An accessible timely and fascinating account of the revolution going on in the world of finance - and how accountants really can save the planet. Climate change is here and capitalism is implicated: it's programmed to privilege profit and growth over human communities and the living earth. Six Capitals charts the rise of four movements designed to overthrow capitalism as we know it: multi-capital accounting, for society, nature and profit; the push for a new corporation legally bound to benefit nature and society while making a profit.
There's a potent message in the mural of Indigenous AFL legend Adam Goodes that appeared – as big as a two-storey house – on an inner-Sydney building on Thursday. Amid the global Black Lives Matter protests, and the tearing down of statues of once-feted slave-traders and racists, here was the making of a monument to a black hero. A living Australian hero.https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/build-monuments-to-black-heroes-and-here-s-a-goodes-start-20200612-p551vv.html
This image has been created using old buttons the size and design rarely seen any more except on expensive designer clothes. These buttons come from a time when the button had a functional as well as decorate role. Functional buttons with buttonholes for fastening or closing clothes appeared first in Germany in the 13th century. Many of the buttons used in this image are bakelite. Bakelite was the first completely synthetic plastic invented in 1904 by Leo Baekeland, and was used for making buttons from the 1920s.
