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Selling nature in order to save it?
My new opinion piece on the perils and nuances of market-based approaches to regenerating nature.
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Extinction is loneliness
Let’s remember what extinction is. What it feels like to those who are dying. Let’s bring it closer to home, envelop it in our arms, and promise, not on my watch. Let’s be the ones who take on the old shapes, the new shapes, pouring ourselves into the voids of extinction, the cognition of our fleshy bodies and synapses fusing again to make entirely...
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Can We Grow Closer to Life by Measuring Biodiversity?
Increasingly we must wrap our minds around the sheer complexity and beauty of biodiversity. Whether it's for the development of nature-related financial disclosures, natural capital products, biodiversity bonds, or corporate risk assessments... Biodiversity is the 'hot new thing'. But can the process of measurement actually bring us closer to the living world? I think it can. But only if we apply several key concepts.
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Our Planet’s Blood
Our planet has a body just like our own. By swimming in the science of wildlife migration, ecological connectivity and the free flow of Earth systems, I unpack what happens when we strangle the passage of human and non-human life.
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Let’s Talk about Nature
An opinion piece I wrote on three broad problems with how the term ‘nature’ is commonly used, and a few ideas on how we can refresh the ways that we talk about nature.