Andrew Crosby – Medium

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A Brief Agenda for the Next Renaissance

In the most consequential era since the Renaissance, humanity faces a profound transformation in which our future hangs between the limitless potential of knowledge-driven transformation and a precipice of environmental and social collapse delivered by our own actions. Citizens, governments, businesses, and philanthropists must mobilise around a new narrative for…

Digital Economy

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Jan 5

The electoral majority gained in Greenland’s 6 April election of the Inuit Ataqatigiit party provides a legislative opportunity for new leadership at a time when the foreign-led mining of rare earths looked poised to proceed. The party has advocated for a halt and re-evaluation of the license granted to the Australian — Chinese dominated Greenland Minerals company and to refocus on a development path that is consistent with the long-term viability of Greenland’s citizens and particularly aspects of its natural environment. A shift in the tiny population of only 56,000 may not halt mining, which along with fisheries, provides major proportions of income for the people, but it reflects the growing awareness of the importance of environmental issues for the island’s future.

Movements Making Space Need People Taking Place

Andrew Crosby

A hopeful and perhaps unexpected turn of events, it seems that all new exploration of oil and gas…

A hopeful and perhaps unexpected turn of events, it seems that all new exploration of oil and gas is on hold for the long term. https://www.optimistdaily.com/2021/12/greenland-permanently-bans-all-oil-and-gas-exploration/

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Aug 4, 2021

It’s About Time

The way our conception of time shapes our world has become increasingly appreciated by those advocating for flourishing and synergistic human and natural systems. We live in a ticking-clock world that is increasingly overshadowed by climate change and related crises that are pre-built into our futures. It will take us…

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·Apr 23, 2021

Preoccupied With Green Efficiency, We Suppress Green Shoots

Why do obsolete practices and beliefs persist? Inertia, fatigue, entrenched power, and lack of vision all impede their displacement in creating the systems and societies that reflect today’s challenges and opportunities. …

Regeneration

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Preoccupied With Green Efficiency, We Suppress Green Shoots

Apr 13, 2021

Movements Making Space Need People Taking Place

Indigenous communities notched two small but remarkable triumphs last week achieving success in strengthening local long-term priorities over short-term business interests. In both cases — one in Greenland and the other in the US state of Minnesota — communities have put a hold on destructive and potentially risky economic deals…

Regeneration

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Movements Making Space Need People Taking Place

Mar 30, 2021

Another Community Joins the Slow But Critical Work of Transformation

Meyrin, a city in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, adopted a climate emergency charter last week. Meyrin was not the first Swiss city to sign up. …

Regeneration

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Another Community Joins the Slow But Critical Work of Transformation

Mar 18, 2021

Danone’s Dilemma: The Heat of Markets Wilts Regenerative Innovation

The ousting of Danone’s Chair and CEO, Emmanuel Faber, illustrates a painful lesson — likely to be repeated — on the dangers of established corporations getting out in front and walking the talk on sustainability and regeneration. …

Thirdhorizonearth

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Danone’s Dilemma: The Heat of Markets Wilts Regenerative Innovation

Mar 13, 2021

…ning is bad for the environment, but there has been relatively little pressure to do much about it. People who wouldn’t be caught dead in a gas-guzzling SUV are still shamelessly touting bitcoin.

The True Cost of Bitcoin and NFTs

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Hardly a need for comment. Wow, gee, really?

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Hardly a need for comment. Wow, gee, really?

Jan 21, 2021

It Is Time for America to Grow Up

We are in for a reckoning when our social fabric and societal systems become too brittle to adapt. The release of the report of the 1776 Commission — a Trump response to current events calling into question equality, racial justice, and liberalism — on Martin Luther King Day contrasts with…

Regeneration

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Dec 19, 2020

After the Gold Rush, What Is Over the Third Horizon?

Andrew Crosby & Hugo Araujo There is broad recognition that ecological and economic upheaval are driving humanity toward an inflection point. Depending on who you ask, we are variously on the road to destruction, the road to redemption, or the road to regenerative revolution, and points in between. We are…

Regeneration

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After the Gold Rush, What Is Over the Third Horizon?