Land as Insurance, Part 3: The Role of Farms

By Rob Avis, Verge Permaculture

Imagine if there was a corporation or co-operative that you could own shares in. The purpose of this corporation would be to hedge against certain classes of black swans.

Land as Insurance Part 2: The Black Swan Theory

By Rob Avis, Verge Permaculture

When a system contains extreme outliers that are hundreds, thousands, or millions of times further from the mean than expected, they can cause massive amounts of destruction and change the course of history.

Living in Unpredictable Times

By Brian Davey, Feasta

Economists make forecasts about what is going to happen in the world of that great God – money.