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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…

7 min readJan 17, 2022

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Amazon’s Underwhelming Circular Packaging Achievements

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Dean Simms-Elias

Cooperative Enterprises and their Civic Participation: A Historical Understanding

How worker cooperatives arose, subsided and now contain immense opportunity

16 min readNov 9, 2020

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Cooperative Enterprises and their Civic Participation: A Historical Understanding

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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…

6 min readAug 18, 2020

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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…

3 min readMar 7, 2017

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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…

5 min readFeb 28, 2017

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Dean Simms-Elias

3 Pathways to Purposeful Meditation

3 Pathways to Purposeful Meditation

5 min readFeb 28, 2017

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3 Pathways to Purposeful Meditation

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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…

2 min readJan 30, 2017

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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…

5 min readOct 7, 2016

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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…

6 min readMay 12, 2016

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A New American Renaissance

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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.

7 min readFeb 25, 2016

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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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