What we've learned

We became extractive and we did not notice. Time to to reset our notion of "what matters".

From 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"...

William 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...

For a while now, International Finance Institutions have been trying to integrate their activities better with the wider economic and...

Get married for love For much of my working life I've wrestled with the problems of partnership - or rather the wrong partners in...

Can we politicise consumption - to distinguish between buying stuff that restores natural and human capital as opposed to depletes it?

This 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...

There 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...

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...

Doing good is not - and never can be - a marketing campaign.

Last year I did something I suspect I will never do again in my life. I took a shower in an aeroplane. It was amazing to step off the...

Is ‘growth’ always a good thing? I’ve been in ‘growth’ my entire working life. It’s been the goal of (just about) every organisation I’ve...