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61) Translocal Intermediaries Renew Our History of Trade. The fifth and final installment of the Sequence of the Seashells series. Proposes three concrete intermediary categories — data custody and verification, ecological storage and distribution, and community clearing and accounting — as the infrastructure through which Global South communities can govern their own environmental data, invoking Polynesian voyaging governance and the death of Captain Cook as material evidence that sophisticated translocal compliance systems predate and exceed anything Geneva or Washington has to offer. 04/2026 https://www.intemerate.earth/translocal-intermediaries-renew-our-history-of-trade/
60) Behold! The World Data Organization. The fourth installment of the Sequence of the Seashells series. Examines the inauguration of China’s World Data Organization in Beijing in March 2026 as a fault line in the previously seamless surface of OECD-governed global data compliance, and argues that while the WDO is not a decolonial institution, it opens institutional terrain where community-verified, FPIC-embedded data governance can claim legitimacy outside Western accreditation monopolies. 04/2026 https://www.intemerate.earth/behold-the-world-data-organization/
59) The In-Between Space is a Caravanserai. The third installment of the Sequence of the Seashells series. Recovers the caravanserai as a model for translocal data markets — a commons-based intermediary infrastructure grounded in Ibn Khaldun’s asabiyyah, drawing on historical Silk Road trade to argue that restoring reciprocal obligation at the infrastructural level is the antidote to the extractive pipeline model. 04/2026 https://www.intemerate.earth/the-in-between-space-is-a-caravanserai/
58) The Crusoe Economy. The second installment of the Sequence of the Seashells series. Draws on Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Karl Popper to challenge the insularity myth embedded in Western economic imagination, arguing that our economy has always been one of supply chains, exchange, and division of labor — and that the Crusoe model is a colonial fiction that cannibalizes the markets it claims to civilize. 04/2026 https://www.intemerate.earth/who-wants-a-crusoe-economy/
57) What is Data and Intermediary Data Markets? The first installment of the Sequence of the Seashells series. Argues that data is neither simply a resource nor a pipeline, but a commons governed by reciprocity, and that local intermediaries — not platforms — are the infrastructure through which communities can reclaim authority over their own ecological and social data. 04/2026 https://www.intemerate.earth/what-is-data-and-intermediary-data-markets/
56) How Accounting for War Became an Economic Tool: The SNA Military Assets Debate. What a technical argument among statisticians from 2003 to 2015 reveals about who gets to count, what gets capitalized, and why Decolonial Accounting is a method towards peace.
https://www.intemerate.earth/how-accounting-for-war-became-an-economic-tool-the-sna-military-assets-debate/
55) Black Paper: SDG-SNA-SEEA Harmonization. Deep textual dive into the technical architecture that is becoming formalized, advancing that analytic units do not promote “harmonization” treaties or agreements. We need to advocate for informal sequences of local guidelines in order to ensure sound welfare policy and community market access.
https://www.intemerate.earth/black-paper/
54) Jiangshi Trade: How the EU Co-opts BRICS Without Joining It Examines how the EU’s trade and sustainability chapter in the EU-Mercosur agreement functions as a strategy to co-opt BRICS economic influence without formal membership. 02/2026 https://www.intemerate.earth/jiangshi-trade-how-the-eu-co-opts-brics-without-joining-it/
53) Workers of the data world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your blockchains. A Marxist-inflected call to treat accounting as a site of political struggle, arguing that data workers must reclaim control from blockchain-enabled capital extraction. 01/2026 https://www.intemerate.earth/workers-of-the-data-world-unite-you-have-nothing-to-lose-but-your-blockchains/
52) Ecological Accounting’s Debt-Climate Nexus: Why FPIC must govern climate debt relief Argues that Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) must be the governing principle for any climate debt relief mechanism within the G20 interfaith framework. 01/2026 https://www.intemerate.earth/ecological-accountings-debt-climate-nexus-why-fpic-must-govern-climate-debt-relief/
