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Cory Ames

👋 Hi, I’m Cory.

I'm a writer, podcaster, and I run a media company, Grow Ensemble.

Through my work, I explore the who, what, why, & how of building a better world.

I believe by better understanding the world we live in, the better we are suited to protect it.

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Recent Posts

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Ensemble Homestead Site Update - Q1 2023

For one reason or another, I’ve become very interested in permaculture. For those who don’t know (like me, a short time ago), permaculture, defined by co-founder of the practice, Bill Mollison, is “a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than

Ensemble Homestead Site Update - Q1 2023
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To Change Business, Reject It

News broke last week that Yvon Chouinard, the Founder of Patagonia, gave his company away for the sake of “fighting the environmental crisis and defending nature.” [1] Yvon has repeatedly defied the expectations of business. He built Patagonia into a leading example for almost everything in the realm of what

To Change Business, Reject It
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What’s Possible

Five of the six biggest waves ever surfed were surfed at Nazaré. Nazaré is a small Portuguese coastal town where, first in 2011, an American surfer named Garrett McNamara, rode a 78-foot wave. This set a new world record and changed the big wave surf world forever. Since McNamara’s

What’s Possible