Jae Mather's Role

Jae Mather is Sustainability Co-ordinator and Evaluator with the Pines Calyx Trust
He has over ten years of practical experience in guiding commercial organisations towards a low carbon economy.
Pines Calyx is a green business, and therefore experiences the kind of conflict of interest that is now common.
Where many buildings require huge amounts of energy in their construction and use, Pines Calyx is carbon-negative.
Where this process usually means the release of CO2, Pines Calyx will continue to absorb it from the air.
How much of this approach is a genuine contribution to global warming, and how much is it 'greenwash'?
Many companies want to work within the economic system, yet make a more positive connection to the eco-system.
Could metadesign practices help to bring these two imperatives together, rather than supporting 'greenwashing'?
For many specialist designers, part of the problem is that economic pressures force decisions that are harmful.
But the word 'ecology' derived from the same idea as 'economy'. Both deal with the management of finite resources.
Living organisms exchange resources in order to distribute benefits for all. Money circulation has a similar purpose.
Without the exchange of Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen in sunlight, photosynthesis would not work, and we would all die.
What ecological order of economic thinking would be useful to metadesigners? Jae may have some good answers/questions.

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