Auld Lang Syne BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share Sometimes referred to as the “New Year’s Anthem,” Auld Lang Syne begins with a markedly rhetorical question: Should old times “be forgotten and never brought to mind,” and spends the next several verses confirming the value […]
An H2 Clipper Milestone
H2 Clipper chosen as a member of Dassault’s exclusive 3DEXPERIENCE® Labs accelerator The World Business Academy is thrilled to share an exciting development with respect to H2 Clipper, Inc. Like other projects that have been incubated within the Academy over its 35-year history (for example, JUST Capital, the National Peace Academy, and the Optimist Daily, among […]
Celebrating (?) 2021
Remembering an incredible year BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share This is one very difficult column to write. It is the end of the year, a time typically filled with Holiday cheer – whether Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, or just Santa Claus and family. We pause to celebrate […]
Perspectives: Parental Anxiety
Greed knows no boundaries BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share Almost every parent of a K-12 school age child is really concerned about the incessant school shootings that plague our nation. These have been escalating in violence and complexity over the 23 years since the Columbine […]
Perspectives: “TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT!”
Worker driven economic growth BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share Have you heard all the news stories lately about “the Great Resignation” (or as some podcasters are calling it, the “Take this job and shove it” moment)? Tune into CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC or […]
Perspectives: Inflation Worries, Wages and the Money Trail
Why panic is unnecessary BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share Inflation is on everyone’s mind these days. Currently running at 6.2 percent (4.6 percent if you strip out food and energy), inflation is at its highest rate in many decades—since 1990 to be precise. And, […]
Rinaldo S. Brutoco appears on “Talking Success with Aasmah Mir”
Tackling the climate crisis and changing the world Our Founder and President, Rinaldo S. Brutoco, recently sat down for a chat with Aasmah Mir on the podcast “Talking Success.” Aasmah talks to Rinaldo about the thread that links his varied career and how his passion for reversing the effects of climate change is being realised […]
Perspectives: Guns, Gosar, Violence and Economics
War only enriches gunsmiths BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse has galvanized the country, splitting already “warring factions,” into something far more dramatic. The travesty of that trial began with the systematic exclusion of Black jurors and was further amplified by a clearly […]
Perspectives: Secession Revisited
Peace is always cheaper than war BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share Robert Muller, the recently deceased Santa Barbara resident and globally known United Nations official who many of us admired, famously observed: “Use every letter you write, Every conversation you have, Every meeting you attend, To […]
The Giving List 2022
We made it! We are thrilled to announce our inclusion in The Giving List, Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara is home to a number of nonprofits. The Giving List team consulted with leaders across philanthropy, financial services, and philanthropic advising to determine which organizations should be highlighted – and we are delighted to have made the […]
Perspectives: “Conscious Uncoupling”
Loving separation vs. violent divorce BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share Gwyneth Paltrow famously described her attempts to end a long-term marriage without acrimony as a “conscious uncoupling”, which she explained is a way that a couple can consciously choose to disengage with each other and go their […]
Perspectives: Marjorie Taylor Greene–Leaving???
Irreconcilable differences? BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia is one of the wackier folks ever elected to the House of Representatives. Don’t take my word for it: Republican arch-conservative Congresswoman Liz Cheney has said that Greene’s thoughts and words […]
