BizInVermont is at heart a home for Social Entrepreneurs - individuals and groups dedicated to changing the world through the agency of organized enterprise. Vermont, as a state, does this more and better than almost anywhere on earth today, possessing a higher concentration of social entrepreneurs and mission-centered businesses than any other state in the nation.
This site and BizInVermont as an enterprise are dedicated to serving this social change community as a learning and action center, advocating for and acting on behalf of transformative social and economic change on an individual, family, business, community and state and national level – to nurture and preserve our earth and all the forms of life it sustains.
We live at a time when—more than ever before—all citizens of earth must act strongly to transform our entire way of life on this planet. Everything we know, all that we’re skilled at doing, must now actively serve this urgent collective request for personal, social, and economic change on a global scale. Every aspect of our personal and professional lives must now be transformed to operate in greater synergy with and support for the planet on which we live – with all its amazing living systems and astonishingly beautiful forms of life.
Does this threaten business as usual? Absolutely! If it’s to be effective at all, it must. Yet, at the same time, each and every one of us must also meet the needs we share for sustaining our everyday lives with a measure of abundance and plentitude.
As business people—for-profit or non-profit—we must learn and work together to transform our enterprises so that they operate in full alignment with these earth-centered and human-centered values, and still efficiently meet the needs of all forms of life living on this planet from today forward.