Portafolio de Negocios Verdes - Oficina de Negocios Verdes del Ministerio de Ambiente de Colombia. / Colombia's Green Business Portfolio -Colombia's Green Business Office -Ministry of Environment

PORTAFOLIO DE NEGOCIOS VERDES  / GREEN BUSINESS PORTFOLIO  

Green Biz on one of Colombia's most Bio diverse Region the URABA Antioqueño, First we are going to create a vision using FSSD with all the key sectors of the region and then we will work on a Uraba sustainable Vision and implement ABCD model , Back-casting , to prioritize and the implement actions with the governor office, municipality, chamber of commerce, universities, etc

NEGOCIOS VERDES EN COLOMBIA

Nuestro vídeo de Negocios Verdes . Our Green Business Office:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev_lFDnOgHc

My self nominated for the Senate of the Republic of Colombia

Yes , after all the frustrations due the disastrous legislation on sustainability in Colombia I had taken the decision to accept the nomination from the ¨Partido de la U¨ or U party which is the official party right now and of course I will focused on all the sustainability aspects that this nation requires to really  incorporate sustainability into the Colombia State, Now lets hope I have luck in this hard and challenging part of my life.

Climate Leaders Corps - Attending  ! Next 30th of July 2013 at Chicago.

http://climaterealityproject.org/leadership-corps/

Proud to learn skills and use toolkits for a better and wiser debate, in a few words "to arm my self"more to work on the sustainability field

New Image and sister company

Green Plus S.A is growing here in San Jose-Costa Rica , we are fully inmerse on several projects on the metropolitan area . Our new Image and marketing is giving us great results . we plan to consolidate the operation this year hopefully . We hope by the next entry in this blog we can present to you the new big direction of GREEN +  that will consolidate our strategy . "always keep the faith"!

Acerca del alcalde de Bogota y el debate final en RCN

hummm,, creo simplemente que en mi caso votare por  quien tiene claridad en el tema de sostenibilidad y cambio climatico y veo lamentablemente que solo uno la tiene clara con respecto a combustibles fosiles, y por este votare para alcalde , voto por la evolucion y bueno varias veces hablo de buses electricos, independizarse de combustibles fosiles , otros hablaron de vivienda, de construccion , de pavimentacion, que son temas correlacionados pero el directo culpable son los GEI generados en su inmesa mayoria por los automoviles de esta gran ciudad y solo uno lo supo esto es claridad y vision estrategica por eso para esta persona es mi es voto

GREN PLUS OPENING IN COLOMBIA!:

Greenplus  S.A currently with operations in Central America is finally starting operations in Colombia, Ya iniciamos Operaciones en Colombia!

4 years to change our world!!! LETS CHANGE -Or...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_6iTCo5Ci8

Si se puede,, OJO hay muchas empresas que SON PURO GREENWASHING  lo bueno es que estas caen solo por intervencion divina!!!

FSSD; The Framework on a simple way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFCNCQleCuk&list=QL&feature=BF

My social trojan horse approach to facilitate sustainable change on a capitalistic world

My Trojan horse approach to facilitate sustainable change on a capitalistic world:

Most organizations look sustainability as a side objective or not a clear real driver to adopt it , of course we all know that sustainability is the most important asset that any organization of our days and future must assume ,however there still is a huge lack of understanding. There most be an new approach for companies, business or organizations, a way to adopt sustainability on more pragmatic way :

Back in K town Sweden many of my former classmates knew about this social approach, basically and by knowing the social capitalistic language codes we have to implement solutions using these codes as for example savings, sales, etc basically showing the numbers! on potential real projects to our clients , of course one most show this numbers with solid studies that support these figures, once our client is in the ah ha moment and see the $$$ benefits, and then, they hired you! ,you start to show these numbers (may take some months initially) by implementing the eco solutions that drives savings, sales and other economic benefits by for example eco-efficiencies, then, the real change starts by implementing the Trojan horse strategy that is changing people minds and hearts trough coaching (ei. FSSD) and measurable matters (ei. green balance scorecard ) that ensure the right path towards a real sustainable vision. Is always difficult to find an organization to implement the Trojan horse but once you really implemented is great how it really becomes part of the DNA of people and organizations. Once they adopted for their initial ($) driver, then, it can not be stop it anymore: a Trojan horse.

