I am sharing as many early prototypes of business ideas centered around building sustainable consumer behavior that were dreamt up of during my MBA as Presidio/Pinchot/BGI in hopes that someone who is passionate about any of the ideas can bring a version of them to fruition. If you do get inspired by them, please let me know!
Focused Workspace (2019)
Using a shared workspace that is the opposite of collaboration but instead quiet and focus, I was aiming to nudge people towards choosing simplicity more in their lives by creating a space that they could actually experience. In addition, the business would implement as many sustainable materials and reusables concepts to model what people could do back at their home and workplaces.
- Intent: create a network of accessible, distraction-free workspaces which showcase essentialist work practices
- Impact: so folks might adopt an essentialist philosophy in life and thus accelerate positive change in the world
Decluttering Movers (2019)
Trying to declutter a household can be tough, and usually the best time to do it is when moving. So I thought up what that might look like and how beyond the process of moving and decluttering if habits about better purchasing could be built in. Being able to divert disposed items from the trash towards reuse and recycling would be automatic!
- Intent: teach households how to declutter their homes and remove barriers to disposing items
- Impact: so folks might adopt an essentialist philosophy in life and thus accelerate positive change in the world
Other Ideas To Be Added
- Decluttering Mobile App: teach decluttering through an app on your phone
- Decluttering Card Game (turned into Ruminate): teach decluttering through physical interaction with others
- Personal Finance Advising: drive financial independence and reduce dependence on traditional consumer economy as wealth source