We need to be smarter about AI
Artificial intelligence is everywhere, and it happened fast. For those of us who remember the days of the COVID pandemic, not long ago, AI was virtually nonexistent. In the last four years, hundreds of billions of dollars have been poured into development of AI…
Keep readingIncome inequality is a climate challenge
Societies in which a greater number of people have access to incomes that allow for stable middle-class economic experiences are better able to routinely invest in world-leading innovation. The reason is simple: The more places across an economy where regular revenues can flow from,…
Keep readingResilience Intelligence as a foundation for future wellbeing
The Resilience Intel Charter was released during an event in San Francisco, on September 12, 2018, during the Global Climate Action Summit. Its purpose was to establish foundational guidelines for a diverse, decentralized, global effort to develop actionable insights for reducing climate-related risk and supporting…
Keep readingEarth system data will shape markets
Nearly all areas of human activity are lacking adequate embedded desision-related insights about the health and stability of Earth system functions, relative to products, services, and living conditions. This creates risks, operational inefficiencies, and costs, that race through whole economies and undermine human security…
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Assessing the balance of hidden costs & co-benefits
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…
Moon mission for all humanity
On Thursday, the crew of the Artemis II mission executed a maneuver called the Translunar Injection burn. The TLI burn reoriented their Orion spacecraft, called Integrity, and added sufficient thrust to push them out of Earth orbit, on course for the Moon. They are the first human beings to leave Earth orbit since 1972. This is, in a…
