What is Ecological Overshoot? (And why is it so controversial?)
Whether it’s by design or disaster, our voyage into overshoot will come to an end. On its voyage to the moon in 1972, the Apollo 17 spacecraft took one of the most…
Are Billionaires Sustainable?
Sustainability can’t be achieved without a massive redistribution of wealth The world's billionaires are revered, respected, worshipped as if deities—gods amongst mere mortals. As the richest and most successful people in the…
How Do We Move From An Unsustainable Society to a Sustainable One?
Backcasting could support the transformation of society onto a sustainable path Our behaviour is triggering some pretty horrifying environmental changes. Changes that have, for example, induced a climate crisis that risks…
The Five Why’s of Sustainability
Asking these five questions takes us beyond the obvious symptoms to discover the root cause of climate change. As you walk into the Shard in London (Europe’s tallest building), there is…
Can Wealth Redistribution Unlock a Sustainable Future?
Reaching destination sustainability requires radical change In 2020 global wealth reached a staggering $514 trillion. With 60 per cent of that wealth in the top ten richest nations, you would imagine every…
The Sustainability Catch-22
And why chickens can’t lay square eggs There once lived a chicken who had a peculiar dream. That dream was to lay a square-shaped egg. The chicken spent every moment of every…