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The sustainability of profit – stop looking back

Why isn’t profit useful for measuring sustainability, or even for telling us much about economic viability? Because profit is a lagging indicator and sustainability is inherently about long-termism. Assessing and delivering sustainability requires forward-looking indicators.

Sustainable Finance – workshop report

In September 2017, we ran a Towards 9 Billion workshop on sustainable finance, to explore how the finance sector could build a sustainable future. To get the workshop report contact us.

How might the financial system build a sustainable future?

A sustainable financial system requires both rethinking the very nature of value, as well as creativity in how we would project that value over time.

Population & consumption: where’s the problem?

Alongside the challenges to sustainability we already face, there is growing concern about how these might accelerate in the future. One key issue is population growth and its impacts, but should the scale of humanity be seen as a threat or as an opportunity?

Towards 9 Billion books – out now!

Our free Towards 9 Billion books series. Big hopeful, playful ideas for a sustainable, equitable future.

Reinventing the Weal – Exploring the Commons (Part 2)

Preserving and enhancing Global Commons will require changes to systems of law, economics and ownership – an overview of existing and new ideas.

Questions for a sustainable world

Unless we ask the big questions, we won’t find the answers which meet the scale of the challenge we face.

Against a dark background – the limits of certainty

A sustainable future depends upon our ability to perceive the limits of certainty, and to embrace the uncertainty that has always been there.

A planetisation of finance: The Earth as a going concern

The motivation behind multi-capitals approaches is to highlight their value to the economy. Why not focus upon the value of the planet as a going concern?

Utility – the fundamental metric of social impact

Defining and delivering true social utility requires a fundamental perspective and approach to assessing the purpose of enterprise in the first place.

Show me the money! Sustainability and financial outperformance

There is plenty of evidence out there for sustainability and financial out performance, we must use such evidence to take us towards a brighter future.

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.

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.

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