Having spent over an year in developing water security, fences against grazing cattle, road access to the site, a room to stowaway tools and a basic shelter for overnight stops, the time has come at last to begin planting. Ahead of answering ‘what’ to plant, I cooked up a strategy in answer to ‘how’ to plant. Some basic rules emerged. …

Even if you are not an environmentalist, it pays to be attentive to natural resources because they can affect your wallet and well-being. Modern economies depend on growth but they can be stumped when sustainability of natural systems is ignored. I may have waxed a little lyrical when I declared that at pointReturn, I proposed to show how to treat Nature as a capitalist. Now it’s reassuring to have Willem Buiter a professor of London School of Economics reinforce my views …read on

It’s not Microsoft knockoffs I am talking about. This is a speculation on how one might translate the Open Source concept to physical objects - in this case office space - OSO. As this is one of the activity ideas for pointReturn to explore, it will be laid out here with reference to implementing it at pointReturn in the future. …read on