Lighthouse Keeper Edition 22

Lighthouse Keeper Edition 22

Cracks letting the light get in … collapse acknowledgement … scaling ‘out’ … glimpses of hope … Sunday Thoughts Edition 22 | November 2023 Ring the bells that still can ring – Forget your perfect offering – There is a crack, a crack...
Lighthouse Keeper Edition 21

Lighthouse Keeper Edition 21

10 Years of r3.0 Conferences – Trigger Points for Activating Necessary Transformation – How to Activate Restorative Norms? Edition 21 | August 2023 You may call this a ‘special edition’ of the Lighthouse Keeper, devoted to a flashback to 9 earlier and a...
Lighthouse Keeper Edition 20

Lighthouse Keeper Edition 20

The Implosion of Mainstream Sustainability Reporting … Sustainability that the World Needs … Activating Social Norms … Sunday Thoughts Edition 20 | June 2023 With this newsletter I am embarking on slightly more focused editions of the Lighthouse...
Lighthouse Keeper Edition 19

Lighthouse Keeper Edition 19

The ‘Public Comment Sham’ of (Sustainability) Reporting Standard Setters … Consultancy Caricatures … 2 Years Corona Chronicles … Sunday Thoughts Edition 19 | May 2023 Welcome back to another edition of the Lighthouse Keeper. At r3.0 we are busy bees,...
Lighthouse Keeper Edition 18

Lighthouse Keeper Edition 18

SVB & Climate Breakdown – seeing the connection … #ESGLalLaland in turmoil … a ‘GRI is dead’ epilogue … Sunday Thoughts Edition 18 | March 2023 There are two news topics that made up most of the newspaper headlines in the last 2 weeks: the #SVB bankruptcy (plus...
Lighthouse Keeper Edition 17

Lighthouse Keeper Edition 17

Goodbye to the GRI I once knew … UNSDPI Training … Collapsology … r3.0 2023 Conference …Sunday Thoughts   Edition 17 | February 2023 The Lighthouse Keeper is back, and it took a while. First, I took break from all the whirlwind in #ESGLaLaLand, and the huge...
Lighthouse Keeper Edition 16

Lighthouse Keeper Edition 16

Authentic Sustainability Reporting is here … ‘Pure ESG’ further ridicules itself … Collapse is not Apocalypse … Sunday Thoughts   Edition 16 | November 2022 I started the writing of this new Lighthouse Keeper on the day of the release of the UNRISD SDPI...
Lighthouse Keeper Edition 15

Lighthouse Keeper Edition 15

ESG Mirage … Brutal Honesty … Funding Governance for Systemic Transformation … Organising a free conference … Sunday Thoughts   Edition 15 | September 2022 This Lighthouse Keeper comes to you one day before the start of the 9th International r3.0 Conference,...
Lighthouse Keeper Edition 14

Lighthouse Keeper Edition 14

Collapse Awareness … ‘Pure ESG’​ Standards … UNRISD To The Rescue … Anti-Woke ESG … Turmoil In #ESGLaLaLand … More Sunday Thoughts Edition 14 | July 2022 A good three months without a Lighthouse Keeper. Various times I thought that now would be the...
Lighthouse Keeper Edition 13

Lighthouse Keeper Edition 13

From ESG to ‘True Sustainability’ in Oslo … Do sustainability standard setters have a moral obligation to deliver sustainability? +++ April 2022 | Edition 13 I am back at home after an exciting trip to Oslo, where I keynoted and added opinions to two workshops at the...
Lighthouse Keeper Edition 12

Lighthouse Keeper Edition 12

From an era of change to a change of era – The role of ESG and Sustainability in times of rapid and brutal disruption Edition 12 | March 2022 (Special Edition) The sh*t hits the fan… The Climate Crisis, Corona, now the #PutinWarAgainstUkraine. Why is it that we...
Lighthouse Keeper Edition 11

Lighthouse Keeper Edition 11

How on Earth? … #ESGLalaland Obfuscation … Third Way Solutions     Edition 11 | February 2022 Another chock-full Lighthouse Keeper at a day after Europe went into deep shock as Russia declared war on Ukraine! Quite hard to focus attention on anything else, but...
Lighthouse Keeper Edition 10

Lighthouse Keeper Edition 10

Don’t Look Up … The Big EU Taxonomy Betrayal … ’Fink’enstein’s Letter … Transcending Incrementalism … Remembering Lost Giants     Edition 1 | January 2022 What a month this has been since we celebrated the start of the next solar cycle of Gaia! There was ‘Don’t Look...
Lighthouse Keeper Edition 9

Lighthouse Keeper Edition 9

Investor Sustainability or Human-Planetary Regeneration – ESG LaLaLand at the crossroads! A Year-End Reflection     Edition 9 | December 2021 As 2021 comes to a close and we look at the precursors of 2022, a big question starts to present itself: as we are...
Lighthouse Keeper Edition 8

Lighthouse Keeper Edition 8

The Technological, Financial, Political Pipe Dream called COP 26 … A Retrospect November 2021 | Edition 8 So, COP 26 is over, and while incremental steps are sold as successes (‘never before we had’ … blahblahblah, ‘so far we didn’t...
Lighthouse Keeper Edition 7

Lighthouse Keeper Edition 7

FLOP 26 … why Net Zero as used and abused is a sham … and why Glasgow can’t deliver what’s ‘necessary’     November 2021 | Edition 7 | COP 26 is just around the corner, the biggest assembly of governmental delegations, lobbyists, NGOs, activist groups, and not to...
Lighthouse Keeper Edition 6

Lighthouse Keeper Edition 6

ESG LaLa Land is burning – how to leave and where to go!   As many of you return from vacation and scroll through inboxes and social media, one is amazed of the dynamics of the last months. A lot has to do with the climate and political events of this summer....