Stuart and Stephanie Mills have launched Wealth With a Why — a guide for investors and advisers who want their money to line up with their values, and to play a meaningful role in a sustainable future. The central question is beautifully simple: “Can I do better with my money?” And the answer, unsurprisingly, is…
Green Angel Ventures: Carbon Impact Report 2025 (highlights + link)
Green Angel Ventures (GAV) has published its Carbon Impact Report 2025 — a refreshingly transparent look at the real-world emissions reductions being delivered by their climate-focused portfolio. Highlights (from the report) GAV estimates ~449,000 tonnes of CO₂e avoided by the activities of its portfolio companies since it started collecting data in 2018. That total is…
How the UK protects great crested newts (and why planning gets involved)
The great crested newt, and why it’s so protected The great crested newt (Triturus cristatus) is one of the UK’s most famous “protected species”. If you’ve ever wondered why small construction projects can end up involving ecologists, surveys, timing restrictions, or licences—this animal is a big part of the story. What the law actually protects…
Unnoticed bar
It may not look like much, but to me this is the most perfect exhibit in London’s Science Museum: This modest bar, about 25cm long, is displayed recessed in a bench seat. Thousands of people sit on it every year, without much thought to its significance, I suspect. That’s actually quite understandable, because it is surrounded…
U.S. Carpets
Even now, the thing that I still think of is the care and attention. The love, almost, embedded in these undeniable works of art. Most people pass them by, eyes fixed forward, not down. But not me. To me, it’s these intricate things under our very feet which hold some crazy fascination. US carpets. Not…
The Strategic Logic of Organised Crime
It was a pleasure to attend a short lecture today by Dr James Cockayne, Head of the UN University Office at the United Nations. James was in London as part of a lecture tour promoting his new book “Hidden Power, the Strategic Logic of Organised Crime.” I have known James since we were both at the…
Areas of interest
Some areas I’m interested in investigating, investing in, or being involved with: how populations and society will adapt to climate change technological solutions to global warming how we will deal with excessive waste how the physical environment, the economy, companies and societies will adapt to fully-autonomous (L4 or L5) vehicles will commercial aviation ever be truly eco-friendly?…