. The Corvallis Riverfront Market is a happening place Saturday morning.

OSU President Ed Ray marches with Class of 2011 … nothing like starting the year with a positive vibe. Read the GT story, “New student walk follows same route used for OSU’s graduation march.”



OSU Fall Start
(Courtesy of the Corvallis Gazette-Times)

Check out President Ray podcast from earlier this year…podcasting with Grassroots Learning Project.

Great podcast with social historian Dr. Bruce Piasecki last week and I find the thesis in his new book World Inc provocative as we think about changing climate of global business, The S Frontier, and recipe of cooperation needed to help foster a sustainability vision for our planet. Oregon already leads the way in many of the ideas presented in the book 8 years in the making and now translated in Japanese. Piasecki says capitalism is transforming, companies going global, will confront the issue and learning around going green as well, or risk going extinct … enjoy the podcast!

  • Of the world’s 100 largest economies, 51 are corporations, not nations
  • The top 300 multinationals own 25 percent of the world’s total assets
  • More than 40 percent of all world trade takes place among
    multinational corporations

Listen:


Dr. Bruce Piasecki Dr. Bruce Piasecki

S Curve

“In the growing, global business, there are new grounds for hope in this century.”
- Bruce Piasecki

Oregon State and Wave Energy: Video

Corvallis celebrated its 150th Birthday in concert with Oregon Business is Good! Tour 2007 joining in the celebration. Grassroots Learning Project added to the celebration by podcasting with Duncan Wyse president of Oregon Business Council.

Our podcaster is Aaron Selvig … a business major at OSU. Thanks Aaron!

Listen:

Oregon 2007: The Business is Good! Tour


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