The Inertia Library Project is an attempt to catalog all of the amazing ideas out there in to a user friendly, easily searchable, library of ideas. It is focused specifically on natural capitalism, 3E, triple bottom line, conservation economy, design-based works and documents.

This project started because I graduated from college. That’s the short answer to a longer story, I suppose. I graduated from college and found all the momentum I had built up in school as far as what I wanted to do and where I wanted to go all come to a screaming halt. I then found myself spending a long time reading about amazing design-based solutions to social, economic, and environmental problems. I spent some time learning about the idea of being a social entrepreneur and decided that this sounded like a pretty good idea.

The long answer to a short story is that I spent a lot of time wandering aimlessly through the blog rolls, posts, and world of social entrepreneurship, design-based problem solving, and sustainable solutions. I realized that if I, a somewhat web savvy person, with tons of resources and time was having difficulty wading through this thick soup, many other people probably have a tough time of it also.

Inspired by the work of the Internet Archive, my mother’s public library, Good Magazine, the many amazing ideas I’ve seen floating around lately, and so many others.

I hope this works out.