April 7, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
The value of a tree A beautiful tree, its roots running deep and wide, making a thousand connections to earth, other roots, and all the creatures that have made their homes in its infrastructure. The trunk, a living record of time and wisdom. The bark often supporting...
January 8, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Making money instead of making things An abstraction reproducing itself. This is the absurdity of money making money from money without any correlation to real value. The idea of money was to facilitate ease of exchange of value. Not to be valued in its own right....
December 30, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Social Justice and corporate power are not compatible How we wish it were not so. How we try so hard to defend the indefensible. How much money, time and effort do we spend to try to implement social justice within the system of corporate power. To step back and...
December 23, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business
We are the economy Economy means to care for the home. Once we realise that this economy thing is not separate from us – it is not some strange beast outside of us that seems to work like a puppet on strings, strings pulled by nefarious actors – we can...
December 17, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Good business and capitalism Good business offers needed and wanted products and services without exploiting labour, our earth, or the future. Good business, what we call Syntropic business, leaves everything better. Capitalism is a system designed to extract maximum...
November 15, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business
Abstraction separates us from Source Could you look in the eyes of the cow before you kill it to eat it? If we look into the eyes of the people arriving on boats as climate and war refugees, would our response to them be different? If we sat down and listened to their...