51) Ecological “Intemerate” Auditing A conversational exploration with Professor “Marina” of what an Intemerate ecological auditing framework would look like in practice. 11/2025 https://www.intemerate.earth/ecological-intemerate-auditing/
50) Through the Glass, Darkly: Climate Finance Meets Debt Examines the murky intersection of climate finance mechanisms and sovereign debt, cross-posted from Substack. 11/2025 https://www.intemerate.earth/through-the-glass-darkly-climate-finance-meets-debt/
49) Local Data Sovereignty: The missing link Responds to an opinion piece arguing that local data sovereignty is the critical missing link between ecological accounting theory and on-the-ground implementation. 10/2025 https://www.intemerate.earth/local-data-sovereignty-the-missing-link/
48) Toward a Pasifika Horizon: Local Data Sovereignty and the Emergence of the Melanesian Ocean Reserve Argues that Pasifika should be understood as a constellation of sovereign ecological stewards, not a development frontier, and proposes the Melanesian Ocean Reserve as a framework. 06/2025 https://www.intemerate.earth/toward-a-pasifika-horizon-local-data-sovereignty-and-the-emergence-of-the-melanesian-ocean-reserve/
47) What GNDI Leaves Out of Pacific Economies Examines how Gross National Disposable Income metrics systematically undercount and misrepresent the true economic realities of Pacific Island nations. 06/2025 https://www.intemerate.earth/what-gndi-leaves-out-of-pacific-economies/
46) Pasifika Maritime Future: From Asia to Latin America — a Neoliberal-Free, Independent Pasifika Envisions a neoliberal-free Pasifika maritime future connecting Asia to Latin America through independent, sovereignty-based ecological governance. 05/2025 https://www.intemerate.earth/pasifika-maritime-future-from-asia-to-latin-america-a-neoliberal-free-independent-pasifika/
45) Hegemony and Ecocide: Trump’s EOs betrays Ocean Governance Argues that Trump’s executive orders unleashing American offshore resource extraction constitute a betrayal of international ocean governance and an act of ecocide. 04/2025 https://www.intemerate.earth/hegemony-and-ecocide-trumps-eos-betrays-ocean-governance/
44) Washington vs the Whale: Fishing, Industry, and the Militarization of Maritime Sovereignty Analyzes the April 2025 collision of US industrial fishing interests and the militarization of maritime policy at the expense of Pacific sovereignty. 04/2025 https://www.intemerate.earth/washington-vs-the-whale-fishing-industry-and-the-militarization-of-maritime-sovereignty/
43) What Can and Cannot be Done, Cannot be Undone: Deep seabed mining and the rogue state. A critical examination of deep seabed mining as an irreversible ecological harm enabled by rogue state behavior outside international governance frameworks. 04/2025 https://www.intemerate.earth/what-can-and-cannot-be-done-cannot-be-undone-deep-seabed-mining-and-the-rogue-state/
42) The ‘Whole of Life’ Reimagined: The Struggle for Ecological and Spiritual Justice Argues that late-stage capitalism’s commodification of the sacred demands a whole-of-life reimagining grounded in ecological and spiritual justice. 02/2025 https://www.intemerate.earth/the-whole-of-life-reimagined-the-struggle-for-ecological-and-spiritual-justice/
41) Under the Sanatorium of Progress and Liberation A poetic and critical essay on the contradictions of progress narratives entering 2025, connecting liberation theology to ecological accounting. 01/2025 https://www.intemerate.earth/under-the-sanatorium-of-progress-and-liberation/
40) Cooking the books on GDP Introduces the Density Debt Index as a tool for exposing how GDP manipulates economic narratives at the expense of ecological and social accounting. 12/2024 https://www.intemerate.earth/cooking-the-books-on-gdp/
39) Climate Justice and International Law: Why we need an Accounting Reset Examines Pacific climate activism at The Hague and argues that climate justice requires a fundamental reset of international accounting and legal frameworks. 12/2024 https://www.intemerate.earth/climate-justice-and-international-law-why-we-need-accounting-reset/
38) Azerbaijan COP29 Presentation A side-event presentation at COP29 in Azerbaijan presenting the Intemerate framework as a tool for climate finance and ecological accounting reform. 11/2024 https://www.intemerate.earth/azerbaijan-cop29-presentation/
37) Data Colonization: The Invisible Threat to Indigenous Communities Argues that data colonization — the extraction and control of indigenous data by outside entities — represents a new frontier of colonial harm requiring local data sovereignty. 08/2024 https://www.intemerate.earth/data-colonization-the-invisible-threat-to-indigenous-communities/
