An earnest attempt to encourage the inevitable transition of our economies would place small business at the center of the strategy.  Now personally, because of my libertarian leanings, I am not one to put much faith in government programs and massive intervention, but seeing as we are already spending upwards of 7 trillion dollars on [...]

As we push towards a truly green and sustainable revolution, business people and ecologists are increasingly forced to learn one another's language.  Since the inception of environmentalism as a movement, business and economic activity was implicitly viewed as anathema, cruel and unresponsive, and responsible for the destruction of the natural world.   Now, as climate change [...]

In the comment section of my most recent post, Tim from Kiva writes: The frustration lies in how the global warming cause can be a middle-to-upper middle class cause. Someone struggling to eat on a daily basis or ensuring a stable roof [...]

It was Descartes who was accused of splitting the world in two, between the material and the spiritual. In accord with a trend that began in the Renaissance, Descartes had inadvertently and finally delegated the indigenous knowledge of the artisan to the wood shops of history. [...]

The first advocate of Open Source was none other than the patron saint of neoliberal economics: Adam Smith. Although Smith's classic The Wealth of Nations has become the de-facto Bible of the neoliberal agenda, invoking Smith to justify cut-throat capitalism is nothing more than a distortion of his true philosophical [...]