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 8, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Poetry from the Future Poetry evokes contemplation, beauty, love, in a few words expressing the human condition and its vast symphony of emotions. To imagine great poetry from the future is to imagine a future where humans express love, beauty, wisdom…where life is....
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....
June 3, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Good intentions misaligned When we are working on big issues like ending poverty – any big systemic issue – we need to start with the biggest view possible, ideally, with the whole. In the interim, we may need to provide symptom care in the field. Food,...
