Chris Chopik Quality of Life Vision Blog

Amy Cuddy - body language and your life

Chris Chopik — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:57:06 +0000

The ecopreneurship program that I developed for Seneca's Green Business Management pogram focusses on two key aspects of business, knowing your strengths & capitalizing on them, and failing & innovating on paper. Together these processes are central to successful ecopeneurship.

This short TED talk offers a crystal clear and usable perspective about building confidence in your physiology and psychology. When selling ideas you have one chance to nail your first impression.

Wade Davis - Endangered Cultures

Chris Chopik — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 07:11:46 +0000

What makes a perspective of what life is all about?

Why does the Younger Brother want to destroy the world?

Jeremy Rifkin - 5 Pillars

Chris Chopik — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 20:58:38 +0000

Charles Limb: Creative Wave Lengths

Chris Chopik — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:18:58 +0000

a worthwhile investment of your time

Where is the Surprise in the Death of the Ocean?

Chris Chopik — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:16:20 +0000

I regularly read Dr. Seuse's the Lorax to my children at bedtime. The Onceler and the Lorax are at odds while water becomes fishless, the trees are harvested to the last timber, and the air is transformed into Smogular Smog. Yet as I speak with everyday people I do not excperience dispair, panic, sadness. All of these reactions are appropriate while we observe the death of the Ocean. The Seusian foreshadowing paints a picture worthy of the deepest kind of dispair.

I am left wondering if the leaders of the world are blind, corporations mindless, and individuals apathetic and selfish.

This talk offers some simple perspectives that while dire accurate many be conservitive in the urgency of the problem.

CleanTech and Smart Grids are compelling solutions and the "blue heart" of the planet dying is a dire and urgent call to action.

Inspired Thinking and Creative Expression are Powerful

Chris Chopik — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:26:05 +0000

Some of my earliest understandings of the influences of corporations on governments and in turn on the actions of consumers comes from author David Korten. This call to action, while tactically irrelevant to Canada uses expressive mechanisms to explan the problem that we face as Corporations influence Governments and Policies. This video is up there with Annie Leonard's the Story of Stuff in offering a picture into how the system can undermine the public interest globally.

Chamber.350.org from Hans Hansen on Vimeo.

How YouTube thinks about Copyright

Chris Chopik — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:23:05 +0000

Margaret Gould Stewart discusses the opportuinties for commercialization from unpland content syndication. For a great example of a viral video that was passed from my friend Frank over the holidays in 2010 search "Macabeats" at www.YouTube.com.

Trend Hunter, Innovation and Crowd Sourcing

Chris Chopik — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:27:53 +0000

Jeremy Gutsche offers a great narrative about failure and emotional connections in the world of business innovation.

Evolution Green Launch Discussion

Chris Chopik — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 04:55:23 +0000

At the launch of www.EvlolutionGreen.com collaboration, Chris discusses prosperity and quality of life with fellow leaders and influencers in Toronto.

The Economics of Happiness Mark Anielski

Chris Chopik — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:10:46 +0000

Mark Anielski, author of The Eonomics of Happiness, shares his perspective about needing to encourage people to pursue what makes them happy. For me this ties to the concept of Gross National Happiness - a concept I first researched in 1999, and which inspired many of my present outlooks and actions. What is particular compelling about Mark's perspectives are the practical everyday common sense of living with purpose, rather than working and consuming to buy things we don't need to make impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.