February 13, 2017 | Economies for justice, Education for integrity, Future of Business, Governance for wisdom, Syntropic Enterprise
Moving from an economy of extraction to extinction – to omni-generative Our current economic model is designed to extract to extinction. Extract impounded solar energy (fossil fuels) from Earth, some billions of years in the making, and costing millions of...
October 25, 2016 | Economies for justice, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
On responsibility – what did I do when I knew? What did I do when I knew? What did I do when I knew that allowing business to put money into politics corrupts? Completely. That extracting a single other ounce of fossil fuels from Earth means our...
April 19, 2016 | Economies for justice, Personal Development, Syntropic Enterprise
What is Money and why does Money consume so much of human existence? Money is a word that comes laden with human expectations, projections, hopes, dreams, pain, suffering, frustration, disappointment, lust, desire, greed, control, power, manipulation, wistfulness,...
January 27, 2016 | Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
What is ‘cheap’ labour? We humans are being called to account. Our system of capitalism – a system that has been built, that could only have been built, entirely on the ability to NOT count for the many externalities, such as the cost of Earth to...
July 13, 2015 | Economies for justice, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Thinking of finance as a commons Our monetary system is not controlled by government as a representation of its citizens, but by private institutions, hell bent on getting the greatest return on investment for the shareholders. Banks in Australia happily charge plus...
June 25, 2015 | Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
Social capital, networks and reputation Unless you are deploying a tool such as Synergistic Accounting, it is unlikely that you will take into account the all-in-value of someone’s social capital. Our connectivity to people within networks, and our reputation...