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2013-01-29 03:12:10 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

I became a Chartered Accountant about 50 years ago, and believed that the field of management accountancy was a powerful driver for good. Sadly, many years later I realized that many in political and business leadership expected accountants to hide things more than they wanted accountants to make things transparent. This had a very negative impact on my career, but not on my ongoing commitment to the need for transparency.

But transparency is not enough. There also needs to be massive reform of the whole framework of metrics being used to assess the state, progress and performance of society. My initiative in this regard is something I call TrueValueMetrics Value Accountancy which uses many of the concept of money profit accountancy, but expands the framework so that the impact of economic activity on people and planet is not ignored as it is with the prevailing money based profit accountancy and... more »

2012-12-19 22:31:54 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

I am not sure I should be allowed into this community. For maybe 25 years I have equated 'rule of law' with the legalization of obscene behavior by rich and powerful interests whether in the United States or around the world. I knew something was wrong when I was asked in a country that shall remain nameless 'What to you want the law to be?' As long as I can remember it seems that laws had the structure of Swiss Cheese ... all sorts of loopholes that made the purpose of the law inconsequential. My first experience of this perhaps was the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and I am sure others have had similar experiences. I would love to know more about the rules and regulations that apply to banks, and the activities of banks that choose to ignore the rules because you can make more money profit that way, even if you have to pay small fines ($ billions but still small) once in every 20 years or... more »

2012-12-09 06:49:49 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Dear Colleagues
One of the reasons why fossil deposits are able to be converted into useful fuels of our modern economy at really very low prices, and be money profitable is because the full cost of a fossil fuel is never brought into account. There is an implicit assumption that the fossil is not used in the process and is therefore not costed. Licences, exploration, development, transportation, refining, distribution, taxes are all part of the costs, but the actual consumption of the fossil is ignored. 

Add in the replacement cost of the fossil and the profit and the economics changes. This does not happen with money profit GAAP accounting, but it would happen with TrueValueMetrics. 

I believe with some passion that when you measure the right things, you get the right results. In the energy sector we need to start measuring the right things.

2012-12-07 16:13:26 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Double entry money accounting was invented almost 500 years ago in the days of sailing ships and merchant adventurers. The market economy is something Adam Smith wrote about and published in 1776. GDP was invented in haste in the 1930s as a stop-gap metric in the Great Depression. Seems to me it is time for some modernization of the metrics being used for business and the economy, including the area of social enterprise. My proposal is something I call TrueValueMetrics

2012-12-07 16:11:38 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Double entry money accounting was invented almost 500 years ago in the days of sailing ships and merchant adventurers. The market economy is something Adam Smith wrote about and published in 1776. GDP was invented in haste in the 1930s as a stop-gap metric in the Great Depression. Seems to me it is time for some modernization of the metrics being used for business and the economy, including the area of social enterprise. My proposal is something I call TrueValueMetrics

2011-10-29 03:56:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I have wanted to look at the files of various branch banks on the Community Reinvestment Act ... and not surprisingly the bankers have not made it easy. This is interesting and a matter of great concern

2011-10-28 01:33:41 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Wow. I don't know what to say in response. :)

2011-10-27 17:21:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

My close friend posted this on Facebook:

"I kept helicopters in the air in Iraq (for over a year of my life, in my youth) for Casualty Evacuations that needed to happen in Iraq -- NOT in the United States.

"I'm literally shaking right now. I'm beyond pissed at what unfolded in Oakland, and what will continue to unfold in all of your favorite cities if this doesn't get the attention it deserves.

"This shit is happening in your back yard right now, and these people are protesting things that you're too lazy to do anything about.

"Whether you agree with OWS or not, the situation in this country is BEGGING for you to pay attention to it. It needs your research. It needs your voice.

"Open your eyes and narrate your own world. Stop letting people narrate it for you."

http://i.imgur.com/yGfyU.jpg

2011-10-23 16:24:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

An animated version of a Lytro light field picture of technology journalist Walt Mossberg (all light field pictures have parallax information). I took this picture while on stage doing a tech demo at AsiaD in Hong Kong. Oct 20, 2011.

Special thanks to the master of animated GIFs, +Dunken K Bliths, for tips on how to embed successfully.

2011-10-21 16:37:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

These images are beautiful and useful. Interesting the have some understanding of what happens in the real physical world

2011-10-17 23:10:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

This image confirms my observation that US economy went into reverse in the 1980s

2011-10-11 04:15:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I am glad the 'Occupy' movement is spreading into a lot of different communities. Eventually it is quality of life in all of our communities that matters.

2011-10-10 12:51:07 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

This goes back to May 2011, but another good reason for the #OccupyWallStreet movement to be suipported

2011-10-10 03:18:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The pol currently shows Yes these folks are right ... not what Fox was looking for!

2011-10-09 18:00:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This is a must read for anyone who has any interest whatsoever in a world beyond the failed capitalist market economy and its singular focus on profit, GDP growth and more and more waste!

2011-10-09 17:14:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

This video of a massive rocket blasting off from Earth is incredible.

The really amazing footage (where the rocket takes off) starts around 2:15 — the first couple of minutes focus primarily on the setup.

2011-10-08 01:39:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I am really bothered by the 'rule of law' that is embraced today in the USA after the Bush-Cheney-et-al embrace of anything goes in the 'War on Terror'. The founding fathers would be appalled!

2011-09-25 15:10:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Just quit on Google Chrome because the printing function does not work. Back to Mozilla and such a pleasure to be able to print efficiently. Google may be a great innovator, but its ability to do the basic of printing is the pits!

2011-09-22 15:08:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

These plans are fundamentally unsustainable because goal is money profit when it should be efficient satisfaction of needs

2011-09-22 14:13:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I knew this was going to happen...

2011-09-11 23:52:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Just found this ... and it looks worth reading carefully. Where is there any sense of ethical balance?

2011-09-11 14:03:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The 9/11 remembrance is poignant, but let us not forget those that keep getting killed and maimed round the world because of hate and terrorist actions.

2011-09-10 12:57:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Corruption is profitable, and when profit is the main measure of success is going to be a big driver of economic decisions and trends! Obscene!