What is Sustainable Innovation?

Posted on 09. Jan, 2012 by in 1 Sustainable Innovation

Fundamentally, sustainable innovation is about DESIGN – any kind of design – from widgets (products/services), to group process and organizational architecture, to full-on societies. It refers to an emerging new way of thinking. Creative, practical philosophies that are the foundation for Discovery Fuel’s work. Why? Because ‘sustainable‘ innovation has now become the primary global driving more »

Defining a Regenerative Commerce System

Posted on 05. Jan, 2012 by in 1 Sustainable Innovation, 4 Organizational Learning

Regenerative Commerce is a system based on a broader understanding of what it means to develop technology and business. DiscoveryFuel.com proposes that, using these principles, a region’s economic system can revitalize itself and perform beyond today’s assumptions and expectations. The following represent shifts in awareness of the models we use to create and innovate within more »

The Future of Innovation and Technology has Already been Figured Out by Nature One Million Years Ago

Posted on 07. Jun, 2011 by in 1 Sustainable Innovation

I’ll say it again: The future of innovation and technology has already been figured out by nature one million years ago. Watch this TED video …

Innovation: A Three Phase Transformation Process

Posted on 22. Mar, 2011 by in 1 Sustainable Innovation, 3 Collaborative Design

I often like to dabble in the abstract. There, I am taken to transitory state that help me feel closer to the Creative Source. For example: below consists of two intertwined trinity models, of which I like to play with when considering the architecture of ‘whole systems‘. These models help us to both ‘look at’ more »

Sustainability Reporting as Anchor for Innovation

Posted on 21. Dec, 2010 by in 1 Sustainable Innovation

The emerging ‘sustainability reporting’ movement has begun and is growing in leaps and bounds. This process can be much more than a way to report how a company is doing regarding sustainability. More so, it becomes the anchoring point for defining what and how new forms of innovation witll emerge within the organization. Sound strategic more »

Innovation is blinded by our assumptions

Posted on 27. Sep, 2010 by in 1 Sustainable Innovation

In this IONS audio, “Unexplained Mystery of Spontaneous Remission” with Brendan O’Regan, it explicitly describes how we suppress innovation by two things: 1- our assumptions and beliefs, that are founded in our education, that filters out and rationalizes outcomes that do not fit expected norms, and 2- our lack of choosing to study unexplained phenomena. more »

Innovation starts with the artist and is followed by the scientist

Posted on 26. Sep, 2010 by in 1 Sustainable Innovation

Artist Frank Chester has discovered how the heart works. It doesn’t pump blood, it ‘swirls’ blood. And is based in how the body designs itself – done using geometry (known as ‘sacred geometry’) that is mostly hidden to the common eye … including doctors. The interesting thing is that Frank is not a scientist by more »

The Paradox in ‘Sustainable’ Innovations

Posted on 06. Aug, 2010 by in 1 Sustainable Innovation

The Paradox in ‘Sustainable’ Innovations I want you to click on the picture of the ‘invention machine’ at the left and watch the video. As your watching the video, make a list of the things that (in your mind) make up ‘sustainable’ innovation, based on how they describe it to be. Then, look at your more »

Is There an Ecological Unconscious?

Posted on 23. Jul, 2010 by in 1 Sustainable Innovation, 2 Leadership Ecology

I find that this subject is one of the more revealing issues of our time. A place that requires us to reshape our understanding and meaning of ‘environment’. Read this great article on the link between our human psyche and the Earth. +++ By DANIEL B. SMITH Published: January 27, 2010 The terms in which more »

Unsustainable Everything

Posted on 09. Jun, 2010 by in 1 Sustainable Innovation, 4 Organizational Learning

I love it when somebody is able to synthesize the incoming data into a meaningful message. Watch this video and understand how the world economy works … I mean is ‘not’ working. Sustainability should go to another level of understanding for you after you watch this 4 minute clip.

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