Julie Blane and Carmel Rafaeli are the Founding Partners of The Table, “a community of investors at the intersection of Climate and Diversity, focused on increasing the am…| David Bent
Hans Unkles is a boat builder and fisherman. He is responsible for the first (and so far only) fully electric fishing vessel in the UK, based out of Tayvallich on Scotland’s West Coast.He con…| David Bent
Key points from Carbon Brief’s explainer of the UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2024. The good news: the world away from some of the darkest climate futures that seemed plausible before the Paris A…| David Bent
The paper summarises a mission-orientated innovation approach, hosted by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), on a widely-used type of polymer (PLF) which has had little attention on sustainability to date. Behind the specifics of the polymer, there are some hints of a process for setting up and starting to run a mission-orientated innovation approach […]| David Bent
The TransCap Initiative (Transformative Capital Initiative) is a “collaborative innovation space for building the field of systemic investing”. They have done us all a huge favour by trying to bring some working definitions, concepts and practices to the emerging space of systemic investing in their new-ish publication ‘Definition and Hallmarks of Systemic Investing’ (here). Their […]| David Bent
Transformative Investment in Sustainability: An Investment Philosophy for the Second Deep Transition (here) is a brilliant application of the latest conceptualisation of massive economic change in …| David Bent
Amy Wilson is a consultant on commercial marketing strategies to early-stage startups (or, as her LinkedIn page puts it: “Venture Lead/Portfolio CCO/CMO & Advisory Board Member for Startups & Scaleups 🚀 Fundraising Support 💰 Founder Mentor 🌱 Ethical Investor”). This is part of a series of interviews about innovation for sustainability conducted for the UCL Institute for Sustainable […]| David Bent
Erica Austin is a social entrepreneur, community weaver, facilitator, photographer and Christchurch Ambassador (LinkedIn). She describes her self as a multi-potentialite, or someone with activities in many fields. As we will hear, in Erica’s case, this is something of an understatement. I was first introduced to her as the Community Activator in the Edmund Hillary […]| David Bent
Playing to Win is an excellent book on business strategy. It comes out of the experiences of A.G. Lafley (formerly CEO of P&G) and Roger Martin (who advised P&G, and is also a leading management academic, including in the growth of design thinking). The fundamental propositions: I first read this in 2013 (11 years ago) […]| David Bent
Rupert Read is Co-Director of the Climate Majority Project, and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, and former spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion (Twitter, Website…| David Bent
