Philosophical frameworks for sustainable thinking
There's a thought experiment that keeps me up at night, and I've been running it for a few years now. Picture a tourism cooperative in Umbria, a small cluster of family-run agriturismi in the hills above Todi. They've agreed, informally, to cap visitor numbers, share referrals,...
Something happened between 2021 and 2023 that economists didn't fully anticipate and that HR consultants still haven't properly explained. Roughly 47 million Americans quit their jobs in 2021 alone. Not because they found better-paying work. Not because they were retiring. Many...
Here's something I find genuinely strange about this moment in corporate sustainability: the same companies now deploying AI to improve their ESG reporting are, in many cases, the same ones that spent the previous decade producing ESG reports that didn't reflect their actual...
Why balancing stakeholder interests assumes a separation that structural tourism design can eliminate entirely.
A structural framework where removing community benefits causes mechanical business failure, not certification loss.