Permabusiness exists to do three things: 1) show the problems with the current ways of doing business 2) show a vision/visions for what a better way(s) might look like 3) share tools for taking first steps that take us from where we are to where we [you] want to get to. The video below describes …
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Building blocks of a disruptive business model
When we start to see customers as part of our business model (see previous post) interesting, disruptive, and beneficial things can happen.
In search of financial safe havens
While the financial crisis marches on, and investors frantically seek out safe havens for their money, it is worth asking what a ‘safe haven’ would look like.
Choices
Late last night we were sent two links. The first is a video describing “How to use the Internet to make $1m in 18 months”. The second is a page describing how the latest CO2/climate data shows that the 2 degrees climate change we thought was ‘safe’ isn’t,
People power
As a further post-script to the Kübler-Ross piece earlier today, we ask you to think back one year to December 2010 and imagine that you are living in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, or Syria. If someone had told you that within 12 months Mubarak and Gaddafi would be gone, Osama bin Laden would be dead, that …
Kübler-Ross model
Over the weekend we reflected on some of the stories posted last week: increasing levels of methane from melting permafrost; the rising costs of climate change events; the fact that investments in renewable energy last year passed those in fossil fuel energy; and the fact that companies can now make plastic cups out of plants. …
Hope in a plastic cup
This plastic cup may not look like much but to me it is a symbol of hope. Because rather than being made from oil it is made from plant fibres. It is renewable and compostable. And what that means is that even though the world is changing, we will be able to find new ways …
It doesn’t matter whether climate change is real
It doesn’t matter whether climate change is man-made or even if it is 100% proven. My house didn’t burn down last year. It didn’t burn down the year before. It probably won’t burn down next year either, but it is still worth taking out insurance against the possibility that it might. We can’t take out …
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Live according to what you are here to give
Charles Eisenstein talks about the system we live in. Anything that can be articulated can only be articulated within the language of the current political discourse. And the underlying message of our culture is, “We don’t really need each other.” Because if we have money then we don’t really need people — if I alienate someone who …
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The coming world
Paul Hawken’s speech in 2007 talks about a growing change in the world, arising spontaneously from different cultures and economic sectors, growing and spreading worldwide. It is a movement for civil rights, human rights, social and environmental justice. And more.