Beowulf and the Banker

Podcast version of the below text (8 minutes). The Old English poem Beowulf, perhaps more than any other story, might be the antidote to the poison of business-as-usual as lockdown eases and world events scream for change. It is a story for everyone – shareholder, chief executive and lobbyist included. Whether we realise it or not, humans…

500 Billion New Trees and a Balanced World

A Culture is no better than its woods. W. H. Auden. What do the following have in common: a brilliant but ridiculed Austrian scientist by the name of Viktor Schauberger, a man living on the streets of LA, a couple of Kiwis and a sun-baked biker (me) riding through Central America? The answer: a vision. What…