Net positive
A few weeks ago I blogged about the idea that sustainability requires us to do more than just minimise our impacts. It requires us to generate a net increase in Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Meta-level
Strategic sustainability
The first step in tackling any issue is to understand what the problem is. So what do we mean by ‘sustainability’? The word is often bandied about vaguely, without defining Continue Reading →
Inequality in societies
Inequality (far from being ‘survival of the fittest’) is actually bad for the group as a whole. It has spread NOT because it is an inherently better system for survival, Continue Reading →
Where the bee sucks, there suck I
This morning I realised for the first time what this means. It means that I depend on where the bee sucks. The quality of ‘where the bee sucks’ affects me. Not Continue Reading →
Culture is the problem, and the solution
Here is a summary of where I am in my thinking at the moment. The video below then gives one concrete example of it. 1) Fish are not aware of Continue Reading →
Only playing
When two dogs meet they will often ‘play-fight’. One may pretend to bite or growl at the other, but will do it in a way that says, “I am biting Continue Reading →
We are all one system
When grasshoppers live in an environment where they are afraid of spiders their nitrogen content falls. Then when they then die, their bodies take longer to decompose. And they add Continue Reading →
Climate change is a symptom of our culture
The Year Without a Summer shows why addressing climate change is our number one priority. But the reality is, as Prince Charles has said, that “we are simply not reacting quickly enough.” Continue Reading →
Time to step up
When Jonathan Porritt blogged yesterday that David Cameron was not attending the Rio+20 talks but Unilever and Aviva were, he saw it as “a sign of our unsustainable times.” I Continue Reading →
Why the G20 haven’t changed
With the news from the G20 in Rio being widely-classed as ‘disappointing‘, a quote from the book I am reading on organisational-system change seems appropriate.