Worldwide CO2 emissions (This
Year) (1 ton = 2,000 lbs) 7,274,057,933 (tons)
U.S. Trees Cut Down
(This Year): 334,978,306
Welcome to Envirogeek
Is it possible for one idea to change the world?
The founders of Envirogeek (EG) believe the answer to this rather unique question is a resounding yes. We originally founded this company with the goal and aspiration of achieving financial freedom. Then we were faced with the exciting prospect of creating a company that was larger than ourselves. The direction of EG aligns the company to the values and beliefs shared by the founders. Our intention in creating Envirogeek is to provide a model for what is possible.
“We are haunted by a prevailing sense of spiritual and psychological poverty in the midst of unprecedented material prosperity,”
~
Laurence G. Boldt, author of The Tao of Abundance
According to R. Kaku, the chairman of Canon Inc., “Companies evolve through four stages. The first stage is purely capitalistic, which leads to labor-management conflicts. Overcoming these problems, the company reaches the stage where labor-management relations are based on shared destiny. All people in the company are treated as equal, thus narrowing the gap in income between executives and other workers. Management with a common destiny invites all the parties to share their joys and sorrows as well as their prosperity. Few companies ever evolve to this stage. Overemphasis on this type of solidarity can create a gap between the corporation and society. So in the next stage, the company is considerate of its local community and makes contributions to it. Several companies in Japan and elsewhere have evolved to this stage. But the company may eliminate the barrier between itself and the local community only to provoke friction at the international level. This eventually leads to the fourth stage where a company is committed to serving humankind as a whole for its philosophies and activities"
“True abundance takes into account the commonwealth, that is, the well-being of the entire society,”
~ Laurence G. Boldt, author of The Tao of Abundance
At its 50th anniversary, Canon made the decision to become the fourth kind of company. "Its responsibility is to address the larger conflicts in the world… the growing imbalance between the rich and poor... to set up manufacturing operations in developing countries, to transfer technology, and help them to become self-sufficient." The other global imbalance, which Kaku said was just as critical, is the depletion of the world's natural resources and destruction of the environment. " Linked with this is the fateful question as to whether the deteriorating world will be able to feed is growing population and even be able to sustain life on earth. This is the vital imbalance between mankind existing today and what will exist in the future." The fourth type of company must be positively committed to the challenge of this overriding issue.
"I am convinced," he said, "that if the companies all over the world would join us in this quest, the world would be a vastly better place."
Envirogeek is your resource for an environmentally friendly lifestyle.
