May 19, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
Words and labels matter – let’s not put lipstick on a pig I love words. I love that they help us form relationships, expand perspectives, create art. My training with Buckminster Fuller ensured I did not take words lightly. Bucky went silent for 2 years,...
May 13, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Syntropic Enterprise
Lipstick on a toad – applying sustainability practices within the frame of our existing finance and business systems I am a positive person. I have my doubts about the apocalyptic stories…about how we are in such a stage of crisis as never before. Do I...
May 12, 2014 | Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Syntropic Enterprise
Syntropy, entropy and business models for regenerative design Our mother Sun radiates out energy…more energy than the world can ever use. This radiation of energy is entropic. In providing us with energy, the sun is very slowly breaking down. The Sun gives....
March 14, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Economies for justice
All in cost accounting -delusions of modern life Take a barrel of oil. Currently trading at about $51 US a barrel. (2014) But what a delusion we live in with that price. As Buckminster Fuller quoted in Critical Path, “Scientifically faithful, synergistically...
March 7, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Synaptic leaps, dissipative structures- what it takes to really lead Many years ago I had the privilege of spending 7 days on the Big Island of Hawaii with a group of about 100 people studying the work of Buckminster Fuller. The material we used was a video taken of...
December 16, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Syntropic Enterprise
Why we need to love tension in our business In Buckminster Fuller’s tensegrity model, there is this beautiful relationship between tension and compression. Bucky demonstrated that tensegrity exists in all of nature. So often we avoid either tension (blow apart...
