A sustainable world before the end of our world?
Optimism for a sustainable future might be pointless in cosmic terms but then so is pretty much anything when viewed in this light.
Terrafiniti on Guardian Sustainable Business (GSB)
14th September 2012 A sustainable world before the end of the world? Driving sustainability for organisations and the wider world can often feel like pushing water uphill; maintaining optimism when times are tough is a skill that many of us have well honed. In this piece on GSB Joss argues that, whilst things may often …
Valuing Abundance
Scarcity may be a simple and effective way of generating price but it is fatally flawed as an approach to delivering a sustainable future...
Terrafiniti on Guardian Sustainable Business (GSB)
8th August 2012 Who ate all the pies? Why we need to Value Abundance rather than Scarcity As our consumption of vital resources gets ever faster we become necessarily more and more fixated on scarcity and the perverse relationship between scarcity and value grows ever stronger. Yet scarcity is pretty useless if you have big …
A desirable property…how might we value our home planet?
A gentle meander around some of the issues and ideas generated by our modest proposal to explore an Initial Public Offering (IPO) for the Earth, an EPO.
Stakeholder engagement – building resilience
Companies can use stakeholder engagement to gain strategic insight, spot risks and identify issues that might just come back to bite them.
Towards 9 Billion: Infinite economy on a finite planet – Part 2
Delivering sustainable capitalism - how the price mechanism must evolve.
Towards 9 Billion: Infinite economy on a finite planet – Part 1
Can capitalism be re-engineered to produce innately sustainable outcomes? We are optimistic that it can....
Terrafiniti in the Financial Times
19th June 2012 Valuing Natural Capital – A Living Wage for Mother Nature A good primer on valuing nature, Joss Tantram contributed to this article by Jane Bird. She introduces the concept of natural capital through the example of pollination services provided by honey bees – one of many ‘free services’ provided by nature. Some …
A true reflection…getting satisfaction from independent Assurance
If your organisation either already reports or intends to produce a sustainability report, you need to think about independent assurance.
Towards 9 Billion – a vision for a truly sustainable economy
Speaking at the Long Finance Initiative Spring Conference, “Into the Folly of Value”, Joss Tantram talked about radical new thinking on sustainability in economics. Introducing Terrafiniti’s Towards 9 Billion approach, he talked about how altering the way we derive price would produce more sustainable outcomes by focusing on the three key value concepts of abundance, …
Sustainability reporting – clear, meaningful & resonant?
CSR and sustainability reporting is growing fast. This post provides guidance for companies to report their performance creatively and meaningfully.