The Rights of Future Trade
The right to trade now is actively protected. With predicted social and environmental disruption, should we also develop the Rights of Future Trade?
Provocations, Thoughts and Big Ideas
Sustainable Futures and the Status Quo Bias
Humans unconsciously tend to assume that the status quo is somehow right and natural. How might this affect our ability to build a sustainable future?
Sensational! Against the tide of shallow value (Part 2)
From shallow value to real value - markets need to be capable of valuing a common future as more valuable than a private present.
Sensational! Against the tide of shallow value (Part 1)
What hope for sustainability when short term, shallow value and sensation is prioritised over the long term productive capacity of the planet and humanity?
Which straw broke the camel’s back; how useful are planetary boundaries?
The concept of planetary boundaries is a powerful and seductive one, but also one that has limited utility for driving a sustainable world.
How much is your Mother (Earth) worth?
Like pricing the Earth, getting the right price for your Mother might be harder than you think
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.
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...
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.
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....
Some are more equal than others
CEOs today are paid twice their weight in gold, are they worth it?