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Dean Simms-Elias

Dean Simms-Elias

Amazon’s Underwhelming Circular Packaging Achievements

(This essay is a mock letter from a major investor to the leaders of Amazon. It was a graduate school assignment in my sustainability…

Jan 17, 2022

Amazon’s Underwhelming Circular Packaging Achievements

Jan 17, 2022

Dean Simms-Elias

Cooperative Enterprises and their Civic Participation: A Historical Understanding

How worker cooperatives arose, subsided and now contain immense opportunity

Nov 9, 2020

Cooperative Enterprises and their Civic Participation: A Historical Understanding

Nov 9, 2020

Dean Simms-Elias

Framing a Common Vision

The converging crises of our time require sustained grassroots engagement to energize the transition of our institutional structures…

Aug 18, 2020

Aug 18, 2020

Dean Simms-Elias

Innovations that Repurpose Plastic and Glass Waste

People are realizing that filling a landfill with plastic, metal and glass waste indefinitely is unsustainable. In the past decade or two…

Mar 7, 2017

Mar 7, 2017

Dean Simms-Elias

After 7 Years Republicans Still Don’t Know How to Reform Healthcare — And Their Ideas Suck

Over the past decade the Tea Party overwhelming of the GOP has made Republicans the party of No. They rarely propose significant…

Feb 28, 2017

Feb 28, 2017

Dean Simms-Elias

3 Pathways to Purposeful Meditation

3 Pathways to Purposeful Meditation

Feb 28, 2017

3 Pathways to Purposeful Meditation

Feb 28, 2017

Dean Simms-Elias

Happily Uninformed — #BoycottStarbucks

The #boycottstarbucks hashtag started to trend Monday afternoon 1/30/17 in response to Starbucks announcing its initiative to hire 10,000…

Jan 30, 2017

Jan 30, 2017

Dean Simms-Elias

Repurposing Olympic Venues

The outlook going into the Rio Olympics this year was not great. With toxic waters to compete in, zika mosquitoes, construction cost…

Oct 7, 2016

Oct 7, 2016

Dean Simms-Elias

A New American Renaissance

While watching a recent interview with Vice President Joe Biden a particular phrase caught my attention and ignited my imagination. Vice…

May 12, 2016

A New American Renaissance

May 12, 2016

Dean Simms-Elias

Trump isn’t the Scariest Part. It’s His Suporters.

Trump is Scary, But its His Supporters Lack of Respect for the Constitution That is Truly Troublesome.

Feb 25, 2016

Feb 25, 2016

Dean Simms-Elias

Dean Simms-Elias

Sharing experiences and theories while I Iearn to co-create a regenerative future. Studying urban planning and sustainability. Working in building operations.

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