I deeply love writing. Podcasting and making videos is cool, but the written word is my passion. Over many years, I’ve penned many blogs, not all published here, about my work, things I’m seeing, reflections.
I hope you enjoy this collection of written works.
One of the great tensions for change-makers is this question of what to do when you're confronted by an immovable object beyond your power to change. Despite everything you do, all the tricks you've learned from past experiences, your sheer will and determination, your oratory skills, nothing works, you just can't make a dent.
When then must we do? Ke garne.
Read MoreI think we’ve got to stop being passengers and start being drivers. My Carbon Zero is a crowd-sourced vehicle, where everyone has their own steering wheel and controls that allow them to be active in driving their own journey, taking their own climate action. Dreamers no more and fun too!
Read MoreIn a short, 46 month period, that kicked off with the Nestlé Greenpeace campaign on March 17th, 2010 and concluded with that December 5th, 2013 Wilmar announcement, we’d seen this gruelling, brutal, beautiful cooperation help the world’s largest food, palm oil and integrated pulp and paper companies and second largest palm oil planter commit to ending deforestation in their supply chains. Quite something.
Read MoreThis time of opening is a chance for leaders to lay a strong, durable foundation for their organisation’s future great performance. It’s an opportunity to listen to their people and revisit their Values.
Read MoreHusk started in 2017 and is a social venture that makes biochar out of rice husk. I’m including Husk in my Carbon Zero “Carbon Investment Portfolio” to help me remove my lifetime emissions from the atmosphere and square my personal Carbon Balance Sheet.
Read MoreIn this week’s episode of Sustainability Unpicked, Scott talks to Florian Reber, a Swiss-German political scientist, sustainability advisor and climate change specialists who left the office and discovered true innovation in climate change on two wheels.
Read MoreThe first of the Sustainability Unpicked podcast series, with this episode featuring Dr Kat Bruce, Founder and CEO of NatureMetrics. Scott and Kat talk about how her company tackles the issue of biodiversity loss using DNA found in water.
Read MoreGeneva Airport CEO, André Schneider, is a man on a mission. Since joining the airport in 2016, he’s dived into all manner of projects to address the many environmental and social challenges of running this important regional hub.
Read MoreAs the Arctic burns and temperatures soar, it might be time to ponder whether it’s responsible to encourage consumption by telling customers your products are sustainable.
Read MoreFighting underpins so much human interaction but despite it, other headlines tell us that climate change, with all its negative impacts and despite all the fighting, is upon us. Self-evidently, fighting isn’t working. Indeed, I think it’s a huge part of the problem. The big question for me is whether a different way could emerge, before it’s too late?
Read MoreAs we wallow, with everything in ruin, we must play, explore ideas and then we might start seeing things that we hadn’t realised. Patterns might form and perhaps only then might we find a path emerging out the other side, back to the surface, to happiness, to action that makes sense, freed from ego, regenerated in the darkness. Only then might we find the epiphany that there is a way to keep going.
Read MoreSo, tomorrow I meet the Mountain.
And I will carry you
deep in my heart,
all the way up
and all the way down.
