One of the few downsides of being a single girl in the city is when you need an extra pair of hands to help you put together that IKEA thingamajig or hang some blinds. Just the other day this author had to turn to Twitter with a desperate plea for help in hanging up a pot rack (a winged plastic wall anchor was involved, it wasn’t going to be easy). On that night, Twitter was sort of like our very own “The Secret,” and a friend ended up coming over to help (and voila: success!) But what if Twitter failed us? WHAT THEN? Enter: Rent-A-Gent.

34-year-old single man Ian Zelesko is offering up his services to the women of New York. He’ll paint your walls, help you move, install your air conditioner… and he’ll even accompany you to a couples get together if you don’t want to be The Single One (which sort of starts getting into Loverboy territory). You can check out his Tumblr for some documentation of is handy work, and this week we asked Zelesko some questions about his business, which, by the way, makes no money—he works only for Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. And even though his “business” revolves around single women, working up a sweat, and alcohol, he swears it never gets physical in that way… okay, maybe just that once.

Will you also do odd jobs for men if they contact you? I have turned down jobs for guys, it’s not the intent of the service. I’ve also had to turn down jobs for women who had husbands that rather buy a case of beer than deal with IKEA furniture. It’s not meant to be cheap labor.

Will you do a job for a girl with a boyfriend? Any boyfriend or husband worth his salt should be able to do this type of work, so I would probably turn it down if he was just lazy or couldn’t be bothered by physical labor. Now if the job required two sets of hands (a big move or an installment, etc) I would probably help out.

Is there any request you’ll have to turn down because of lack of knowledge/tools/etc? As you’ll see from the blog, I’ve done a flat screen mount on a wall so that’s fairly involved (that was a two man job so i brought a friend of mine). I generally won’t mess around with electricity jobs, I am not that experienced and I don’t want to short out an apartment building or anything. It’s mostly assembly, moving, drilling, hanging, painting, driving rented vans, etc. I am by no means a contractor or anything, I am just crafty enough for most jobs in NYC.

What prompted you to start this? This all started when I helped some friends out with some jobs and they would take me out for beer as thanks. During one beer session we realized there are most likely a lot of women in NYC that need something like this. The insight was genius, so we decided, let’s do it and see what happens. I work in advertising and love experimenting to see what takes off and what doesn’t. It kind of took off a bit when i launched it and made some rounds on Twitter and Tumblr, but it never really seeded it beyond that, it was all word of mouth. The main issue to overcome is how to get people to feel comfortable employing me given all the sketchiness on Craigslist (enter the blog with the photos and the testimonials). There’s a certain level of comfort and humor seeing all the jobs on the blog. I would say a majority of my jobs still come from some degree of friends-of-friends-of-friends.

You will eventually be flooded with requests, if you aren’t already, what then? How will you choose which jobs to do? Like i said, I have a full time job and seeing as i get paid in beer I am obviously not in this for monetary reasons. For me, this is more of a fun social experiment based off a great insight. But as you can see I’ve had a good amount of work since the summer. If it really got going I would need to figure out how to manage/decide on the jobs or bring in some trusted/skilled friends to help out.

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On a recent visit to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York, I broke away to visit Ecovative Design, a remarkable 40-employee firm creating packaging for Dell Computer, wine shippers and other clients by turning fungi and farm waste into a durable and biodegradable substitute for foam. The company was spawned through Inventor’s Studio, a course in which 20 seniors each year are challenged by engineering lecturer Burt Swersey to produce marketable innovations that are profitable, patentable and can improve the world.

Here’s a short video of my tour of the business, in Green Island, N.Y., led by Eben Bayer, who developed the company with fellow student Gavin McIntyre (read more about Ecovative’s history here).

Bayer not only explains what he calls “living nanotechnology” that turns fungi into factory workers, but also discusses what qualities should be nurtured in American education to foster creative problem finding and solving.

Bayer recently made his second trip to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, and I invited him to contribute a “Your Dot” essay on his views of the event, the limits of brainstorming and the path toward progress that fits on a finite planet. Part of what he says here and in the video tour offers a healthy challenge to the notion of the “networked path to breakthroughs” that I’ve focused on quite a bit.

