Can we innovate out of the climate crisis?

Scientists have been ringing climate change alarms for decades. The situation is dire, but it’s not hopeless.

Post-carbon Pathfinders guides innovative businesses who are building a more sustainable world. We consult on marketing strategies, brand positioning & innovation.

Burning fossil fuels is unsustainable, and we don’t have time to waste

Every innovator focused on the shift to a post-carbon economy needs to think about it like their life (or at least the life of their children) depends on it. 

By IPCC estimates, we have ten years left to sharply reverse the global growth in carbon emissions, or we face the probability of a run-away future.

Specialism wins, especially in times of uncertainty

Our consultancy supports sustainable innovators, like you, through all stages of business growth.

We are vertically-specialised and understand your challenges with raising investment, branding, positioning and overall strategy.

“aut mori conatur succedant”

We’ll do it or die trying.

Have you looked at it from this angle?

The Embedded Consensus

Sometimes before learning can arrive, unlearning needs to happen. What often makes this hard is that ideas (regardless of their present merit) become materialized in structures that conceal their original form as abstractions.

Read More

Kicks and Shifts

Here’s a metaphor for an almost-impossible task. Think of a massive boulder that is not perfectly spherical, situated on ground that is not perfectly flat. While the boulder is generally impossible for a person to move, still, if you stand in just the right place, and push on just the right spot, you can get the boulder rolling.

Read More

Decommodification Economics

An avocado is just an avocado, until it is raised without pesticides. Then it is worth more.

Beef is just beef, until it is raised without antibiotics. Then it’s worth more.

Principle number one: Take out something harmful.

Read More