Discounting the discount rate…how can we value a sustainable future?
The discount rate makes a lot of sense but it also acts to restrict adequate investment in sustainable change. How might we compound future value?
Provocations, Thoughts and Big Ideas
Traffic Jams – the manifest will of the people?
The mass effect of individual actions can produce an outcome at odds with the original intent of those decisions. Is this the manifest will of the people?
Out with the old? 350 or 355 ppm?
Out with the old? The “new” seldom really is new, built as it so often is upon the ramshackle foundations of the old – not upon fresh footings of its own.
Its not you, its we: why values alone aren’t enough for a sustainable world
Allowing the values we hold to be expressed through action should not be a matter of guilt. Sustainability will come when we turn the tide.
Capitalism – what is the point?
Capitalism has no stated end-goal, no clear outcome or purpose, yet it dominates our planet. We need a little more from our operating system.
Towards Rejuvenative Enterprise, Beyond Sustainability
The future evolution of business; Rejuvenative Enterprises will thrive upon the changes our planet faces, for the good of all.
Sustainability: 21st Century Natural Philosophy
Sustainability echoes the European Enlightenment period. Today, 21st century Natural Philosophers hold their thinking up against today's orthodoxies.
Entropic Valuation
Entropic Valuation is a “solar unit in – utilisable energy unit out” approach. It can compare how efficiently sunlight transforms to usable energy.
SWOT on Earth?
What's the state of the planet in 2014? Here's our SWOT on Earth for the new year
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
The energetics of life show us the way to a seismic change in the capacity and sustainability of our species.
Valuing Natural Capital
Using money to put things on a level playing field makes sense, but only if the things we are comparing are actually comparable - natural capital is not.
Towards 9 Billion in Bubbles
We decided to see how all our Towards 9 Billion posts over the last 18 months looked through a data visualisation. Here are the words we used in bubbles.