Title Change

In preparation for the trip to Iceland, the title of this blog is changing from "Dangerous Obsessions" to "Green Ice".

The Cycle

When you eat, you destroy. However in this destruction, you recycle. And when you die, you give it back.

The Nature of Business

I am researching Benefit Corporations for an organization called Dirt Corps, and frankly, I'm getting upset.

I hate the machinery of business.

Businesses are social structures designed to extract money. You can call them many things and give them wonderful mission statements, but at the end of the day, a business makes money.

They asked me, "What is your pie-in the-sky vision for a Dirt Corps Company?"

I don't have a pie-in the-sky vision. I know what a business is, and they don't. Businesses are not for public good. They provide the illusion of convenience, while extracting resources.

A proper business goes a "viking'. They plunder and pillage. They waste the environment and eventually disintegrate. They get bigger and squash their competitors. Then when nothing is left to extract, they die.

A business is a low form of social organization, and as a species, I think we can do better. .

So I finally found a group that helps me to do good in this world, and they want to become a business? Ok, fine.

What is my vision for this business? I want business to act as an independent contractor, perhaps as an LLC. I hope it helps the rest of Dirt Corps to become a training ground for future environmental change. I hope it builds a few rain gardens, it makes a little money, it supports a couple of families, and then before it gets big and finds something to exploit, it dies. I hope it stays small, does a little good and then it dies.

On the other hand, I hope the organization of Dirt Corps lasts a long time and continues to do good. Do you see the difference? Do you understand?