36) Even Adam and Eve… (the intemerate apple) Uses the Genesis story of the forbidden fruit as a metaphor for humanity’s relationship with ecological knowledge, temptation, and the cost of extractive economics. 06/2024 https://www.intemerate.earth/even-adam-and-eve/
35) IF20 Manaus Presentation Documents the Intemerate Earth presentation at the IF20 workshop in Manaus, Brazil, focused on indigenous data sovereignty and ecological accounting. 06/2024 https://www.intemerate.earth/if20-manaus-presentation/
34) Local Data Sovereignty: Cultivating marginalized access towards technological stewardship A video presentation arguing for marginalized communities’ right to control their own data as a foundation for technological stewardship and ecological accountability. 05/2024 https://www.intemerate.earth/local-data-sovereignty-cultivating-marginalized-access-towards-technological-stewardship/
33) Spiritual Warfare A reflective essay connecting a walk up Nuʻuanu Pali Drive to broader themes of biodiversity, economic equity, and gender inclusion in ecological justice movements. 12/2023 https://www.intemerate.earth/spiritual-warfare/
32) Local Data Sovereignty Defines local data sovereignty as generating and processing data within regional contexts, and argues it creates relevant jobs and strengthens ecological accounting. 06/2023 https://www.intemerate.earth/data-localism/
31) Ecological Accounting and Spirituality: Data Reciprocity and Data Localism Explores the ancient relationship between humanity and nature as a foundation for a spiritually-grounded approach to ecological accounting and data localism. 02/2023 https://www.intemerate.earth/bit-ly-3eqxdtz/
30 Density Debt Index (page) Introduces the Density Debt Index (DDI), a working draft measuring population, area, debt, and GDP to promote equalization in ecological accounting. 01/2023 https://www.intemerate.earth/density-debt-index/
29) The Intemerate Equation can be a counterweight to the unbalanced weight of our GDP Makes the case that reforming national accounting to include ecological and wellbeing values is the most concrete path to transforming the global economy. 01/2023 https://www.intemerate.earth/the-intemerate-equation-can-be-a-counterweight-to-the-unbalanced-weight-of-our-gdp/
28) Three Little Pigs: Kiribati, Tuvalu, and the Marshall Islands: The tall tale of resilience Uses the Three Little Pigs fable to argue that Kiribati, Tuvalu, and the Marshall Islands can resist eco-neoliberal efforts to devalue their homelands by asserting their own ecological accounting frameworks. 12/2022 https://www.intemerate.earth/three-little-pigs-kiribati-tuvalu-rmi/
27) COP 27: Why “loss and damage” is a bust before it begins Argues that without reforming national accounting systems, COP 27’s “loss and damage” framework will fail to deliver meaningful climate justice. 11/2022 https://www.intemerate.earth/cop-27-why-loss-and-damage-is-a-bust/
26) Disentangling DSM: Accounting for Spirituality and Wellbeing Explores the intersection of deep seabed mining, spirituality, and wellbeing, arguing that ecological accounting must account for what cannot be priced. 02/2022 https://www.intemerate.earth/accounting-for-spirituality-disentangling-dsm/
25) Wall Streets new Asset Class: Nature A critical analysis of Wall Street’s move to classify nature as a natural capital asset class, arguing it can only function as a privatization scheme. 11/2021 https://www.intemerate.earth/wall-streets-new-asset-class-nature/
24) Kehosa FDI, Presentation A video presentation on Kehosa and foreign direct investment, viewed through the lens of Intemerate ecological accounting. 10/2021 https://www.intemerate.earth/kehosa-fdi-presentation/
23) Post Growth Presentation A presentation for the WCC/WCRC/LWF NIFEA e-conference on de-growth, exploring living sufficiently and sustainably beyond GDP-driven growth. 10/2021 https://www.intemerate.earth/post-growth-presentation/
22) Olympics and GDP fun facts A lighthearted but pointed look at the relationship between Olympic performance, national GDP, and what that tells us about how we measure economic success. 08/2021 https://www.intemerate.earth/olympics-and-gdp-fun-facts/
21) Repairing the Terror of History Drawing on Mircea Eliade’s philosophy, this essay explores how ecological accounting can serve as a tool to confront and repair historical injustice. 07/2021 https://www.intemerate.earth/repairing-the-terror-of-history/
20) One Bank One Index Examines the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank’s “lean, clean and green” agenda and its implications for ecological-economic accounting. 06/2021 https://www.intemerate.earth/one-bank-one-index/
