With the official opening of the new Harry Potter Theme Park here in the UK earlier in the month, we at PAULEY started thinking about how an estimated $15 billion revenue stream generated by the Harry Potter brand might work harder within a different social context.
With seven books,...
(24) Comments | Posted 23 March 2012 | 23:00
According to latest predictions by the UN, by 2050, two-thirds of the world population will live in cities. By then, the world's population will have risen by 30% to 9 billion. India and China's already colossal populations will be joined by an explosion of child bearing throughout sub-saharan Africa and...
(6) Comments | Posted 15 February 2012 | 11:51
Spiralling resource costs, flooding, civil unrest, threats to biodiversity, rises in environmental refugees and even all-out war - the implications of our unsustainable lifestyles are grim to say the least.
These are just some of the effects we are almost certain to experience over the next...
(0) Comments | Posted 26 January 2012 | 10:36
It's ironic and symbolic of our times that an area of the world now appallingly wealthy thanks to being stocked to the eyeballs with oil is now under threat from the unsustainable impact of its trade in the black gold.
A rise in sea levels of 1m will put 1,155km2...
(1) Comments | Posted 21 December 2011 | 23:00
If you're moaning about the weather or the economy this Christmas, don't! We had it easy in the UK during 2011. This year will go down in history as one expensive and lengthy meteorological and environmental disaster. It added to the 13 hottest years on record, all of which have...
(0) Comments | Posted 1 December 2011 | 14:11
It's the People's Politics, stupid - For the road to contain climate change, just follow the Olympic Torch!
Just imagine, you've taken a snapshot of the world population and put 100 people in a giant plastic dome for a year or two to see how they get on....
(0) Comments | Posted 22 November 2011 | 13:02
Top execs on 169 times the average national wage and bankers who see their only duty as to satisfy their stakeholder's financial bloodlust. Leaders within society are in the middle of an identity crisis. The 'Occupy' protestors may be trying to take over Wall Street but it's only because the...
(3) Comments | Posted 8 November 2011 | 22:00
Following my last blog, we took a quick look at Planet Earth Plc's performance over the last two millennia (or so), and found the results were a little disappointing in Q4.
Now, if I were an (alien) investor, looking to invest in Planet Earth Plc, I'd need...
(0) Comments | Posted 1 November 2011 | 22:00
The design team at Planet Earth Plc gathered this weekend to launch the 7,000,000,000th new product in its 4.5 billion year history of innovative designs for its enduringly popular Homo Sapiens range.
To impressed gasps from the assembled onlookers at the launch event, the latest Homo Sapiens model was announced...
(6) Comments | Posted 16 April 2012 | 00:00