June 23, 2015 | Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
How to build a cathedral. A metaphor Part 1 We ‘modern’ humans are not very good at long-term anything. Show me anyone anywhere who thinks about the next 1000 years when they set out to make something now? The 7 generations of consideration is a principle...
June 22, 2015 | Current Affairs, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Distracted by purposefully built illusions The wonderful part of being an Aussie is that we do have a ‘downunder’ view of the world. We watch, from afar, the world go mad. That is not to say we ourselves are not also caught in the mad contagion. After all...
June 18, 2015 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business
Building a sterilised world Hand sanitisers Extreme overuse of antibiotics Removing play equipment from school playgrounds Overuse of vaccinations Never allowing children to be unsupervised Walking or biking to school is too dangerous Playing outdoors in the rain or...
June 11, 2015 | Economies for justice, Personal Development
Debt is a great way to keep people docile “Debt is a great way to keep people docile”, Dr Jason Hickel In this blistering and lucid article on the delusions of microfinance, Dr Hickel exposes a model that the West have looked on so favourably these last...
May 25, 2015 | Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
We can – change the world today We can; Make every building an energy producer Build zero-waste cities Grow healthy, nutritious food locally Reduce the cost of living via local energy and local food Make everything cradle to cradle – zero waste Eliminate...
April 23, 2015 | Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
Human exploitation in the world of business – our role in being taken advantage of My train today was late. As I was waiting, I overheard a rail employee on the phone complaining about this affecting his total work hours and that he does not get paid overtime....