Some of Costa Rica on a Video, Nature and balance is the key

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZFOhUyBWKU

Costa Rica small but big

http://www.newsweek.com/feature/2010/the-world-s-best-countries.html

The end of British Petroleum or BP´S strategic Transformation

Whose to blame on the Oil Spill of the Gulf of Mexico?, I should say there are two answers; 1. the Easy answer BP,, 2. the real answer is US! Yea our society is the one to blame we are addict to dirty oil, unfortunable these are the kind of catastrophes’ that become a wake up call for governments to shift to clean energy, I remember back in Sweden we present the case of BP Solar and BP Wind as cases in which the oil industry is trying to shift towards a sustainable clean energy , after the gulf spill catastrophes and the fact that BP may have their final days on a medium term due the law suits, clean up payments and the most important nobody will like to make business with such a company,, I am wondering shouldn´t consider create an capitalized as much as they can their efforts on sustainable clean energy , I mean there a lot of people that work on BP and BP trade mark is now totally associated to major pollution, etc, an strategic advisor a good one will see this as an opportunity to redirect efforts into a sustainability path sort of offsetting their major previous mistakes, helping somehow in the recovery of the gulf, put all or most of their revenues into clean energy and sustainable projects , eliminate at maximum their drilling operation, or gradually shift it core business into clean energy and sustainability. Anyway the gulf of Mexico, all it´s biodiversity, the people of the zone areas the real victims or I should say we are victims of our major and sick dependency on oil. Of course as you all may know: WE MUST CHANGE!, However and unfortunable we need major steps from our governments, leaders and companies. The good thing you can do a lot to reduce or ELIMINATE the oil consumption on a personal scale, so at the end it´s a matter of CHANGE or not , or I should say Change will come but when? , can we do it before is to late?,, sometimes I am afraid that will takes us many catastrophes like this or whorst,, such is humane nature. One only can really hope that we dont have to deal with this issues no more.

Biofueling Guanacaste

Here, having fun with the old Land Rover (old as me!) and it has been fully recoverd and takes 100% BIODIESEL, waste oil and runs great!!! and super cheap in Guanacaste-Costa Rica´s South -Zone , its great to re cycle an old car as this, and make it run as new.

Juan Robles Arquitectos Implementing The Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development in Costa Rica

Juan Robles Arquitechs in San Jose-Costa Rica has educated all it's staff on Strategic Sustainability , It was just great to work with all these guys on their way to adopt sustainability in their DNA , Juan Robles Arquitechs are a pioners on green building developments in the incredible country, Great News for our Costa Rican Balance .

Felicidades a todos en Juan Robles Arquitectos y ovio a Juan por su vision! http://www.roblesarq.com/

How to bring sustainability principles in a globalized society without principles and values? .

For a long time I have wonder how this thing of sustainability principles can be really taken by our society but then and just by observing our society you can see that there is a growing lack of principles and values in our society in general regardless religions or dogmas, the “westernized” ideology is pretty much spread all over the world thanks to television, internet, etc, of curse I do not want to sound moralist or something like that, but the true is that the lack of principals and values bring a new set of rules or principals if there are any, in fact the new set of values if we can call them like that are totally based on the economic power , materialistic ,looks , as matter of fact the westernized society will honor and empower a person who is both successfully economically and “pretty” , that is the real model to follow and in order to pursuit this, persons will do anything to achieve it. So one person that already has “evolutioned” sort of speaking and know that sustainability is the right path and the principles have to be taken for many in our society this persona will assume that there is hopeless to bring values and principles’ to this degree of anarchic of a capitalistic world.

So how to maintain the right track, the sustainability track based on principles’ ?

