Levi Lock's Social Entrepreneurship Assignments

Strengths:   Producing clean renewable energy. Dispatchable hydro-electric resource. (Able to be turned on and off as demand requires) Low political risk. Low energy cost. Weaknesses: Uncertainty when gaining permissions from government and Indigenous communities. High capital cost of hydro-electric projects. Current collective bargaining issues. Opportunities: Exporting excess renewable energy to the USA or other provinces. Increasing demand and availability for electric vehicles. Increasing technological development of solar and wind electric generators. Threats: Effects of climate change limiting natural resources. Effects of drought. Possibility of energy shortage if province quickly changes to use of electric vehicles. Sudden loss of infrastructure due to natural disasters.

  Gordon Ramsay is one of the most well-known Chefs in the world due to his well-known restaurants and recipes, and his animated personality displayed on his cooking shows. During his shows, Kitchen Nightmares and Hotel Hell, Ramsay attempts to bring back businesses that  are  struggling by improving the food they serve as well as the presentation. On Gordon Behind Bars ,  instead of helping businesses recover and give  them   a fresh start ,  he shifts his help to people who are struggling. In the show Ramsay goes inside a prison and helps to change the inmates ’  lives by teaching them to cook and helping them to earn money with the food the kitchen sells. This program also helps the inmates, when they get out of prison, to get a real job. One inmate, who was on the show, dropped out of school when he was 10 years old. He was in and out of jail many times for burglary, drug dealing, and stealing from heavy goods vehicles. He also had been using drugs himself since he was seven. Howev

    Progressive businesses do not perform business transactions and make decisions like ordinary businesses. In progressive business every function of the company is performed with social and political issues in mind with the outlook of making positive change in the world. Although progressive business does make positive changes, it cannot create substantial change without society and government also being involved. The movement of progressive business is not a new one, it existed even back in the 1920's. This way of business thinking challenges the capitalist classical creed by implementing new consideration for stakeholders of the business. Shareholder value maximization and sparking change is part of the main goal of a progressive business. For example, progressive business and entrepreneurs can help to fix market problems like housing, agriculture, energy production, and climate change just to name a few. However, as with all things, it is not flawless. Corporations and busines

For the case study I choose Manitoba Hydro, they are a Crown corporation monopoly that supplies electricity and natural gas to all of Manitoba.  For the template I made click the  link  to the Google slides and make a copy for yourself to edit.

Course Steps 1. First contact with Social Ecological Entrepreneurship Introduction to Basics, Goals and Examples 2. Laying the groundwork for a Social Ecological Business Identifying needs, areas of improvement, and planning 3. Starting the Entrepreneurship process Finances, Land, and Business Strategy 4. Starting the Business Raising funds, Hiring, Ownership

The first thing I thought would be a fun idea for the assignment would be designing a project for a space. I'm stuck. Designing things has always interested me, like building our rink or our deck. Being able to decide what could be the best option for a space is interesting. For our rink we had to decide, do we want to expand it closer to the trees? We didn't because the tree had berries on them which is a pain. Do we want boards all around or just make do with end boards? We decided to keep the end boards. These kind of decisions are small scale, but some thought was put into them. For a public space you have to think, what type of people hang out here? What is their age? What do they like to do? Are they sports fans? Food fans?