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I just love this story……

“Consider what happened in Borneo in the 1950’s. Many Dayak villagers had malaria, and the World Health Organisation had a solution that was simple and direct. Spraying DDT seemed to work: Mosquitoes died, and malaria declined. But then an expanding web of side effects started to appear. The roofs of peoples houses began to collapse, because the DDT had also killed tiny parasitic wasps that had previously controlled thatch-eating caterpillars. The colonial government issued sheet-metal replacement roofs, but people couldn’t sleep when tropical rains turned the tin roofs into drums. Meanwhile, the DDT-poisoned bugs were being eaten by geckoes, which were eaten by cats. The DDT invisibly built up  in the food chain and began to kill the cats. Without the cats, Read the rest of this entry »

Part of the impetus for setting up this blog and the web-site is a book I’m currently reading called Natural Capitalism. It is an easy and interesting read and fits very nicely with the central theme of this blog….that the thinking that has served us well in the past isn’t going to work in future. The world has gotten too complex and changes too rapidly for the old ways to work. And, specific to this books ideas, resources are no longer as cheap  and as abundant as they once were.

The book introduces new ways to think about how we account for natural resources in our industrial processes Read the rest of this entry »

I was going to change the title because it is just the title of the default post you get when you set up a blog. But it seems pretty apt and no point changing it for the sake of changing it. So….hello world! Always nice to get the hello’s out of the way I feel.:-)

This blog is my way of making a contribution to the ‘discussion’…if you know what I mean. As those of you who know me can attest, I am very good at having an opinion on something…just about anything in fact :-)…but not so good at doing anything about it. Well this is me ‘doing something about it’. A couple of years ago I was introduced to some very interesting and thought provoking concepts through the leadership unit that I was asked to teach at a Business School here is Western Australia.

The central theme of the concepts Read the rest of this entry »