Why My Near Death Experience Made me Want to Save the Planet
Which is harder: Solving the climate crisis or getting roughed up by the KGB behind the Iron Curtain in the dying days of the Soviet Union? Without a question, it’s the climate crisis. I should know — I have experience with both. My time inside Russia has just been documented in the new Apple TV+ […]
3 Challenges For Making Global Sustainability Strategies Local
They say “all politics are local.” So are effective sustainability strategies. Translating global corporate sustainability ambitions into local market strategies is necessary for accelerating progress — although it’s no simple task. Companies of different sizes and cultures face similar challenges and questions around how to meet the needs of local markets while moving globally in […]
Why Islands Are Leading the Way on Renewable Energy
Though both are Pacific island paradises, there is a world of difference between Hawaii and Palau. Hawaii is part of the United States, has a population of almost 1.5 million, and has an estimated GDP of nearly $74 billion. Palau is an independent republic and a Member State of the UN, has a population of […]
Now’s the Time For Heroines and Heroes
We are dancing on the razor’s edge – a dangerous proposition as we are in a shrinking and critical window of time for our efforts to reverse the most catastrophic impacts of climate change we are facing. At the same time, we find ourselves with the tools, understandings and solutions to make radical changes in […]
Will People Only Act When Climate Change Kills the Wine Industry?
A number of years ago, I had the privilege to speak at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), a global body comprising members of the national parliaments of 178 of the 193 UN Member States. (Their latest assembly took place in October 2022 in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.) At that event, I made friends with a […]