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…
Instead of scientists predicting a rise in global temperature by 3-6 degrees by 2100 . . . we have a chance of not only halting the rise to 1.5 degrees above the norm, but reversing it . . . and to fully restore degraded habitats . . . Why are leaders and many in…
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…
A few years ago a friend invited me to a talk at London’s Royal Geographical Society. The theme was whether the age of exploration was finally over and how the RGS might reinvent itself in a strange new world where everything on Earth worth doing appeared to have been done. It sounded interesting. I was…
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