You can read Bayer’s piece below, followed by a reaction to his company from Andrew Hargadon of the University of California, Davis, who studies the roots of innovation:

In unseasonably warm Green Island, N.Y., my little company is in the process of expanding into a tall, beige, warehouse in the industrial park on the edge of town. Another 25,000 square feet devoted to the growing packaging, insulation, and other products, from mushrooms. Ecovative’s “campus” now bridges a parking lot, shared with industrial pipe companies, janitorial services, and a wind turbine manufacturer.

I’m home from a January filled with travel, including a last week spent in Davos, a stark contrast to my current local. This was my second time attending the World Economic Forum and, with another go around, I felt that I was beginning to get some perspective on the event.

Ostensibly I was there as a “CEO” representing my company, Ecovative. But as a recent graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where I essentially studied innovation & creativity (along with a delightfully oversized serving of hard sciences) I found myself observing and interacting through another lens. Specifically: How does the Davos approach compare to the state of the art in these fields?

The answer? It depends on what school of thought you fall into.

We are brought up in a culture that embraces the “brainstorm” session. Get your best and brightest together, order pizza, and kick around idea’s until something clicks and zynga! You just invented the next Facebook!

But I have learned — first in courses on innovation and creativity at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and later through my own experience running a living materials company — that group brainstorming leads to mediocrity. Inevitably within a group a few strong perspectives emerge; even the most dynamic teams will work to rectify the dissonance between competing view points, borrowing a little here, a little there. What usually results is a grand compromise of vision, something from everyone, good at nothing.

In comparison, great technologies, companies, and products are often driven by the focused vision of just a few principles. Apple, Polaroid, and perhaps now Facebook are all examples of this approach. You may not like their visions, but they are clear and consistent and their companies follow them with dogged dedication.

At Davos I participated in a brainstorm on new energy technologies (during which I ended up getting in a fight with Lord Hastings, but we got over it, great guy). The question we were asked to consider: What major innovation will transform energy availability this century?

The recap: I proposed a growable solar cell, the person to my right proposed global transmission lines, the next a better form of power storage, then a mirror to focus solar energy on earth, and finally our last participant talked about the importance of social change. The result? My group proposed a better portable battery, which would enable transmission of power (presumably by people carrying the battery about) that accelerates the deployment of solar power through social sharing.

See the formula? Each individual concept could be expanded and “plussed” to excellence. Instead we compromised on an idea-chimera, which is currently shivering lonely in the cold Swiss mountains pondering its own existence and cursing its casual creators.

I did get a few delightful surprises though: Half way through one workshop we were asked to “switch” our perspective from resource scarcity to resource plenty (or vice versa, depending on where you placed yourself when starting the sessions). This type of exercise is brilliant, and crucial for creating insights, it forces the participants to re-evaluate their core assumptions, often these are hidden from us.

I felt this perspective switch was important during the scarcity session, because only a small group — about 15 percent of people in the session of 45 — believed resources were fundamentally constrained (e.g., earth is finite). The rest were situated on a spectrum ranging from resource scarcity is real enough to hurt the economy (but not that real) right up to we have infinite resources.

While I don’t think anyone changed views in that session, it did force contrasting participants to consider solving the problem using the other perspective. For me, this meant taking on the exciting viewpoint of limitless resources: we should double down on extraction technology, invest in new wells, fracking, and mining, with an end goal of bringing health, wealth, and conspicuous consumption to the planet.

Fortunately for my antipodes this meant trying on my radical views: we need to extract no more than the carrying capacity of the earth (its solar flux, plus material reserves), invest in efficiency (not more generation), value happiness enabled through personal connections and experiences, not purchases, and still hold a goal of bringing health and basic support to the entire planet.

The result is that everyone leaving the room had a bigger toolkit of ideas that they could use in their day to day ideas, that based on personal preconceptions, might never appear, but can still be applied, regardless of ideology (or if you prefer, cold hard facts), as tactics in our day to day lives.

So? How does Davos rank on fostering innovation and creativity?

Well, like much of the forum, mixed. There are brilliant approaches sprinkled through-out conventional sessions which lean, in fact lounge, in blandness. The best I experienced, of any conference, was actually introduced by Hilde Schwab, and featured a moderator who played jazz piano for the group in order to explain how creative flow interacts with learned knowledge. Spectacular.

Down the hall a parallel session explored quantitative easing in the Euro zone, I suspect they brainstormed that one last year. #OnlyinDavos.

When I sent the video to Andrew Hargadon, he sent this initial reaction, which I then forwarded to Bayer:

This is a very cool startup. And by the looks of it, they’re in their fifth year, which is a good sign. It’s a terrific concept, at least to me, who knows little about the science or product specs.

