September 8, 2011 Environmental toxins are more complex than any busy person can be expected to follow. Even biological specialists unable to grasp the scope of these risks tend to issue messages that are contradictory generalizations from limited observations. That’s one form of the reductionist thinking plaguing the modern world because all of us have […]
January 12, 2011 A small group of Compression Thinkers met last weekend. We decided to form the Compression Institute to make the ideas more operational. This thumbnail version of Compression Thinking came from that meeting. Vision: Assure survival and well being using self-learning systems. Mission: Build systems and processes that work to perfection. No excess […]
December 2, 2010 Dealing with Compression is a wooly undertaking. Just contemplating so many new factors in making decisions taxes any individual’s intellectual comprehension beyond its limit, and emotional strain may be more draining. To make it humanly possible to handle this complexity, we must develop highly versatile, vigorous learning organizations, each dedicated to a […]
November 16, 2010 Global Compression is necessary to globally reduce the consumption of resources. But from a conventional business and economic view, Compression’s operational goal is unimaginable: By 2040 globally develop a quality of life somewhat like industrial societies today, but using less than half the virgin raw material and less than half the energy […]
November 3, 2010 The world is full of environmental movements. Some like the World Wildlife Federation, Worldwatch Institute, and The Rocky Mountain Institute are well established, each in its way undertaking “doable” projects to better the environment. Activist movements like State of the World Forum and 350.org keep political pots stirred. More such organizations than […]
Objectives Statement: By 2040 globally improve quality of life to an industrial society equivalent using no more than half the energy and half the virgin raw materials as in the year 2000, while reducing known toxic releases to zero. Please reflect carefully on this statement. Objectives are global. Translating them to any part of the […]