My thesis perhaps if the market changes rapidly and then the models are “green models” “sustainability” as “chick” etc, then maybe , things will make this whole mass of lethargic undeveloped persons to really grow, and take this principles’ as part of their DNA, and

how can one do such a thing?.

By having strong principles’ and maintaining sharp values, the true is that if peoples do not see you consequent with your values and principles’ , your credibility and any message that you try to present just do not have any validity at all what so ever, and if people recognized you for your values and principles and point you as a crazy person or a visionary that at the end is what a leader is made of, following its convictions ,principles’ and values, so at the end I gues what just saying is that no matter how hard it is ,, never, never lets forget what our values and principles are ,and stick to them that is our best way really to change our decaying world !

3 Years ago and My Balance towards my vision/ 3 a atras y mi balance hacia mi Vision

My class 2006!, and that time spatial planning Masters at BTH,, seems like a long time ago, but there is not a minute I thank god for this new direction of my life, I just love to work on this every second here in Costa Rica and else, all is flowing good and natural. My profesional expectations finally are getting on the right track as well of my personal life, so If I have to make a balance , I should say that is getting every time better and closer, even do I know that this is a continuos and not ending process.

Recession or windows for new opportunities

I remember back in Karlskrona –Sweden while attending the master we had a deep discussion about how come there are so many already proven technologies, clean technologies, green procedures, etc and so disperse and never the less not implemented but in a few envisioned countries and corporations, and then we started to talk about many social and economic theories but ad the end we all concurred that the there must be a drastic shift in what rules our current way of life, most of our occidental way of life is ruled by neoliberal and an economic system based on consumism and non renewal energies.

As I rememberd the basic of policy making and that human behaviors will change and adapt if the conditions are given, change will ocurr in a faster time than we suspect, as the book “The New Economy of Nature , The quest to make Conservation Profitable” by Gretchen C.Daily and Katherine Ellison” : “just as there are threshold in ecosystem ,there are threshold in human behavior, times when cultural evolution moves unexpectedly rapidly. We saw that in dramatic progress in racial justice in the 1960s,the surprise decline of American birthrates in the 70s and the utterly unexpected fall of the Berlin wall and dissolution of the soviet union in the early 1990.

When the time is ripe, society can be transformed virtually overnight”. I am totally positive about this change that is happening now, in fact is GREAT!!,, we need it as society, we need it to reshape the whole thing and the fact that is taking place in the ;leader of our global economic current system the United States with a person that per se is a change for himself, I think that is not just healthy but really necessary, for this new process that we must face as society if we want to prevail in this planet

On the sustainabilty track

Well, The last 4 months and my return to Costa Rica my home town had turn my life again 180 degrees, It was a real turn over , It was good experience working with Swedish Electrolux , had good times and help them on their regional marketing strategies focused on the benefits of more efficent home appliances, now, I am helping them but as a freelance, which is great , this let me work more strategiclly on my projects. here some pics of my last 4 months. the first one is a huge volcano by the offshore of Nicaragua, then Dominican Reupblic, my Flat in San Jose, my Eco/efficient car (hopefully I'll have on the future a Hidrogen car ! ,,jejej , hope sooner than later, anyway here is my alternative when I can not walk or take the Public tranportation system, mean while: I have this little peugeot 206 Natural Gas modified and with certified Co2 stiker for carbon mitigation, I am working in on a better alternative) then party night in San Jose and trying to make some exercise. And if you ever come to central america go to Buffalo Wings BW (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.Not in CR yet) , from one great friend and he is focusing the whole operation into sustainable process and practics, as i.e making and using Biodiesel , and the food is just great,, if you like spice ,this is the place. The night city picture is Guatemala City from my Hotel, yea, I know my Carbon footprint increase a lot,, and belive me I did calculated and I am in the process of offseting this. the last tree pictures is just a bit of the beauty of Costa Rica , Playa Tamarindo and Puerto Viejo at the Costarrican caribean, just little snacks of a country like this where 25% of its territory is protected ,every one have free education (up to universidad de Costa Rica) and one of the few on this planet without Army, ok, Adios amigos and PURA VIDA!,,Until the next one!