Terrafiniti
Sustainability Consultancy, Sustainability Consultants, Sustainability
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?
Optimism for a sustainable future might be pointless in cosmic terms but then so is pretty much anything when viewed in this light.
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 …
Scarcity may be a simple and effective way of generating price but it is fatally flawed as an approach to delivering a sustainable future...
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 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.
Companies can use stakeholder engagement to gain strategic insight, spot risks and identify issues that might just come back to bite them.
Delivering sustainable capitalism - how the price mechanism must evolve.
Can capitalism be re-engineered to produce innately sustainable outcomes? We are optimistic that it can....
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 …
If your organisation either already reports or intends to produce a sustainability report, you need to think about independent assurance.
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, …