My biggest question for these kinds of startups: do they have actual orders from customers or are they living on research & development grants? I would be much re-assured if they have real and ongoing orders. I know first hand that students-cum-sustainability-entrepreneurs make great poster children but not necessarily long-run successes. And that’s even when the science works.

As for RPIs Inventor’s Studio — I love the bold challenge that they made to their students. This particular type of studio/class is diffusing rapidly across universities (or emerging simultaneously). The rise of the “geek gods” seems to be fueling America’s recent embrace of the entrepreneur as bringer of jobs and green salvation. I’m involved with a number of similar programs both here at Davis and at Stanford, Berkeley, Colorado State, and MIT. These are each great programs — as are many more I haven’t mentioned. And they are adding a missing and much needed dimension to engineering and science education — training engineers and scientists to identify their own problems, rather than take those as given. I would also say that while each program’s unique and different, they are likely all sufficient to get their students moving down the right road.

You can be sure I will be showing my students this video. As a note, here’s a one-minute video of a similar company — MicroMidas — that came out of Davis:

Here’s Bayer’s reply:

Good comments! I have met many teams that follow the model of business plans or grants without a real commercialization plan. Burt (from inventors studio) pressed this early on, and has always advocated speaking to the customer early and often, and asking for an order, even if you don’t have the product ready or right!

Good news for us is that this year more than half of our revenue will be from non-government customers. Almost all of these are reoccurring (though that’s sort of the nature of the custom packaging business).

I also met the MicroMidas team a few years ago. They had raised quite a bit of cash fast. I’d be happy to hear what they are up to now!

[3:40 p.m. | Updated Hargadon sent a fascinating followup about the two different types of networks needed for success in startups.]

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What surprises me here, is that most repliers focus on “a process is a tool”

I see software just as one of many aspects needed to manage your organization by process.

And sure all this software can be send to the cloud. If that is cheaper, easier to maintain, while not disrupting the execution of processes, fine. But I hope companies see processes as something more than a piece of software.

And besides that. You might not believe it, in this world there are a lot of processes that are not of such an administrative kind that supporting software is the most important aspect.

For example healthcare. Will you help me to carry the operation room to the cloud?

Energy sector. Isn’t the cloud a little to high to put all our cables in.

My friend is a painter, At this moment he is uploading my front door into photoshop (in the cloud of course)

Sounds a little cynical. And it is. Why start thinking about moving all your software to the cloud when you don’t know it will benefit the execution of your process.

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Collecting unemployment-insurance benefits?

All that you received in 2011 is taxed as income. Unless you requested that federal taxes be withheld, you could be in for a big surprise when you calculate taxes owed.

If it’s any consolation, you may find yourself in a lower tax bracket because of reduced income, even counting the unemployment benefits. And you might also be eligible for tax breaks that you didn’t qualify for before.

“If you have major household changes, say you lost your job in 2011, we encourage people to take a close look at things like the earned income credit,” Internal Revenue Service spokesman Terry Lemons said.

He said people should go ahead and file their taxes even if they don’t have the money to pay any taxes that are due. “There are more options there than many people realize,” he said, including installment agreements.

The aftermath of the Great Recession, which gripped the nation from 2007 to 2009, is still being felt across America. Employers still worried about the state of the economy are hesitant to bring on new workers. And many of the more than 13 million unemployed people have stopped looking for jobs.

For those who spent part or all of 2011 searching for work, there are tax breaks.

“All of those job search expenses are deductible — the stationery, the long-distance phone calls, the hotels, anything you can relate to the job search,” said Jeff Schnepper, author of “How to Pay Zero Taxes.”

To qualify for this deduction, you have to be looking for a job in the same field or profession as your previous one. Expenses incurred trying to get your first job are not deductible. “Until you start working, you don’t have a profession,” Schnepper said.

You also have to itemize. And the cost of preparing your résumé, working with job-search services, mileage and other job search expenses has to exceed 2 percent of your adjusted gross income if you are to benefit, according to Greg Rosica, tax partner with Ernst & Young.

Make sure you save your receipts. “You have to be able to substantiate,” he said.

Those out of work may find the jobs have dried up in their cities or towns. “Many people are picking up and moving to where the jobs are,” said Bob Meighan, a vice president at TurboTax.

