Bellah’s Durkheim: A fruitful reinvention?

A fruitful and gratifying collaboration.

Fruitful insights

leeches and earthworms. It is not yet clear just how many of these are new discoveries, though the number is in the hundreds, but it is estimated that anywhere from one to nine million ocean species remain to be found, making this haul just the tip of the iceberg. The divers also placed little structures they refer to as doll's houses, but more formally known as Autonomous Reef Monitoring Syste...

The reinvention of religion

In 1991 Richard Tarnas ended his The Passion of the Western Mind with an essentially hopeful assessment of the point that humanity had reached after an extraordinary wandering during three millennia of culture. In the Epilogue, he recalled how the three successive revolutions of Copernicus, Descartes and Kant had left us with the knowledge that “there are no perspective‐ independent facts” and ...

Reinvention for sustainability

Reinvention of forgotten technologies has a role to play in the introduction of new technologies, as around 1% of reported inventions are reinventions. At the current time the process by which reinvention occurs is random, relying on erendipity rather than through directed activities. Earlier work with a proprietary research archive demonstrates that reinventions can be successfully and efficie...

Fruitful design: the CDM

As the famous Rolling Stone’s song goes: “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, well you might find, you get what you need”. What we want, and what we need are sometimes quite different things. In some ways, this may epitomize the United Nations’ Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a market based mechanism that creates a way for developed countries and companies to offset...