June 16, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business
Nature doesn’t set out to be sustainable It sets out to be regenerative. To add more than it takes across the domains of existence. If we aim to be regenerative in all things, as an act, through design, by intention, then we will certainly get sustainability. It is...
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...
June 12, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
All in accounting A report by Trucost, commissioned by the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, found that if environmental costs are counted, almost no industry is profitable. Perhaps we might pause and think about that. If we take the all-in-accounting cost for...
June 11, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Design for good As I gaze across the Pacific, its waters lake like on this morning, the sun not yet cresting the horizon, I think about people. Almost everyone I meet wants to do good. Good work, good art, good citizenship, good parenting, good relationships. The...
June 9, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Ephemeralisation Doing more with less, ultimately everything with nothing. This is one of Bucky Fuller’s Generalised Principles, true in all cases in our physical universe. (Perhaps not at the quantum level, or outside the earth’s atmosphere.) It is the...
June 7, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The life of a visionary pioneer Take a big vision, one almost no one else can see. They will call you stupid. Or their eyes will glaze over when you speak of it. Study the field. See the future. Feel its edges. You can taste it touch it, know it. Come back to here....
