Trees are engaged in countless complex cycles and they constantly struggle for water, light and their own survival. This struggle has led to some astonishing abilities: trees communicate with one another, give each other assistance, collaborate with fungi and other creatures, have memories and have even developed their own version of the internet! Genres Nature, …
Environment
Stakeholders increasingly demand that businesses make meaningful contributions to the improvement of the world. As consultant and professor John A. Davis explains, managing for meaning is harder than managing for spreadsheets. In Radical Business, He provides an encouraging analysis of today’s radically new business leadership requirements. Drawing on research and his experience as a business …
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels (2015) argues that the values we hold most dear stem from one fundamental source: energy. While anthropologists have spent centuries attempting to understand differences between cultures, few have attempted to explain those differences. These summaries do just that. Introduction: Investigate the source of our most fundamental values. Where do our …
How the World Really Works (2022) tackles a paradox at the heart of the modern world: we’ve never had so much information at our fingertips and never known so little about how things actually work. Of course, we can’t be experts in everything. But, Vaclav Smil argues, it’s our duty as citizens to be informed …
