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News, events and recent work - a selection
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James' ultra-simple design for a biochar-making cooker offers the breakthrough of making carbon-negative cooking accessible to everyone everywhere. The cooker provides a similar experience to a gas cooker while reversing rather than worsening climate disruption. BlindSpot has partnered with the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves and other partners and sponsors are warmly invited. |
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After 20 years, international climate talks have cut global emissions by... nothing at all. This has prompted no "why isn't this working?" agenda item and no attempt to redesign a process that has inadvertently perpetuated the same kinds of thinking that causes the problems. BlindSpot's redesign of the international climate process will be presented to the UNFCCC via the UN Climate Neutral Network. The work is now open for consultation - please add your comment. |
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On-line community for global-scale systems thinking. A
major international collaboration of 500 systems professionals and
enthusiasts, launched and led by BlindSpot. This project uses the public 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. How to quickly implement 'circular economics' and get 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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