Optimize your system
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There is Progress: It Must be Accelerated. Here’s Our Method for Doing So
Two tipping points are competing to determine our future. The first is visible and physical – melting glaciers, flooded cities, and sunken islands. The second is a social tipping point – subtler, less dramatic and less observable, but just as real: melting resistance to engaging in sustainability, and a rising tide of climate action. Here’s our method for ensuring the second one wins.
Industry awards
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A Forest on the Corner: Moss, CO2 and City Trees
A simple, compact, and low-maintenance living agent that can do the work of a small forest – harvest CO2, fix nitrogen, pull many other toxins from the air and, crucially, give off oxygen – could transform the air quality in cities right where the worst pollution is found. As it happens, moss is does all of that and more.
Davos Declarations
Prior to the 2020 WEF meeting, a letter from the chairman to his members read, in part, “We look forward to the Annual Meeting being a breakthrough moment for business action on climate change.” Many seem to have taken that seriously. Here are some of the commitments that struck us most forcibly.
Business consulting ethics
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Dark Solar: Feel the Power of the Dark Side
Scientists have revealed Dark Matter and Dark Energy, but now they’ve rolled out the most improbable ‘dark’ of all: Dark Solar, the Dark Side of solar power. This could square the circle of renewable energy and be a boon to the 13% of humanity living without electricity. If even half the energy of photovoltaic cells can be realized at night, that would equal the output of almost 36 nuclear reactors.
If Now Was the Future Then, When is the Future Now?
Every prior generation had some upcoming date, event or achievement that served as a metaphor for The Future. For many, that future was 2020. Now it has arrived. But If Now Was the Future Then, When is the Future Now?
Good, Bad, Ugly and…Much Better?
When the Beatles’ John Lennon first heard Paul McCartney’s It’s Getting Better all the Time , he had only one suggestion, adding, “can’t get no worse,” to the chorus. The former sentiment is, in fact, true. The latter is not: It can get worse.
It is possible to continue the good trends while changing the bad ones and It is our task now to stop the slide and make the world much better.
Impact Science Part II: Submerged Value
Robert K. Merton, the giant of modern sociology, coined the term the Law of Unanticipated Consequences. He identified two types of consequences: intended, or what he called ‘manifest’ consequences; and unintended, or ‘latent’ ones. Okay, but what does social theory have to do with sustainability? Hmmm. What if we told you that a huge portion of the…
