Geoengineering – are you feeling lucky?
Geoengineering is sometimes discussed as a viable option to tackle climate change. Is it wise to rely upon hope and chance for our planetary future?
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Terrafiniti on Huffington Post
19th November 2014 Our Days are Worth Years Is time running out for a sustainable world? Every day we are assailed with bad news about the environmental and social challenges coming our way. By 2050 we are told, we will have many millions (even billions) of hungry mouths to feed and less food, water or …
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?
Traffic Jams – the manifest will of the people?
The mass effect of individual actions can produce an outcome at odds with the original intent of those decisions. Is this the manifest will of the people?
Out with the old? 350 or 355 ppm?
Out with the old? The “new” seldom really is new, built as it so often is upon the ramshackle foundations of the old – not upon fresh footings of its own.
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.
Capitalism – what is the point?
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.
Towards Rejuvenative Enterprise, Beyond Sustainability
The future evolution of business; Rejuvenative Enterprises will thrive upon the changes our planet faces, for the good of all.
Terrafiniti on Sustainable Brands
27th March 2014 Beyond Sustainability, Towards Rejuvenative Enterprise The time has come to build a world where we can welcome 9 billion people rather than fear their arrival. A future of healthy and thriving ecosystems and 9 billion capable citizens is an ambitious vision and a powerful driver for the development of economies, businesses and …
Sustainability: 21st Century Natural Philosophy
Sustainability echoes the European Enlightenment period. Today, 21st century Natural Philosophers hold their thinking up against today's orthodoxies.
Terrafiniti on Sustainable Brands
13th March 2014 Sustainability: 21st Century Natural Philosophy …We are at a point in our species’ history when the need for change has never been stronger. Therefore it is with some frustration that the change we require remains ever out of reach, trampled by business as usual. ….However, the lack of mainstream acceptance of sustainability …