Entropic Overhead
Entropy applies without exception to all activities and processes. Is it the meta metric to measure and drive a circular economy?
Provocations, Thoughts and Big Ideas
Entropic Utility – measuring the circular economy
Entropy applies without exception to all activities and processes. Is it the meta metric to measure and drive a circular economy?
Suicide By Planet
Suicide by planet...will our current model of capitalism make us the first species to willfully self destruct?
9 billion reasons for hope…or fear
We will have more than 9 billion people on the planet by 2050 - lets tidy the house for the vistors we have coming.
The limits to existence – aligning economics and thermodynamics
The limits to growth are framed by thermodynamics, not sentiment and custom. We must evolve our systems of value to work within and alongside this reality.
A manifesto for Rejuvenative Technology
We need to drive a flowering of rejuvenative technology - sustainable in its impact and biotic in its nature - increasing the sum total of life on Earth.
Terra Sapiens
From Homo sapiens to Terra sapiens - becoming a true stewards of our planet just might be the defining challenge of our evolutionary history.
The Rights of Future Trade
The right to trade now is actively protected. With predicted social and environmental disruption, should we also develop the Rights of Future Trade?
Sustainable Futures and the Status Quo Bias
Humans unconsciously tend to assume that the status quo is somehow right and natural. How might this affect our ability to build a sustainable future?
Sensational! Against the tide of shallow value (Part 2)
From shallow value to real value - markets need to be capable of valuing a common future as more valuable than a private present.
Sensational! Against the tide of shallow value (Part 1)
What hope for sustainability when short term, shallow value and sensation is prioritised over the long term productive capacity of the planet and humanity?
Which straw broke the camel’s back; how useful are planetary boundaries?
The concept of planetary boundaries is a powerful and seductive one, but also one that has limited utility for driving a sustainable world.