Together the switches define a practical strategy for global security; for a serious attempt at revival of co-operation, ecosystems and prosperity.
Seven Policy Switches for Global Security
Published as ‘advanced research’ by the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme.
Abstract
Everyone desires a secure life. Yet the secur [...]
Seven Policy Switches for Global Secu...
Together the switches define a practical strategy for global security; for a serious attempt at revival of co-operation, ecosystems and prosperity.
Seven Policy Switches for Global Security
Published as ‘advanced research’ by the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme.
Abstract
Everyone desires a secure life. Yet the secur [...]
The big ridiculous blindspot of globa...
Submission to United Nations Consultation on Environmental Sustainability. See the consultation report and add your thoughts at http://www.worldwewant2015.org/node/360463 The link to my comment on the UN site.
I applaud the hard work, sincerity and admirable values reflected in every word of this report. Furthermore I challenge the UN and ci [...]
Blindspotting hard-to-solve problems
Human eyesight has a blindspot where the bundle of optic nerves and blood vessels enter our eyes. A significant segment of our field of vision is missing though we don’t notice it’s missing because our brains hide these blindspots from perception.
Image: My eye (colour edited). Like blindspots in problem-solving, the pale blindspo [...]
Oops! Solving global problems in comp...
Rio+20 will mark twenty years since the Rio Earth Summit and forty years of International efforts since the Stockholm Conference of 1972. Despite all this effort and its achievements, civilisation remains increasingly insecure against a range of shocks with a potential for cascading impacts and irreversibility. It looks like the era of gradua [...]
We are just three steps from a circul...
It’s that simple, yet the case for incremental change remains stuck in a mindset groove. So how do we design ourselves out of this one, ponders James Greyson.
The circular economy vision is obvious and vital. It’s been obvious and vital for at least 47 years, since Kenneth Boulding first presented a paper entitled The economics o [...]
