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Date: 2024-10-14 Page is: DBtxt003.php L070-II-INTERESTING-IDEAS
INTERESTING IDEAS
IDEAS about how the Socio-Enviro-Economic System works.
And especially how it can be improved!
BASIC INCOME
Financial income is an important component of quality of life (though by no means the only one). Structural changes in the workings of the economic system means that the historic correlation between jobs and sufficient income are being disrupted with many undesirable social consequences. The idea of a basic income (also referred to as guaranteed basic income, universal basic income, etc) has been proposed, but the question of how it can be financed has not been resolved.
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CAPITAL is STATE
Every year, the President of the United States gives a speach in Congress on the STATE of the UNION. It is a report on the STATE of everything in the nation, that is ALL of the CAPITAL of the nation. This report is a lot more than just a financial report, it is a report about the state of everything that is important for the nation. Interestingly, measuring STATE at a point in time is much easier than measuring performance which is always moving and very much more complicated. Better yet, it is possible to measure PROGRESS over a period of time simply by comparing STATE at the beginning of the period (BoP) with the STATE at the end of the period (EoP).
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CARBON FOOTPRINT
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CARING ECONOMY
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CIRCULAR ECONOMY
The LINEAR economy has a financial efficiency, but tolerates waste and degradation of the environment, and expenses human capital. The CIRCULAR economy is an idea that addresses these issues in a coherent holistic manner.
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CROWD FUNDING
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DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS
An IDEA articulated by Kate Rayworth where an improving social impact reaches towards the doughnut and an unfavorable environmental impact reaches beyond the donut. It is an elegant way of presenting information but like all the graphics that present as some form of circle makes comparative data difficult to sho and therefore difficult to show trends.
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ECONOMIC PLURALISM
Scientists know a lot about the importance of ecosystem services, but there are no metrics yet that convey this to the corporate boardroom and other centers of decision making.
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ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Scientists know a lot about the importance of ecosystem services, but there are no metrics yet that convey this to the corporate boardroom and other centers of decision making.
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ESG / Environmental and Social Governance
Quality ESG (Environmental-Social-Governance) is a good characteristic of a company, but it is the actual triple bottom line performance of the company that really matters.
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EP&L / Environmental Profit and Loss Account
An environmental profit and loss account was prepared by Kering in 2013
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FAITH
One of the oldest ideas in the history of mankind ... but too often a source of division rather than unity ... a source of hate not love!
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GREEN NEW DEAL
An emerging initiative that addresses both the crisis of global warming and extreme weather and One of the oldest ideas in the history of mankind ... but too often a source of division rather than unity ... a source of hate not love!
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ICO - Initial Coin Offering
The ICO has a huge potential to produce financial bubbles ... but blockchain may also be a solution to some of the biggest issues of our time
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INVISIBLE HAND
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KILLOWATT CARD
An idea originated by the P2P Foundation around 2009
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LEVERAGE POINTS
Dana-Meadows-Leverage-Points
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LIFE-CYCLE-ANALYSIS
LIFE-CYCLE-ANALYSIS
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LIFE CYCLE IMPACT ANALYSIS
AN INITIATIVE OF TVM TO INTEGRATE LIFE-CYCLE-ANALYSIS INTO MANAGEMENT
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MEANINGFUL BRANDS
WHAT BRANDS MUST DO IN THE MODERN WORLD
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MICROFINANCE
LIFE-CYCLE-ANALYSIS
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MuSIASEM
Multi-scale integrated analysis of societal and ecosystem metabolism (MuSIASEM)
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NO-GROWTH PROSPERITY
Prosperity through 'growth' has existential risks that must not be ignored. The evidence suggests that society and the environment require a very different policy framing than the one that has been used in the last hundred years.
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PLANETARY B0UNDARIES
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PLATFORM COOPERATIVISM
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PURPOSE
A concept being used more and more in the aftermath of extreme weather events
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RESILIENCE
A concept being used more and more in the aftermath of extreme weather events
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SOCIAL BUSINESS
A very basic idea that should be at the center of everything ... in reality, marginalized
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SMART SUSTAINABLE CITIES
A very basic idea that should be at the center of everything ... in reality, marginalized
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SPIRAL DYNAMICS
An idea originated by Don Beck
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STANDARD VALUE PROFILES
An idea emerging as part of the True Value Impact Accounting (TVIA) initiative
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STEADY STATE ECONOMY
An idea first promulgated by Herman Daly
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SUFFICIENCY ECONOMY
An idea that originated with the King of Thailand in the 1970s
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SUSTAINABLE FINANCE
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SUSTAINABILITY
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TAU (Transaction Agreement Unit) ... an initiative of Doug McDavid
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TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE
An idea first described by John Elkington in 1994
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UNITS OF ACCOUNT
Multiple units of currency are commonplace ... TVM uses the same construct for different impacts and capitals
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UNSUSTAINABILITY
A better way to think about 'sustainability' in order to have meaningful measurement
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WASTONOMICS
The way measurement of economic performance has been done for the last hundred years encourages waste at every stage of the socio-enviro-economic system except when ti comes to financial costs in producing organizations. Worse, producing organizations are incentivized to encourage waste in every part of the system except their own!
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AMAZING POSSIBILITIES
In my experience there are many very nice people on this planet ... many who have a very different background and life experience to my own ... who would welcome a better quality of life and be very grateful for it.
There is also amazing technology, very little of which is being used to make the world a better place.
When nice people are anabled to have a better quality of life using amazing modern technology, the world can be a far better place.
But this requires a change in thinking by many of those that currently have control of both money and politics.
Progress is possible ... but it will take perseverance.
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HUNDREDS OF IDEAS
Navigation to IDEAS by theme (alphabetic) There are hundreds of ideas ... probably thousands ... many of them of considerable merit.
Some, of course, will never work ... but many can be the basis of initiatives that will help to make the world a better place.
Sadly, many good ideas ... indeed most ... will never be used because they are poorly communicated and never funded.
These are hundreds that we know about!
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THINKERS ... WHERE IDEAS COME FROM
Navigation by NAMEe of the THINKER / THOUGHT LEADER (alphabetic) There are many thinkers ... many associated with well known academic institutions, others who are independent.
Truly independent thinking is not easy, because there are strong disincentives to any change in the conventional wisdom.
Some of these disincentives come from the way peer review works
Other disincentives come from inappropriate linkage between the researcher and the source of funding for the research.
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