May 10, 2024 - Good Business Lilly Tench and Great Reset Jason Jones

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Lilly Tench – Director of the Spark Innovation Center at the University of Tennessee Research Park and Author of Good Business: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Creating a Better World

My book talks about the intersection of business and social
and environmental impact. So, making societal change using
business rather than using philanthropy or government.

Lilly Tench is author about the many ways that businesses can do good and turn a profit, offering tips and advice on opportunities to integrate social and environmental impact into a business model, how to design and produce a sustainable product, the current industries ripe for social innovation and more. Lilly believes in using innovation and entrepreneurship to address the world’s most pressing problems. Over the past decade she has worked with hundreds of social entrepreneurs in industries from energy to agriculture and gained crucial insight into the opportunities and complexities of mixing mission and money. Early in her career, Lilly worked alongside No Impact Man to design sustainability education and engagement programs around the world and also helped manufacturers to improve their environmental impact through an organization called ITAC. She later joined the NewLab team, and helped to start an innovation center for entrepreneurs in an abandoned ship building facility that is now home to over 800 entrepreneurs. Lilly went on to support cleantech researchers at Columbia University Technology Ventures, agtech innovators at the non-profit AgLaunch, and currently works as Director of the Spark Innovation Center at the University of Tennessee Research Park.
Jason Jones – Award Winning Film Producer, Activist and Author of The Great Campaign Against the Great Reset – Great EV Car Facts

The sorrowful truth is that most emissions today don’t come from the
exhaust. They come from the tires that are toxic, cancer causing. The
tires on electric vehicles are 33% larger and that’s because of the
massive heavy battery. Electric vehicles actually emit more when
you count tire particulates.

Jason Jones is a film producer, author, activist, popular podcast host, and human rights worker. He is president of the Human-Rights Education and Relief Organization (H.E.R.O.) known for its two main programs The Vulnerable People Project and Movie to Movement. In 2006, Jones was an Executive Producer of “Bella,” which won several film industry awards, most notably the People’s Choice Award at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2009 Jason was an associate producer of “The Stoning of Soraya M”, winner of the NAACP Image Award and the Los Angeles Film Festival. In 2009 Jones produced the award-winning pro-life short film Crescendo with Eduardo Verastegui and Pattie Mallete (the mother of Justin Bieber). Crescendo raised over 6 million dollars in North America to support pregnancy centers and women’s shelters. Jason launched the Vulnerable People Project’s Hope for Afghanistan program after receiving a request to rescue a friend’s mother trapped in Afghanistan during the US Military withdrawal. VPP’s Hope for Afghanistan has since grown immensely in the last two years. Since the disastrous US withdrawal VPP has evacuated thousands of religious minorities and former Afghan allies, provided for safe houses in neighboring countries, and worked to resettle vulnerable Afghans. VPP has delivered over 3 million meals to families in need across Afghanistan; opened a women’s health clinic; drilled wells that provide potable water to several villages; and provided security for schools so children can study and learn safely. At the heart of everything Jason does is a mission to stand between the violent and the vulnerable: from the child in the womb to Christians in Nigeria, to civilians in Ukraine to our former allies in Afghanistan. His tireless work in the pro-life movement was just recognized in a featured chapter in Legacy of Life, a book honoring fifty of the greatest pro-life leaders of the last fifty years. Jason Jones is a senior contributor to The Stream. The host of the Jason Jones Show. He is also the author of two books, The Race to Save Our Century and his most recent, The World is on Fire, released in October 2017. His latest film, Divided Hearts of America, is now available on Amazon Prime. Jason has just returned from Ukraine where he was the featured speaker at the Life, Dignity, and Victory Summit in Kyiv, Ukraine.