BlindSpot is an independent think tank with a unique approach to solving intractable problems, that I call blindspotting. You’re blindspotting when you look for what keeps getting overlooked rather than the same answers that keep getting repeated. Blindspotting helps us to think differently about problems that are caused and allowed to continue by the same thinking. Blindspotting is handy for any tricky problems in life or work but I mostly tackle the complex global challenges that must all be urgently resolved for civilisation to continue.
BlindSpot provides research, talks, training and advice on fast large-scale change for business, government and NGOs internationally. My most ambitious work is the world’s first non-reductionist method for planet-scale transformation, led by Planet Levers Lab. My Climate Rescue Centre develops the breakthrough policy and practice needed to reverse climate change. The vision of a circular economy, that doesn’t need to make waste, is available with the ‘circular economics’ in my Circular Economy #4Real project. My Blindspotting project support habits of thinking able to solve problems at source.
James Greyson is Founder and CEO of BlindSpot Think Tank. James has over 20years professional experience with international sustainability and security challenges. His work ranges from designing advanced cookstoves enabling people in developing countries to make rather than burn charcoal, to publishing the world’s first economic instrument to enable circular flows of all resources, to providing NATO with a renewed global security vision and new policy levers to implement it.
James is a Research Fellow at Earth System Governance and Assessor at the UK government’s innovation agency. He advises the Katerva Awards, 2050Kids and the International Biochar Initiative. Connect with James on Linkedin and twitter @blindspotting & @climate_rescue.
Selected papers and presentations
Seven policy switches for global security. NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Split. (Publisher’s link, slides, published paper, event pdf, full paper as a series of blogs)
Unshrink thinking and reverse reverse-progress. TEDx Bradford (Slides, event page with summary, bio and video)
Systemic Economic Instruments for Energy, Climate, and Global Security. NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Naples. (Publisher’s link, slides, published paper)
An economic instrument for zero waste, economic growth and sustainability. Journal of Cleaner Production (Publisher’s link, paper on precaution.org)
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BlindSpot Expert Council
Baroness Anne Jenkin
UK House of Lords
Prof Paul Rogers
University of Bradford
Walter Stahel
Product Life Institute
Peter Lacy
Accenture Sustainability