Sustainability

Davos 23: Did the WEF coordinate a permacrisis response?

By Adam Tinworth

This year’s World Economic Forum was a subdued affair, just at the time we needed a cheerleader for global cooperation in the face of mounting threats.
After COP27: how corporates can fight the climate crisis

By Adam Tinworth

When governments aren’t willing to take the big steps needed, it’s up to business to make the systemic impact we all need.
COP27: a failure of systems thinking

By Adam Tinworth

Why the negativity about the latest climate crisis conference? The delegates allowed systemic problems to distract them from the big systems changes we urgently need.
COP27 and the case for optimism

By Martin Recke

While COP27 deals with the challenges of climate change, there is room for optimism: the technology has reached a tipping point.
Francesca Bria: How Data May Help Cities to Become More Democratic and Sustainable

The Covid-19 crisis has accentuated some of the most pressing urban challenges. What role can technological humanism play here?
Liveblog: Francesca Bria on How Data May Help Cities to Become More Democratic and Sustainable

By Adam Tinworth

We need to rework our urban systems if we are to survive the climate crisis. And, as Francesca Bria explains, ethical use of data could be our greatest weapon…
Cities are systems: data makes them better

By Adam Tinworth

The urban infrastrcuture is the most complex system most of us encounter on a daily basis. In a world rocked by crises, we need to understand these systems better.
Protopia now: Monika Bielskyte on designing better futures for humanity

By Adam Tinworth

Beyond flawed utopias and damaging dystopias, lie more positive, inclusive and radical visions: protopias. The NEXT Show explores how to build better systems for living.
Monika Bielskyte: A new vision of our future

When imagining our shared future, utopia and dystopia often pop us as the only two visions. Why are we stuck…
Christopher Mims: building supply chains for a sustainable future

By Adam Tinworth

Supply chains are invisible - until they stop working. The NEXT–Show interview with the author of Arriving Now explored how they might reshape our business future.
Christopher Mims: The future of global supply chains

When ordering a product online for home delivery, customers often just think about what happens during the “last mile”. But…
The systemic paradox

By Martin Recke

Despite stress and shocks, systems appear remarkably resilient. It’s the paradox of systemic evolution: change to ensure continuity.
Another systemic shock

By Martin Recke

We can't go back to normalcy. Two years into a global pandemic, the war in Ukraine is another systemic shock with massive consequences.
Welcome to the new age of scarcity

By Adam Tinworth

The age of abundance is over. As supply chains bend and break, and energy prices soar, your business needs to re-engineer its systems to thrive amid scarcity.
Why high energy prices means no beer

By Adam Tinworth

If you love beer and sausages, you should be worrying about supply chains. Because the systems that supply our food (and drink) are more complex than you might expect…
Amazon, the pioneer of horizontal and vertical integration

By Martin Recke

Amazon has pioneered a dual strategy of both horizontal and vertical integration. The next Amazon will need a different approach.
COP26: An urgent need for systemic climate thinking

By Adam Tinworth

Our leaders are struggling to put the climate ahead of political expediency. But climate is a global system — and needs systemic solutions.
COP26: the shape of sustainable business emerges

By Adam Tinworth

The first agreements from the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow suggest the sustainability carrot of incentives will soon be replaced by the legal stick.
The biggest investment opportunity in history

By Martin Recke

Climate change is a big challenge, but it comes with a huge investment opportunity. It's still the early days.
We need to design ecosystems

By Martin Recke

When everything is interconnected, ecosystem design is becoming crucial. The network as dominant paradigm is replaced by the ecosystem.
Why our crises are interconnected

By Martin Recke

We've connected everything together, only to be surprised that our crises are now also interconnected. We cannot treat them as single, separate issues.
The supply shock, its cause, and the shift to sustainability

By Matthias Schrader

The chip crisis is the first climate disaster-related shortage on a civilization-wide, global scale. But it's just the tip of a massive supply shock wave.
Spinning up the Circular Economy

By Adam Tinworth

The climate crisis, spiralling energy prices and struggling supply chains all make it clear: we need to forge a circular economy — and fast.

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