The Abundance Cycle - Professor Jay Friedlander @The GrowSmart Maine Annual Meeting 2015

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A Community Solutions FrameworkOctober 20, 2015

Professor Jay FriedlanderSharpe-McNally Chair of Green and Socially Responsible Business

College of the AtlanticBar Harbor, Maine, U.S.A

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Implement

Source: Green Energy Inspiration Off the Coast of Denmark, Cardwell, D., The New York Times, January 17, 2015. Photo credit: Erik Refner


Where do I begin?


An abundant perspectiveProfi

t

People

Planet

3P• Improve the

Workplace• Build Community• Solve Social Issues

• Reduce Waste• Use Waste as a Resource• Regenerate Natural

Capital

• Reduce Risk• Cut Cost• Grow Sales


How?


How?

Tactics


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Reducing demand


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Creating local jobs



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Supplying heat vs. owning a heating system. Generating heat for 75% of the population.


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Agricultural waste = heat. Saving $8 million annually in imported fuel costs.



Waste = Food

Biomimicry

Radical Resource Productivity

Micro-Enterprise

New Entities

Service Profit Chain

Crowding

Base of the Pyramid

Tactics

Sharing Economy

Regenerative Marketing

Building Natural Capital

Impact Investing

Solutions Economy

Unbundling Collaborative ExchangeMake Your Own


INBOUND

OPERATIONS

OUTBOUND

MARKETING

SERVICE

UNSOLD PRODUCTION

• Receiving• Storing• Bringing in

resources

• Activities of the business community

• Physical plant – schools, buildings, etc.

• Homes

• Distribution of social and physical services from policing to power

• Promotion• Positioning

• Engaging with local government and service providers

• Materials created but not used – “waste” streams


Abundance Cycle

INBOUND

OPERATIONS

OUTBOUND

MARKETING

SERVICE

UNSOLD PRODUCTION


INBOUND

OPERATIONS

OUTBOUND

MARKETING

SERVICE

UNSOLD PRODUCTION


Why Do You Exist? What is Your Purpose? 1

Identify Your Strengths/Areas of Opportunity2

Maximize Benefits with the Abundance Cycle & Tactics . . . Reexamine Solutions, Innovate & Identify New Opportunities

3

Communicate with Your Language and Implement4

Measure, Report & Repeat5

Creating abundance


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