June 13, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Our current models say we are winning but we are losing We are measuring and celebrating the wrong things. GDP measures nothing more than the speed with which stuff and money pass through the economy, all the while excluding millions of hours of unpaid labour, and...
May 23, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Fear sells. We need to ask better questions Australia just held an election. While more than 60% of our population believes the government should do more to act on climate change, the party filled with climate change deniers and a very insignificant policy on climate,...
May 21, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Economies for justice
Yin and Yang of currency Buckminster Fuller would say that unity is plural, at minimum two. To an up, a down, an in, an out, a good, a bad. Connected, like the two sides of one coin. Our current sovereign currency is a Yang-based currency, designed through a central...
May 1, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice
On Surplus ..when we have extra, more than enough. When we have more than enough of something, be that time, energy, money, love, things, knowledge… Perhaps we might make our surplus useful to those who may not have enough. Stagnation and idle accumulation do not...
April 1, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Personal Development
Investment From Latin – to give one’s capital a new form. We are all investors. The question is in what? Our capital, that which is first in importance to us, will be directed to something. This might include accumulation of knowledge, things, health,...
March 6, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice
Perspective It is easy to talk about billions and trillions as if they are stones on a beach. Like children without the developmental experience to know the difference between a day and a year, the majority of humans, myself included, have little capacity to...
