[note: a draft for a wider business audience, with all new graphs, is “A decisive moment for investing in sustainability“]
For “what to do” from an environmental and systems science view, see also the 6/10/11 notes for Alex Jakulin’s Foo Camp talk on my work and my various discussions of the natural limit for money that […]
Dan Ariely gave a recent talk on some of his new “Predictably Irrational” research. It stimulated my thinking to ask, using his approach, “What beliefs do people not dare check?”. The example below suggests that is a problem for the green movement, regarding why it has been ineffective in slowing the growth of economic impacts. […]
Two posts to the WNYC “What happens after Revolution” page.
– 2/4/11 Use natural systems science….
I’m a scientist who studies the revolutions in natural systems that nature uses to create everything, how a “calm before a storm” becomes a “viral event” that then “graduates” from one level of organization to another… “disrupting and remaking” its environmental […]
Brian Lehrer on WNYC radio asked that question “What happens after the revolution?” to discuss the experience of people that might apply to the amazing events in Egypt and the Arab world, and what follows.
I’m a scientist who studies the revolutions in natural systems that nature uses to create everything, how a “calm before a […]
- Read my site (& your world..) with some of these questions in mind and it could help -
People get into trouble with believing the stories we make up for ourselves, that consciousness presents to us as fact. If we get attached to our stories we find it hard to change them as new facts […]
Profit comes from organization, creating new forms of energy use.
It’s the organization of the whole that results in new and greater value from the parts of a system.
Investors like that, because putting money (energy use credits) in, to help get organized helps create more profits in terms of producing surplus energy credits.
To organize, the parts […]
There’s been a fascinating discussion on the Monbiot Discussions of the Biblical model of nature as controlled by an authoritarian master, given to humans for us to “be fruitful and multiply” our “dominion” over and “domesticate” (both English words from the same Latin and older roots), and so treat as part of our household and […]
that starts from Monopoly and you actually get to figure out a good end.
– from a The Finance Lab conversation responding to a finance learning game idea raised by Mark Gater –
Phil Henshaw on 3/18/10
How about if you made it fairly realistic, allowing money holdings to continue growing normally even when the amount of product […]
To ask the right question is how we can reduce our negative impacts on the world. Choosing the right things to spend on doesn’t really do that, for two very good reasons. Most money you spend will have about average impacts per dollar anyway. If you think where money goes and how each product takes […]
I think the answer is, well, yes of course… Most people seem to
intuitively confuse increasing their access to resources with increasing the
supply when increasing their access to resources actually decreases the earth’s
supply.
This is another way to understand the various mysterious efforts
to reduce the impacts of growth by streamlining and accelerating growth, which
of course multiplies its […]