I agree 10 per cent – the principle of minimum consensus
Instead of arguing about irrelevant details on topics we agree upon, isn't it logical to stop seeking total agreement and aim for minimum consensus?
Sustainability Blog
Sustainability and Financial Outperformance
There is plenty of evidence out there for sustainability and financial out performance, we must use such evidence to take us towards a brighter future.
Sustainability Context
For sustainability to really mean something, sustainability context is everything. How can companies start to place their activities within the big picture?
All capitals are unequal, but some are more unequal than others
Multiple capitals seek to expand the notion of value beyond money, cost and price. How useful might they be?
Sustainability Reporting – the State of the Art
A review of global sustainability reporting trends based upon entries to the CRRA15 Sustainability Reporting Awards
Terrafiniti on Sustainable Brands
28th November 2014 Geoengineering: Are you feeling lucky? I’ve got a bad feeling about this… There has been increasing discussion of late, in the context of the IPCC’s latest reporton the dangers of climate change, about geoengineering — deliberate intervention in the functioning of planetary systems intended to arrest trends we don’t like or encourage …
Geoengineering – are you feeling lucky?
Geoengineering is sometimes discussed as a viable option to tackle climate change. Is it wise to rely upon hope and chance for our planetary future?
Terrafiniti on Huffington Post
19th November 2014 Our Days are Worth Years Is time running out for a sustainable world? Every day we are assailed with bad news about the environmental and social challenges coming our way. By 2050 we are told, we will have many millions (even billions) of hungry mouths to feed and less food, water or …
Sustainable Energy – the many dimensions of energy quality
Efficiency of use is a key aspect of sustainable energy, but quality may be more fundamental, how might we define it?
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?
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.