Trust ratings & Future insights
Industrial activity creates many efficiencies, but it also creates a new problem that human societies have not been able to effectively address—the tendency toward depletion of resources at scale, with speed and effciency that no person or entity can manage or control. That has led us to a situation where we, as what Buckminster Fuller called a ‘world-around’ civilization, use…
Keep readingOn Thursday, the crew of the Artemis II mission executed a maneuver called the Translunar Injection burn. The TLI…
Fast-paced change disrupts trusted features of our living reality, and creates risks where we did not…
Money is a proxy; it carries meaning, without being bound to any one purpose. When money…
Disinformation advances by degrading our background of factual awareness and the related critical response to new information. Even if we remain skeptical, a reflexive mistrust of evidence can still be an erosion in critical thinking capability; in fact, that is the lever that is used to spread political division and to prevent people from accessing…
It is an unfortunate fact of our historical moment that across the world, people seem to be united by a worsening lack of trust in established institutions. There are many reasons for this, but the following stand out as common across the world: All of these dynamics, which are observable in everyday life around the…
The risks and costs imposed by climate-disrupting pollution are real, pervasive, and getting worse. This is an observable reality, not a forecast. Local communities, regional economies, and international supply chains, are all facing rising costs and increased risk of operational failure. Climate preparedness and resilience planning (CPR) is an operational imperative. The pervasive cost and…
Adaptive design thinking can rewire systems for success
With disaster costs reaching record levels, draining more and more money from public budgets and consumers’ pockets, we need to go beyond solutions. We need adaptive design thinking—oriented toward adaptive management of future risks and shock events, and toward the likely need to adjust course, innovate, and rapidly re-orient policies and investments to avoid maladaptation.
The purpose of the Active Value project is to develop the multidimensional metrics and multistakeholder consortium needed to make AVTR a fully functional, actionable insight platform, to inform decisions by consumers, government, investors, and institutions.
