Two of our writers here at Futuristics [ed: the blog these old posts came from] have had opinion pieces published recently in Victoria’s Age newspaper. Josh Floyd today draws an adroit and principle based line to argue for a social morality foundation to developing Australia’s carbon trading system, while Stephen McGrail (following up January, February and April opinion pieces) leveraged comments made by Dalai Lama in his recent visit to explore the implications of ‘enlightened self-interest’ for business strategies appropriate to the 21st Century.

Both articles are worth noting for the progressive yet pragmatic approach they take to address the complexity of responding to humanity’s sustainability challenge. From my vantage point, albeit a biased one for several reasons, it’s great to see the fruits of Swinburne’s strategic foresight program beginning to be more publicly displayed. Whether it’s the course or the people it attracts, or a combination of both, there’s hope in them there hills;)