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.
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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?
Can standards deliver a sustainable world?
Can sustainability standards drive the innovation we need for a sustainable future?
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
The Green Investment Bank – is it a bank and will it be green?
There is huge demand for investment in ‘green economy’ projects - will the UK Government's Green Investment Bank be up to the job?
Terrafiniti on 2Degrees
24th September 2012 5 minutes with Joss Tantram, an interview on 2degrees Exploring perspectives on sustainable business, 2 degrees caught up with Joss for this interview.
Terrafiniti in the Huffington Post
21st September 2012 Would you invest in Earth Inc? – An IPO for the Earth in HuffPost In this Huffington Post article, John Friedman explores our (Terrafiniti’s) modest proposal for an IPO (Initial Public Offering) for the Earth. Can innovation in finance and economics deliver a way of valuing our only home?
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 …