Re-Wilding the Organisation

Largest pottery kiln in Yorkshire becoming history.

Amid the circus that is COP26, I'm beginning to notice small shoots of hope and optimism - not from the good and the great strutting their stuff, but in what is happening at the edges.

At the heart of it is the idea of "currency".  Investopedia defines it thus; 

"Currency is a medium of exchange for goods and services. In short, it's money, in the form of paper or coins, usually issued by a government and generally accepted at its face value as a method of payment."

Maybe, not so much. Two hundred years of economic growth has conflated money with the medium of exchange, and it is that which I see being called into question. 

Right now, just a few small things. Last night on Newsnight, leaden corporate "communications" spokespeople and politicians looking confused as they were politely but comprehensively outperformed by a young climate activist who not only knew her subject but radiated conviction and joy as she talked about it. People wh…