📍 Start Here: Composting Yesterday’s World
Welcome. This space is for inquiry, honesty, and learning to see differently. Not polished optimism or doomsday collapse, but listening closely to where we are.
I’ve worked in sustainability for over two decades. I’ve seen frameworks, policies, and technologies come and go. Many of the stories we’ve trusted—about growth, control, “solutions”—are no longer helping us. Some never were.
These essays aren’t about fixing the system. They’re about facing what is unraveling, and noticing what might still take root. I write weekly, on Thursday mornings.
If you’re new, here are four posts that form a spine of this work:
Why Have We Failed?
Ten propositions about why sustainability efforts have fallen short, not because of a lack of ambition or courage, but because the systems we’ve placed our trust in were never built for planetary care.
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The Big Oopses
A catalogue of 20 climate strategies that seemed promising at the time but quietly failed (or made things worse). Less a blame list than an invitation to look at the deeper logic shaping these patterns.
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Why Are They Winning?
A blunt look at how old power—fossil fuels, finance, and vested interests—is not just resisting change but consolidating its hold, and what it means to face the reality that they are, for now, winning.
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Solutions, Seeds, and Systems
From the ChangeNOW conference in Paris comes a field report from among the booths and slogans. What does it mean to search for real signals, not noise? And how might we recognize the seeds of something else?
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There’s no single thesis here, no easy arc. But if you feel, as I do, that something is ending and something else beginning, perhaps this space and its weekly texts can offer language, clarity, and companionship along the way.
Welcome. And thank you for reading.