Biodiversity Offsets: Can Destroying Nature Here Be Compensated by Restoring It There?
Offsets promise ecological balance sheets, but biodiversity doesn't trade in fungible units.
The Commons: Alternative Property Regimes for Managing Shared Resources
Elinor Ostrom proved communities can govern shared resources for centuries—rewriting the rules of economic system design
Climate Debt and Loss and Damage: The Economics of Historical Emissions Responsibility
How historical emissions create present obligations—and why the frameworks for calculating climate debt shape everything that follows.
Industrial Symbiosis: When One Company's Waste Becomes Another's Resource
Designing industrial ecosystems where waste becomes feedstock and closed-loop production replaces linear extraction
TNFD and Corporate Biodiversity Disclosure: Making Nature Risks Visible to Markets
How standardized biodiversity disclosure frameworks create market infrastructure for pricing and responding to nature-related financial risk
Environmental Kuznets Curve: The Myth of Growing Rich Enough to Clean Up
Why getting richer doesn't automatically fix the environmental problems that matter most
The Doughnut Economy: A Framework for Thriving Within Planetary Boundaries
How cities and businesses are using doughnut economics to redesign prosperity within ecological limits
Product-Service Systems: Why Selling Access Instead of Ownership Changes Everything
When manufacturers keep ownership, durability becomes profitable—restructuring the incentive architecture of industrial production.
True Cost Accounting: Making Hidden Environmental and Social Costs Visible
The economy's hidden subsidies from nature and society are becoming visible—and that visibility will reshape every economic decision.
The Rebound Effect: Why Efficiency Gains Often Increase Rather Than Decrease Resource Use
Efficiency improvements don't subtract from resource use—they lower prices and stimulate demand, often consuming their own savings.
Ecosystem Services: The Economic Framework That Changed Environmental Policy
How translating nature into economic terms reshaped environmental governance—and what that translation cannot capture
Payments for Ecosystem Services: When Markets Can and Cannot Protect Nature
Market-based conservation succeeds under specific conditions—knowing when those conditions exist separates effective programs from expensive failures.
Carbon Pricing's Dirty Secret: Why Market Mechanisms Alone Cannot Solve Climate Change
Why three decades of carbon markets have failed to deliver transformation—and what integrated policy architectures can actually achieve
The Steady-State Economy: How Economies Can Thrive Without Growing
Engineering prosperity within planetary boundaries through institutional redesign of the mechanisms that make perpetual growth appear necessary.
Degrowth Is Not Recession: Understanding Planned Economic Contraction
Why intentional economic contraction differs fundamentally from recession—and why that distinction determines whether we face collapse or transformation
Why GDP Growth Destroys the Planet: Designing Metrics That Actually Measure Prosperity
Traditional economic metrics reward planetary destruction—natural capital accounting reveals the path to measuring genuine prosperity.
Natural Capital Balance Sheets: Making Ecological Assets Visible to Economic Decision-Makers
Transform invisible ecological assets into strategic intelligence by integrating natural capital accounts into corporate balance sheets and investment decisions.
Environmental Justice and Economic Design: Why Sustainability Fails Without Equity
Sustainability without equity simply redistributes environmental harm—true regeneration requires economic systems designed to expand benefits to those who have borne the greatest burdens.
Biodiversity as Economic Infrastructure: Valuing What Markets Currently Ignore
How species interactions and ecosystem complexity underpin economic stability—and why their destruction represents unhedgeable systematic risk to global markets
The Circular Economy's Missing Piece: Why Material Loops Fail Without System Redesign
Material loops fail not from insufficient recycling but from linear system architecture—true circularity requires redesigning how products, business models, and policy interact from inception.