Imagination, Creativity, and Change 2 – reframing society 2

Our culture has all these people throughout history whom we revere for their creativity and inventiveness.  The names Gutenberg, Tesla, Edison, Carver, and Bell, are but a few who made great technological changes for society.  While today we might use names like Zuckerberg or Musk to show how creativity is Read more

Reframing and Visualizing a New Society 1

Jared Diamond writes in his book The World until Yesterday about how indigenous peoples lived for most of human existence in tribal societies.  He doesn’t paint a utopia, yet explains why the tribal system worked overall.  Relatively recently in human history we moved from hunter-gatherer tribal systems into farming communities Read more

The Exponential Function

Some Left brain stuff today. The late Professor Al Bartlett at University of Colorado-Boulder spent many years doing public talks about the concept of growth and sustainability in connection with modern economic business thinking and planning. A lot hinges on the terms growth and sustainability. Is there such a thing Read more

The Hierarchy 2 – Waiting for Superman.

“Remember, everything is right until it’s wrong. You’ll know when it’s wrong” Ernest Hemingway. In the film ‘The Matrix’ The hero Neo takes the red pill and awakens from his illusion of the consumer lifestyle to find himself in a dystopian ruined world run by artificial intelligence. He is the Read more

How the Control happens

John commented: “SL is a very difficult but essential challenge and means lots of different things to folk and organisations. It is amazing how many corporates use the word ‘sustainable’ in their mission statements and this often forms part of their marketing message without any substance. Then there is sustainable Read more

Economics and Well-Being 1

Let’s begin today’s blog with some definitions to make a long, complicated story simple. WEALTH – a large amount of something good Cambridge Dictionary ‘Wealth’ comes from the old English ‘weal’, which means ‘wealth, welfare, and wellbeing’. Weal is in turn related from common word roots to the older word Read more