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  • Complexity ·

Shifting From Parts to Patterns

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.” – Leonardo Da Vinci I had the pleasure of hearing my friend Nora Bateson speak last week at The Players Club in New York City where she held a reading and conversation around her recently published book, Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns. If that title slows you…
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  • John Fullerton·
  • April 4, 2017 4:12 pm·
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  • Evergreen Direct Investing ·

Hell No!

Sustainability icon and Unilever CEO Paul Polman made his feelings crystal clear on the unsolicited merger offer last week by Kraft Heinz, backed by the Brazilian cost-cutters at 3G Capital and their partner Warren Buffett:  the proposed deal, Unilever said, “had no merit, either financial or strategic.”  Ouch. I recall early in Polman’s CEO tenure hearing him say there were…
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  • John Fullerton·
  • February 28, 2017 9:00 pm·
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  • Capitalism ·

Broken Trust

At this year’s World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, Switzerland, PR firm Edelman shared its comprehensive annual Trust Barometer, confirming what we all know: global trust in institutions and leaders is at an all-time low.  Fully two-thirds of countries are now considered “distrusters” (under 50% trust in the mainstream institutions of business, government, media and NGOs to do what is right),…
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  • John Fullerton·
  • January 27, 2017 1:25 pm·
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  • City States ·

City States Rising!

Globalism’s associated and accelerating complexity of interconnected crises from migration to terrorism, from pandemics to climate change, define the new context of our 21st-century reality.  Unmanaged technological change and an outdated economic ideology compound the already unfair burden these crises impose on global citizens.  One need only consider the 18 percent approval rating of the United States Congress, the recent…
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  • John Fullerton·
  • December 29, 2016 3:39 am·
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  • Amazon ·

Dear Cities: Resist Amazon’s HQ2

There is something untoward about the feeding frenzy we are witnessing as cities across the country vie to be the site of Amazon’s second headquarters (“HQ2”). Amazon, after all, is the poster child for driving, first, independent booksellers and then retailers out of business, hollowing out communities across America. It is considered a meat grinder for white-collar workers who churn…
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  • John Fullerton·
  • September 30, 2017 6:07 pm·
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  • Climate Change ·

President-Elect Trump: A Gift?

Imagine if you can, Donald Trump has arrived as a gift, to illuminate for us the American “shadow” at this pivotal moment in history. The Swiss Psychiatrist C.G. Jung refers to “the shadow” as the dark side of one’s self. The shadow, Jung wrote in 1963, “is that hidden, repressed, for the most part inferior and guilt-laden” aspect of our…
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  • John Fullerton·
  • November 10, 2016 10:37 pm·
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  • Future of Finance ·

Sail On, Sail On, Sailor

The following blog post originally appeared on EcoWatch.com. “Our vision is millions of people living and working in space, and New Glenn is a very important step,” said Jeff Bezos, unveiling this week his space travel company Blue Origin’s giant rocket named after Astronaut John Glenn. Of course there is also billionaire entrepreneur extraordinaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Richard Branson’s Virgin…
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  • John Fullerton·
  • September 16, 2016 1:08 pm·
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  • Financial Transactions Tax ·

Brexit: Ignorance Calls Out Ignorance

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Mark Twain Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair discussed the momentous June 23 Brexit Referendum on a still “Too Big to Fail” bank conference call last week. Revealing how he really felt near the end of the interview,…
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  • John Fullerton·
  • July 12, 2016 12:17 pm·
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  • Future of Finance ·

What’s the Matter with America? The Breakdown of Love, Strength & Intelligence

The following guest blog post is by Dr. Sally Goerner, Capital Institute’s Science Advisor. Why have millions of American voters selected Donald Trump, a narcissistic, neo-fascist salesman whose policies run from irrational to dangerous? There are, of course, many facets to this conundrum. Here, I explore its deeper psychological underpinnings in hopes that our leaders might better understand its causes and…
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  • John Fullerton·
  • June 21, 2016 8:32 pm·
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  • Future of Finance ·

To Break ‘Em Up, or Not to Break ‘Em Up, That Is the (Wrong) Question

    Over the coming months, I will be finalizing a white paper whose working title is “Fixing Finance: System Design in Service of the Regenerative Economy.” I will be drawing on the eight principles of Regenerative Economics[1] to explore an aspirational framework for the redesign of global finance. This is the first in a series of articles, previewing ideas…
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  • John Fullerton·
  • May 23, 2016 2:33 pm·
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  • Future of Finance ·

Trump, Sanders, and the Collapse of the American Oligarchy

  The following guest blog post is by Dr. Sally Goerner, Capital Institute’s Science Advisor. “The collapse of urban cultures is an event much more frequent than most observers realize. Often, collapse is well underway before societal elites become aware of it, leading to scenes of leaders responding retroactively and ineffectively as their society collapses around them.” – Sander Vander Leeuw,…
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  • John Fullerton·
  • April 26, 2016 9:21 pm·
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  • Energy Efficiency ·

Capital Institute Goes to Buffalo

I had the privilege of spending a full day in Buffalo last week before delivering a lecture on Regenerative Capitalism, at the invitation of Amit Goyal, Director of the State University of New York at Buffalo’s RENEW Institute. Regenerative thinking and action is what defines an emergent Buffalo. It is taking place across scales, and it is working at the…
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  • John Fullerton·
  • April 26, 2016 9:00 pm·
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  • Future of Finance ·

Why Extreme Inequality Causes Economic Collapse

This week’s guest blogger is Dr. Sally Goerner, Capital Institute’s Science Advisor. John Fullerton’s white paper, Regenerative Capitalism, lists eight principles critical to systemic economic health. The Capital Institute’s research group, RARE[1], uses recent scientific advances – specifically, the physics of flow[2]– to create a logical and measurable explanation of how these principles work to make or break vitality in the…
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  • designburd·
  • February 15, 2016 1:49 am·
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  • Ammon Bundy ·

What Bundy and His Merry Militia Can Learn From TransCanada

Ammon Bundy and his assault-rifle-packing militia took over the Malheur National Refuge in eastern Oregon to kick off the New Year. Their gripe appears to be the Federal Government’s pesky grazing regulations interfering with their “right” to earn a profit off government land.[1] Gonna’ be a showdown at the last chance corral I guess. Now I imagine Bundy and the…
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  • John Fullerton·
  • January 11, 2016 4:50 pm·
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  • Climate Change ·

Progress at COP Encouraging, But Misses Pope Francis as Modernity’s Galileo

It was exciting to be in Paris during the COP talks on Climate. There was an unprecedented united movement of scientists, civil society, progressive business leaders, investors, and activists representing social and ecological interests from around the world, all demanding our political leaders put the common good ahead of national interests and actually lead. Soon we will know the results.…
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  • John Fullerton·
  • December 11, 2015 9:55 pm·
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