September 28, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Make stuff that is good for people and the planet to have Oh this sounds so simple, so obvious. Yet we have tons and tons of landfill every year evidencing the rarity of this statement. Not just stuff that is good for people and planet to have, but stuff built to...
September 30, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Syntropic Enterprise
The principle of exchange – reciprocity To receive gifts, as we all do…the gift of life, the gift of sunlight, the gift from earth that feeds, the gift of beauty… Comes with responsibility. If we are raised to believe that gifts of life and from mother Earth are...
July 30, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Questions for potential business creators Bucky Fuller called it Obnoxico. The amount of stuff and services we produce that actually add zero or very little value to humanity. Cheap nasty plastic stuff. Things designed to become obsolete within a year or two....
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...