Our Vision for the Future

 

TouchStone Resources Vision

In keeping with our role as a social entrepreneur, our vision is to ensure economic prosperity through the development of New Energy and New Water by means of a new Social Contract between the public and the private sector. Central to this vision is the notion of managing natural resources like water and energy as a flux rather than as a stock. A flux moves in time and space and can be recycled if the system is appropriately designed, whereas a stock is depleted over time and in general is managed as a linear process with an input and an output consisting of waste. This means that all of our activities are executed through partnerships carefully designed to align social objectives with business realities, but at all times with the specific objective of changing the way we manage resources, away from the traditional stock perception, to a new flux perception in which the resource utility is limited only by our ingenuity. A critical element of our thinking is based on what we call the WEALTH Model.
            
W = Water
E = Energy
A = Affordability
L = Leadership
T = Technology
H = Health (both human and ecosystem)
 
This is the core focus of the business plan underpinning TouchStone Resources (Pty) Ltd