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Clean agriculture is possible
Farming is an industry full of contradictions: The reasons for all these contradictions have to do with how financial resources are allocated, both by policy incentives and by markets. Farmers and the local economies of farming communities tend not to be priorities for public policy or for financial or commodity… Keep reading ⇢
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Earth observation & weather services are preconditions for prosperity
Beware the corporate or political interest that tells you any country, region, city, or industry would be better off with defunded and debilitated Earth observation satellite services or reduced staffing of weather services. While extreme weather events and natural disasters have become more frequent, severe, and costly, loss of life… Keep reading ⇢
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Multidimensional value-creation insights are coming
Much ink and light has been spilled over the backlash against ESG (which is shorthand for standards and ratings that measure performance on environmental, social, and governance value-building). Political campaigns have been fought over the idea that somehow having access to this information limits our freedom. Of course, the opposite is true:… Keep reading ⇢
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What is going on with artificial intelligence?
Since late 2022, when Chat GPT opened to the general public, we have seen a proliferation of new web-based services using ‘generative artificial intelligence’ (gen AI) to provide text summaries, synthetic images, draft emails, and live meeting notes, among other things. Gen AI interests have seen some of the all-time… Keep reading ⇢
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Local resilience is a geophysical & financial imperative
The geophysical security of local communities is less certain in our age of deep climate disruption. This growing uncertainty points to an increasingly certain need: More work, more investment, more resources, are required to reduce risk, establish and maintain infrastructure, and provide meaningful crisis response. The most important resilience insight… Keep reading ⇢
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Striving for a world that works
The aim of the Active Value Trust Rating (Activv.net) system is to support all who wish to shape a better future with the actionable insights needed to make that future more likely. Hidden costs—which are not built into the price or a good, service, or financial instrument, or which come… Keep reading ⇢
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Active Value: trust ratings to support a better future for all
The Active Value Trust Rating system (Activv) is intended to serve as the consumer-side equivalent of the credit rating system banks use to judge whether a person should have access to financial services, and at what cost. Banks, investment managers, securities, and commodities, are already rated for credit-worthiness by ratings… Keep reading ⇢
