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...promoting, nurturing, and protecting human capital.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Net Impact Austin Chapter Speech

Thank you for the amazing opportunity to serve our Net Impact professional chapter as its President. My name is Blake Mendez, and I am a financial manager and strategic thinker in the solar industry.

We are living in one of the most amazing times in a growing technopolis with tremendous social physics; but, we also live in a perilous time.  Our oceans are rising and our world that we have commoditized over the last 200 years is poisoning us and killing our children.  
We have the opportunity to redesign our future.  

Your Net Impact Austin board will be meeting within the next month to redesign our future. We will be looking out over the next 3 years at how best to create and deploy our collective resources within the Net Impact framework.  It will be a priority to continue our solid work with GivePulse, SXSW Eco, and I Live Here, I Give Here.  Our bandwidth will expand to include additional alliance stakeholders focused on improving the world.  

Good design is necessary.  We must turn the tide against epic sociopolitical and environmental challenges.  Our collective capacity and capability is unstoppable with our amazing skills, contacts, and resources.  The choice is ours.  

Please let me know what are your hot-button sociopolitical and environmental challenges that we can possibly address through Net Impact Austin.