Nick Keppel-PalmerFeb 186 minBuy-in not buying. The marketing of 'good'Sustainability is not a product feature. How we market "good" needs to be an appeal to values and identity.
Nick Keppel-PalmerNov 2, 20215 minKeeping it Simple? Now that's StupidThe pursuit of Silver Bullets and an obsession with standards are not helping with climate "What's the single most effective thing I can...
Nick Keppel-PalmerSep 3, 20213 minRegenerative Fund for Nature supports Good Growth in MongoliaA Good day for Good Growth We're thrilled that Kering and Conservation International's "Regenerative Fund for Nature" has chosen to...
Nick Keppel-PalmerJun 23, 20214 minWork with nature, design for placeRegenerative businesses don't have 'supply chains' Not in the conventional sense at least. As we start making our first products through...
Nick Keppel-PalmerFeb 22, 20215 minHow brands can restore natureWe forgot not just who we were, but where we were The past year or so has been like waking from a dream. Once we started building the...
Nick Keppel-PalmerJan 26, 20219 minHow to reconnect humans to nature?Humans have become disconnected from nature - if we're going to fix the planet we need to fix that.
Nick Keppel-PalmerSep 17, 20206 minPlace - not product - is at the heart of regenerative businessProduct centric, industrialised businesses can never be regenerative. A regenerative business must subordinate product to place.
Nick Keppel-PalmerAug 28, 20205 minChigerteiA glimpse at our pilot ecosystem in western Mongolia About 36 very bumpy hours in a Land Cruiser from Ulaan Bataar will take you west to...
Nick Keppel-PalmerAug 27, 20205 minOur bottom line: environment first We became extractive and we did not notice. Time to to reset our notion of "what matters".
Nick Keppel-PalmerJun 2, 20207 minConfessions - the customer is not King and other heresies Most of what we've been taught about business, markets and economics is untrue. Time for the red pill.
Nick Keppel-PalmerApr 2, 20205 minAfter the virus - one big change "If there is a battle between the planet and mankind, the planet will win" "what's the exit strategy?" is a big question without any kind...
mandar jayawantMar 28, 20205 minWe have become slaves to consumption - it is destroying the worldFrom next week my partner and I can no longer live together. I am not a citizen in this bit of Asia and do not perform an "essential"...
mandar jayawantMar 12, 20203 minGoing Beyond Brand BullshitWilliam Gibson’s novel The Peripheral is a great novel. In it a character from the past has to pretend to be, in the present, a...
mandar jayawantMar 9, 20202 minInternational Financial Institutions in Tomorrow’s CapitalismFor a while now, International Finance Institutions have been trying to integrate their activities better with the wider economic and...
Nick Keppel-PalmerFeb 28, 20203 minMaking buying stuff a political actCan we politicise consumption - to distinguish between buying stuff that restores natural and human capital as opposed to depletes it?
Nick Keppel-PalmerFeb 4, 20201 minArtisan wineThis is the first of a handful of small batch artisan wines. It's a project with masses of potential. Georgia is a nation of winemakers...
Nick Keppel-PalmerJan 12, 20202 minHerds like locustsThere are far too many animals in Mongolia - it's turning into a desert And a system narrowly focused on "fair" pay for herders makes it...
Nick Keppel-PalmerDec 31, 20197 minIs 'growth' good?Is 'growth' always a good thing? (original post now updated with a little coda on how the concept evolved - June 21) I've been in...