WPenner's Blog

As I get towards the end of my MBA, the focus of instruction is on innovation. My current class approaches innovation from the perspective of the corporation, that is, corporate entrepreneurship or intrapraneurship.

The prof has suggested that innovation and entrepreneurship, in this context, are...

The vermicompost industry (i.e. composting using worms) is not new, yet somehow still in its infancy. I think that is about to change in a very large and global way. The public understanding of what vermicomposting is and why its results are so amazing is growing yearly. The techniques and technolog...

I stumbled across three different piece about education recently that all kind of tie together. In the first, an award-winning schoolteacher pulls back the curtain on the education kids are really receiving. Given the site this appeared on (UnSchooling.com), I initially read this rather cynically,...

The Telegraph Herald, a newspaper, reports on a new program offered by the University of Illinois. Through the Extension Office, and in cooperation with the local 4-H club, they are providing free worm composting kits to youth for the asking. The kits contain everything needed to get started with v...