In her most recent Letter, Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) Chair Carol Adams announced that “GSSB approved a proposal to develop (initially non-authoritative) guidance to help reporters use the process set out in GRI 3: Material Topics of determining and prioritising their organization’s significant impacts as a starting point for…

Synergizing Lyla June Johnston’s Indigenous Regenerative Ecosystem Design (IRED) and Avit Bhowmik’s Powers of 10 (P10) By Bill Baue Dr. Lyla June Johnston (www.lylajune.com) is a scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. She introduces into her 2023 doctoral dissertation in Indigenous Studies, Architects of…

By Bill Baue, r3.0 Senior Director “Sustainability requires contextualization within thresholds. That’s what sustainability is all about… We don’t have decades to get serious about Context in light of the ecological and social perils that lie ahead. I think the time for procrastination has passed and the time for aggressive…

Discovering and living the pluriversal mycelium By Ralph Thurm Reflections on ‘Another end of the world is possible’, by Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens and Gauthier Chapelle After having read Pablo Servigne’s and Raphaël Stevens first book ‘How everything can collapse’ (see our summary here) and recognizing patterns of collapse more…

Competition or Collaboration? The Ergodic Investor & Entrepreneur By Bill Baue Is it more advantageous to selfishly compete or altruistically collaborate? This age-old question underpins some of the fiercest debates in science, and spills into other realms, including ethics, of course, but also, perhaps less intuitively (but arguably more importantly)…

Interrogating Modernity By Bill Baue Modernity is a lot like air: we can’t see it or touch it, but we kinda just know it’s there. Or do we? I’ve been reading three books all interrogating the question of modernity. While this may seem an esoteric focus, I hope to explain…

r3.0 Public Comment on European Sustainability Reporting Standards Delegated Act By Bill Baue & Ralph Thurm The first word in the term Public Consultation Process makes it clear whose interests are ostensibly served by the process — those of the public. It seems as if the powers that be behind the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) have failed to metabolize…

Social Norms & Social Tipping Points — A Review of the Latest Research Part Two By Bill Baue Contextual Note: In Part One of this piece, we reviewed one recent paper in the emerging literature on social norms and social tipping points, co-authored by Jenn Cardinal, one of the speakers…

Social Norms & Social Tipping Points — A Review of the Latest Research Part One of Two By Bill Baue Almost a half century ago, my father — a cardiothoracic surgeon heading up Yale’s Department of Surgery — identified Multiple Systems Failure, the body’s response to trauma whereby the collapse…