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Sustainability Context – the elephant is the room

For sustainability to really mean something, sustainability context is everything. How can companies start to place their activities within the big picture?

All capitals are unequal, but some are more unequal than others

Multiple capitals seek to expand the notion of value beyond money, cost and price. How useful might they be?

Sustainable energy – the many dimensions of energy quality

Efficiency of use is a key aspect of sustainable energy, but quality may be more fundamental, how might we define it?

Discounting the discount rate…how can we value a sustainable future?

The discount rate makes a lot of sense but it also acts to restrict adequate investment in sustainable change. How might we compound future value?

Its not you, its we: why values alone aren’t enough for a sustainable world

Allowing the values we hold to be expressed through action should not be a matter of guilt. Sustainability will come when we turn the tide.

What’s the point of capitalism?

Capitalism has no stated end-goal, no clear outcome or purpose, yet it dominates our planet. We need a little more from our operating system.

Beyond Sustainability, Towards Rejuvenative Enterprise

The future evolution of business; Rejuvenative Enterprises will thrive upon the changes our planet faces, for the good of all.

Entropic Valuation – energy economics as if thermodynamics mattered

Entropic Valuation is a “solar unit in – utilisable energy unit out” approach. It can compare how efficiently sunlight transforms to usable energy.

Vitality! How life makes the best of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics

The energetics of life show us the way to a seismic change in the capacity and sustainability of our species.

Valuing Natural Capital and Selling your Mother – the remix

Using money to put things on a level playing field makes sense, but only if the things we are comparing are actually comparable – natural capital is not.

Entropic Overhead – measuring the circular economy

Entropy applies without exception to all activities and processes. Is it the meta metric to measure and drive a circular economy?

More life now! A manifesto for rejuvenative technology

We need to drive a flowering of rejuvenative technology – sustainable in its impact and biotic in its nature – increasing the sum total of life on Earth.

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?

A desirable property…how might we value our home planet?

This post presents 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.

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