Product Innovations Show Why Sustainability is Still a Pipe Dream
What may appear to be an innovation makes us less sustainable The humble salt and pepper grinder doesn’t appear to be all that controversial. But the basic beliefs that led to…
Why Are Our Political Leaders Failing to Deal With the Climate Crisis?
They’re focusing on the wrong problem Failed political leadership is a major reason the climate crisis continues to get worse. Our political leaders aren’t brave enough, vocal enough, or visionary enough to…
Why the Right Incentives Can Trigger Social Transformation
Necessity is the mother of invention Unprecedented heat waves, biodiversity collapse, severe droughts and catastrophic flooding. That’s what the world is set to face if global temperatures increase by 4 °C…
Why No One In the Free World is Really All That Free
Freedom of the capitalist variety is a little overrated Take away someone’s freedom and you suck the air out of their lungs — you blind their eyes, cut out their tongues, block their…
Why Homelessness is Solvable, but Governments Don’t Want to Solve It
The homeless serve an important social purpose There’s a common perception that the homeless are to blame for their situation. They haven’t worked hard enough; they have the wrong attitude; they’re failures.…
How the Profit Motive Sucked the Soul Out of Music
Nothing is valued unless it can make money Every decade of the twentieth century was defined by a distinctive sound. Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry in the 1950s. The Beatles and Jimi…