If you land a job across town or across the country, you might be eligible to take a deduction for moving expenses. “It’s an above-the-line deduction, dollar for dollar a reduction in your income,” Schnepper said. In this case, unlike job-search expenses, you don’t have to itemize to take advantage of the deduction.

To qualify, there’s a distance test that has to be met: Your new job has to be at least 50 miles farther from your old house than your former job was.

Also unlike the job-search deduction, you can deduct moving expenses even if this is your first job, provided your workplace is at least 50 miles from your former home. Same if you’re returning to work after being unemployed, the IRS says.

And there’s a requirement that you work at least 39 weeks in the new location over the first 12 months in the new area. You can take the deduction even if you started your job late in the year and won’t meet the time test in 2011. But if you fail to meet it in 2012, you’ll either have to file an amended return or report the deduction as income when you do your 2012 taxes.

The IRS says expenses that are “reasonable for the circumstances of your move.” That includes the cost of moving yourself and members of your household, as well as your household goods and personal effects. Shipping a car or the family pet is covered.

If you drove to your new home during the first half of 2011, the mileage rate is 19 cents per mile. The rate for July through December is 23.5 cents a mile. Or, the IRS gives you the option of deducting the actual cost of gas and oil for the car. But if the car broke down on the move, you cannot deduct the cost of the repair.

The cost of lodging on the way to your new home is deductible, but not the meals you eat on the road.

If you decide to commute to the new job instead of relocating, those commuting expenses are not deductible.

To claim the moving-expense deduction, file Form 3903 with your tax. IRS publication 521 provides more information.

If you went back to school to train for a new job, you may qualify for the American Opportunity Credit, which is partially refundable, or another education tax break.

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Patrons of Sauce restaurants probably won’t notice anydifference in the look or feel of their takeout containers, butpicking up a food order now is better for the environment.

Sauce, part of the Fox Restaurant Concepts chain, has introducedits first “green” packaging. Takeout cups, boxes, straws, napkins,bags and plasticware are all recyclable, made from recycledmaterials that biodegrade more quickly.

Sauce, which has three Tucson locations, and another Fox conceptrestaurant, True Food Kitchen, with locations in the Phoenix areaand California, are the first in the 31-restaurant company to gogreen.

“The first phase was to come up with items we are usingcurrently and replace what we’re already using” with products madefrom recycled materials, said Mike Geavaras, vice president ofoperations for Sauce.

Eventually all of the Fox restaurants will use these types ofproducts.

The second phase will involve working with suppliers to developprograms that encourage recycling and sustainability.

“It’s a little bit more expensive and I think that’s where a lotof times recycling campaigns run into a problem,” Geavaras said.”There is a cost to being thoughtful, but it’s the right direction.We all agree this is something we need to do. This is a good costof doing business.”

He said the company won’t pass the extra cost on tocustomers.

It’s not just Fox Restaurant Concepts that is switching to greenpackaging. Sustainability and reducing environmental impact are keyareas of focus for the Washington, D.C.-based National RestaurantAssociation.

A 2011 Restaurant Association survey found nearly three out offour restaurant owners purchase products made from recycledmaterials. Restaurant operators in the West and Northeast were morelikely than owners in other states to purchase such products.

Even though most of those restaurateurs say the cost of doingbusiness has not increased after switching to recycled products,only 34 percent are willing to pay more for those products.

The shift is something customers want. The survey found threeout of four adults buy recycled products when possible.

Arizona’s numbers differ from the national survey, but stillindicate an interest in renewable packaging. The 2011 surveyconducted by the Arizona Hospitality Research & Resource Centerat Northern Arizona University showed 39 percent of restaurantsused biodegradable, compostable containers for takeout food insteadof Styrofoam. Almost half the survey respondents said theirrestaurant has a policy of buying products containing recycledmaterials. More than 67 percent said the driving force behind theirsustainability initiatives was concern for the environment, while athird cited pressure from customers.

Geavaras doesn’t have to wait for customer feedback to gauge theimpact of the changes the chain is making.

After three months, “It is already a success, just being morethoughtful in choosing things that are better for the environment,”he said. “We need to continue to move in the right direction andthink of ways to keep this program moving.”

Fox Restaurant Concepts founder Sam Fox, above, began with asingle restaurant, Tucson’s Wildflower, in 1998. Today the companyboasts 31 restaurants across five states – Arizona, California,Colorado, Texas and Kansas – that employ nearly 2,000 people.

Contact reporter Kimberly Matas at orat 573-4191.

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