James Greyson, making global systems change look easy! James specialises in global whole systems change. This means achieving the security and sustainability that society has been attempting in vain for more than 40 years. Change at the necessary scale and speed is not particularly difficult, but oddly it's not actually been attempted. Almost all initiatives focus in comfort-zones interested in only a portion of global complexity. Yet the complexity of the whole system can be managed only as a whole, with immediate benefits to businesses, governments and communities that take part.  Please get in touch for help bringing global systems change opportunities into your business, region or organisation. James has over 20 years experience as an international sustainability speaker, researcher and thought-leader; applying an exceptional ability to work beyond the bounds of convention and to design ready-to-use policy solutions. He has worked with groups of all kinds from primary-school children to the government sector to the senior leadership of multi-national companies.  In response to the critical need for new outcomes for the climate, co-operation, finances and resources, James has made openly available designs for a 'game changing' market-based instrument and other powerful paradigm-switching tools. These are major breakthroughs, including how to account for 'market externalities' preventively, how economic competitiveness could cut weapons spending, and how to make drastic global emissions cuts with no need for agreement on capping emissions.  In 2005 James founded the global revival think-tank, BlindSpot for the collaborative development of systemic policy options capable of working at sufficient scale and speed. He presents his research in NATO Advanced Research Workshops and publishes in the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme. James takes part in the EU-funded Global System Dynamics Network, connecting international expertise in policy-making informed by understanding whole-systems. He has also been active with the UN Climate Neutral Network and the UK Sustainable Development Panel.  James leads a major international collaboration of 500 systems-thinking experts and enthusiasts, 'Fixing Systems Not Symptoms'. This network uses the web-platform Wiserearth to allow wide participation in “designing and inspiring radical change in the game rules and paradigms that determine whether things will get better or worse everywhere”. New participants are welcome. As a practical demonstration of the huge untapped potential to reverse multiple problems, James regularly presents his designs for easy-to-make cooking stoves that burn biomass and produce 'biochar' for improving soils - a carbon-negative process! This would be ideal for widespread use in both 'developing' and 'developed' nations.

Contact details for James Greyson at BlindSpot global revival think-tank

Mailing address: PO Box 140, Lewes BN7 9DS, East Sussex, UK

Telephone: 01273-814945  International phone: +44-1273-814945

Email: contact AT blindspot. org. uk

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Or reach James via his Wiserearth profile.

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Background:

Recent peer-reviewed papers:

Seven Policy Switches for Global Security (link for public dialogue) NATO Science Programme, 2010. Publisher's link (for all institutional uses).

Recent conference presentations:

From credit crunch to planet crunch - or revival?  Middle East Waste Summit, Dubai.