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BlindSpot global revival think-tank
Have you had enough
of the Age of Austerity?
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News, events and recent work
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Please support BlindSpot's ambitious and innovative proposal to MIT's contest for a new future international climate agreement. Winning proposals will be included in briefings planned for key policy makers, including at the United Nations and U.S. Congress. Ours is currently 2nd of 29 proposals; please visit and click ' support'. |
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On-line community for global-scale systems thinking. A
major international collaboration of 350 systems professionals and
enthusiasts, launched and led by BlindSpot. This project uses the open platform Wiserearth to allow the widest possible 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. |
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Presentation and paper at an 'Advanced Research Workshop' for the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme. Together the switches of policy define a practical strategy for global security, for a serious attempt at revival of co-operation, ecosystems and prosperity. How to use policy leverage points for fast paradigm change in global systems. |
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Economics session at the Middle East Waste Summit. How to immediately take care of waste, toxics, pollution, loss of resources, loss of nature, climate change AND run a vigorous economic revival. 'Circular economics' and getting markets to work. |
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Keynote
talk. Disposal-based solutions to our waste
problem, such as landfill, incineration and MBT are now obsolete. An
innovative economic tool called 'precycling insurance' developed in the
NATO
Science Programme makes it possible to drive economic growth by rapidly
preventing waste, climate change and the loss of nature.
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Article/briefing for government ministers and UN stakeholders. A Happy Ending for the Sustainability, Peace and Growth Mystery? Our global predicament is like the plot of a detective thriller, with economic, ecological and social casualties piling up and a trail of clues that hides as much as it reveals. The story over recent decades has been exciting as a cast of the usual suspects were pursued in the hope of making a difference. Now the plot is at its dramatic climax; everything we value is in peril and time is running out to finally resolve the mystery.
Energy security, climate stability, sustainable development, economic growth and national security are indivisible goals; either all will be achieved or none. Irreversible failure with one or more of the goals may be avoidable with a non-reductionist approach to global complexity, using systemic interventions at leverage points, of which two are proposed. |
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