BY RINALDO BRUTOCO Southern Santa Barbara County is literally at the end of the line in terms of the electrical transmission grid. Sixty-six percent of our power is carried through a single pair of high voltage transmission lines owned by Southern California Edison (Edison). They sit in the back of the foothills that ring our […]
Montecito Community Microgrid Status Report (December 2019)
The World Business Academy, in partnership with the contractor we selected, the Clean Coalition, has been building support for the Montecito Community Microgrid Initiative (MCMI), a project featuring three “behind-the-meter” critical facility microgrids located at the Montecito Fire District (MFD), Montecito Water District (MWD), and Montecito Union School (MUS) in Montecito’s Upper Village. To date, […]
Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors Recognizes a Climate Emergency
SANTA BARBARA, CA — On December 10 , 2019, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors approved a Declaration of a Climate Emergency introduced by County Supervisor Das Williams. The declaration followed a Washington Post article featuring Santa Barbara, which is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the country. In under two […]
Rinaldo Brutoco on VoiceAmerica’s Conscious Business for a Flourishing World
On December 13th, 2019, VoiceAmerica launched the first episode of a radio show titled Conscious Business for a Flourishing World. The second episode, along with a Conscious Business magazine edition, will debut in January 2020. VoiceAmerica is the leading worldwide producer of radio programming. The broadcaster covers topics like health and wellness and empowerment, and […]
Celebrating 2019 at the Gratitude Gathering
We are grateful to have enjoyed the company of our close family and friends at our annual Gratitude Gathering. This year, in addition to thanking our friends and supporters for a fantastic year of active participation, we celebrated independent journalism, both in our local community and throughout the world. Given the fragile state of our democratic […]
Building Harmony between Spirit and Community to Face Climate Change: Monika Penukonda Taylor to appear on Solutions News Radio on November 15, 2019
SANTA BARBARA, California — On Friday, November 15th, Solutions News radio will host Monika Penukonda Taylor, Director at Divine Lineage Healing Center located in Mendocino County, California. Monika will be in Santa Barbara to raise awareness and funding for projects that will exhibit possible ways to live in harmony as a community in times of […]
A Letter to Business Roundtable
Earlier this week, the Academy’s own Rinaldo S. Brutoco sent a letter to Business Roundtable President and CEO Joshua Bolten. In light of Business Roundtable’s new definition of corporations to serve all stakeholders, Mr. Brutoco has put forth the mission of the Academy as well as the potential of Business Roundtable to benefit from working […]
Global Citizens Club Meeting: Designing Dreams from Derricks
On November 6th, 2019, we concluded the Global Citizens Club 2019 conference series on “Greening our Infrastructure.” With the company of over 100 Santa Barbara community members and four key panelists, “Designing Dreams from Derricks” focused on the new discussion of the decommissioning of oil platforms off the coast of Santa Barbara. With a controversial […]
Business Warrior Monk: Core Principles
By Rinaldo S. Brutoco, Founding President of World Business Academy In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. – Dag Hammarskjöld, U.N. Secretary-General (1953-1960) If we are to address the many challenges of our era, ranging from climate change to income inequality, leaders must increasingly embrace a unique combination […]
Whitepaper Published on The Methane Accelerator
On June 6, 2019, the World Business Academy released for publication a 31-page whitepaper addressing a global phenomenon it calls the “Methane Accelerator”: cumulative emissions from massive deposits of methane gas, sequestered for millennia in permafrost, glaciers and marine sediment, but which are now being released due to warmer atmospheric and ocean temperatures. For at […]
Solutions News Updates: March 2019
The World Business Academy’s newest project, “Solutions News” with host Rinaldo Brutoco, has hit the ground running! Each week, the show offers listeners inspiring ideas, new solutions and clever strategies to solve the local, national and global challenges we face each day. We also feature interviews with solutions thinkers from various fields who are courageously […]
WATCH: Video of Global Citizens Club Feb 2019 Event – “The Year of Climate Mobilization”
Please enjoy this video recording of the Feb 19, 2019 GCC Public event “2019: The Year of Climate Mobilization” focusing on grassroots mobilization in the face of the greatest challenge to our society since WWII. Speakers: Joan Hartmann, Margaret Klein Salamon, Rose Strauss. Panel Moderated by Rinaldo Brutoco. Video Message from Bill McKibben. Location: Belmond […]