June 15. My first E4S meeting. What a great group of energized people. And they had the good sense to have the meeting at Great Lakes Brewery. The topic for the night was sustainable transportation. Everything from walking to high tech bikes to hybrid cars to mass transit to biodiesel fuel. How do you implement it? How do you make it practical? How do you get people and companies to buy in? The presenters were not just on soap boxes saying “this must be done”. They addressed real life hurdles that have to be overcome to make this happen. Creative people with a grasp of the real world. These are the kind of people who accomplish big things. I like the feeling I get when I am surrounded by a group of people who refuse to put limits on creativity. No judgments. No censoring. No problem telling you something new and different. New technology, old technology in a new application or form, all with the common goal of solving some particular sustainability problem. Small start-up companies, big ideas. This is how the world gets changed. Don’t think so. At one time people thought you couldn’t build a boat out of steel. Think about it.
Tags: E4S, Sustainability