by Gil Friend | Apr 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Last week I asked: “If your company were focused on building regenerative capacity—its own, of its value chain, of its communities, of the local and planetary ecosystems that support it—how might you do your business differently? What new opportunities might...
by Gil Friend | Apr 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
“For 25 years sustainable development has been held up as the solution to the world’s problems. But instead we have had ever more pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change. Sustainability has been abused like few other terms in history. It is time to think...
by administrator | Apr 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Beyond “sustainability.” It needs to be about more than minimizing the damage that modern society inflicts on the living systems that sustain it. And certainly more than minimizing the damage “only if we can afford to,” or “only as much...
by Gil Friend | Apr 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
This morning I posted Beyond “Sustainability”: Better Questions. This afternoon a new book arrived: The Upcycle, by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. The subtitle: Beyond Sustainability: Designing for Abundance. Exactly.
by Gil Friend | Apr 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Last week I began a conversation with you (and my Inside Sustainability subscribers) about “What’s beyond sustainability?”—and promised to continue this week what I’m thinking now. It’s this: The best of “sustainability”—for all the...
by Gil Friend | Apr 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’ve written the last few weeks about systems thinking, its power and challenges. (You can catch up here and here.) Here’s where that thinking is currently taking me. For all of the initiatives around sustainability over the past couple of decades, for all...
