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Are We Running Out of Natural Capital?

This is not a trick question but an honest ask.  We are dependent upon nature.  We can not live if the earth that hosts us is being expended, used up, exhausted. This weekend in the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof…

Recognizing the Changes We Need to Make

Whether we like it or not the world continually changes.  It is never standing still and we continually have to learn to adjust.   Our planet is an island and we have reached, or maybe even over reached, its limits. …

What is a Sustainable Community?

Many times I find myself in discussions around what a “sustainable” community is, and how it is different from a “normal” community. There really should be no difference when you think it through.  What we mean when we say “sustainable”…

Exploring the Concept of Shared Value

This month, Harvard Business Review's cover article is titled, "The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value". This is a great article. The concept of Shared Value is on the right track and trying to define a needed new paradigm, but it…

Holding Off the Tragedy of the Commons

The very challenging argument of the Tragedy of the Commons misses on a very big note. It lacks a fundamental solution driver called “innovation”.  If we don’t create and adapt we will not make it in the long term. "Tragedy…

The End of Many Things

As the old saying goes, "Things, they are a' changing..." Recently, Scientific American raised an interesting issue in its cover article, "Eternal Fascinations with the End." Is it the end? Are we truly facing our own demise? If so, how…

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