19) Ecological-Economic Accounts: Towards Intemerate Values (page) The full publication presenting the Intemerate ecological-economic accounting framework as an embedded Issuu document. 06/2021 https://www.intemerate.earth/ecological-economic-accounts-towards-intemerate-values/
18) They Count Bombs Argues that ecological and economic justice must begin with reforming accounting systems that currently count weapons and destruction as economic gains. 05/2021 https://www.intemerate.earth/they-count-bombs/
17) Accounting for Military Systems An examination of why high-GDP economies are often war economies, and how military spending is embedded — and hidden — within national accounting systems. 04/2021 https://www.intemerate.earth/accounting-for-military-systems/
16) Intemerate Manifesto (post) The full published Manifesto calling for restoring ecological biodiversity, reversing climate change, and reforming global economic accounting. 04/2021 https://www.intemerate.earth/intemerate-manifesto/
15) Reweaving the Ecological Mat: WCC/PCC Webinar A webinar co-hosted by the World Council of Churches and Pacific Conference of Churches presenting the Intemerate ecological accounting framework. 02/2021 https://www.intemerate.earth/reweaving-the-ecological-mat-wcc-pcc-webinar/
14) SEEA Intervention from the Intemerate Working Group on Data, Statistics and Valuation A video intervention presented to the UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting process on behalf of the Intemerate Working Group. 01/2021 https://www.intemerate.earth/seea-intervention-from-the-intemerate-working-group-on-data-statistics-and-valuation/
13) Intemerate Accounts A WCC presentation introducing the Intemerate Accounting system as a pure, inviolate ecological-economic framework grounded in reciprocity. 01/2021 https://www.intemerate.earth/intemerate-accounts/
12) President Konrote of Fiji considers Ecological Accounts Reports on the President of Fiji’s favorable remarks about the “Reweaving the Ecological Mat” movement at the VOID art exhibition. 10/2020 https://www.intemerate.earth/president-konrote-of-fiji-considers-ecological-accounts/
11) Towards our Ecological Economic Star Line A meditation on how Pacific Voyagers embody the revolutionary preservation of traditional knowledge in defiance of colonial economic systems. 10/2020 https://www.intemerate.earth/towards-our-ecological-economic-star-line/
10) Nothing More Beautiful than Organic Life Drawing on Dr. Wayne Kublalsingh’s TED talk, this post explores the inherent value of ecological life and local economies through the lens of Trinidad. 10/2020 https://www.intemerate.earth/nothing-more-beautiful-than-organic-life/
9) The Equation (page) A dedicated page presenting the full Intemerate Ecological Economic Equation and its components. 10/2020 https://www.intemerate.earth/the-equation/
8) Have a Good Day: Measuring Data Offsets A reflection on why small and developing economies are disadvantaged by standard national accounting systems, and how Intemerate Accounting addresses this imbalance. 09/2020 https://www.intemerate.earth/have-a-good-day-measuring-data-offsets/
7) The Equation (post) Introduces the Intemerate Ecological Economic Equation, which calculates the cost of environmental damage alongside the value of ecological protection and wellbeing. 08/2020 https://www.intemerate.earth/the-equation/
6) Intemerate Accounting An introduction to the Intemerate ecological accounting methodology designed to promote wellbeing and cultural resilience in the context of climate change, with a focus on the Pacific. 08/2020 https://www.intemerate.earth/intemerate/
5) Equation video A video explainer introducing the Intemerate Ecological Economic Equation and its methodology. 04/2020 https://www.intemerate.earth/equation-video/
4) Intemerate Manifesto (page) A call to restore ecological biodiversity, reverse climate change, and reform national accounting through the Intemerate framework. 04/2020 https://www.intemerate.earth/intemerate-manifesto/
3) Addressing COVID-19 An analysis of how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the limits of the global economy and the need for more resilient, ecological accounting frameworks. 04/2020 https://www.intemerate.earth/addressing-covid-19/
2) Immaculate inspiration The spiritual origins of Intemerate Accounting, born from a conversation with the General Secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches about ecological renewal. 08/2019 https://www.intemerate.earth/immaculate-inspiration/
1) Development Migration Presentation at the Pacific Islands Forum on climate change and migration, exploring regional responses to climate-driven displacement. 12/2016 https://www.intemerate.earth/development-migration/