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3 days ago
6 min

Place - not product - is at the heart of regenerative business

Product centric, industrialised businesses can never be regenerative. A regenerative business must subordinate product to place.

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Nick Keppel-Palmer

Aug 28
5 min

Chigertei

A glimpse at our pilot ecosystem in western Mongolia About 36 very bumpy hours in a Land Cruiser from Ulaan Bataar will take you west to ...

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Nick Keppel-Palmer

Aug 27
5 min

Our bottom line: environment first

We became extractive and we did not notice. Time to to reset our notion of "what matters".

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Confessions - the customer is not King and other heresies

Nick Keppel-Palmer

Jun 2
7 min

Confessions - the customer is not King and other heresies

Most of what we've been taught about business, markets and economics is untrue. Time for the red pill.

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Nick Keppel-Palmer

Apr 2
5 min

After the virus - one big change

"If there is a battle between the planet and mankind, the planet will win" "what's the exit strategy?" is a big question without any kind...

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We have become slaves to consumption - it is destroying the world

mandar jayawant

Mar 28
5 min

We have become slaves to consumption - it is destroying the world

From next week my partner and I can no longer live together. I am not a citizen in this bit of Asia and do not perform an "essential" job...

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mandar jayawant

Mar 12
3 min

Going Beyond Brand Bullshit

William Gibson’s novel The Peripheral is a great novel. In it a character from the past has to pretend to be, in the present, a "neoprimi...

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International Financial Institutions in Tomorrow’s Capitalism

mandar jayawant

Mar 9
2 min

International Financial Institutions in Tomorrow’s Capitalism

For a while now, International Finance Institutions have been trying to integrate their activities better with the wider economic and fin...

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Local-Global - a Regenerative System to revive traditional textile hubs

mandar jayawant

Mar 2
4 min

Local-Global - a Regenerative System to revive traditional textile hubs

High-quality textile manufacturing hubs are getting hammered by cheap Chinese mass producers and the supply chains that feed these Chines...

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Nick Keppel-Palmer

Feb 28
3 min

Making buying stuff a political act

Can we politicise consumption - to distinguish between buying stuff that restores natural and human capital as opposed to depletes it?

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Nick Keppel-Palmer

Feb 4
1 min

Artisan wine

This is the first of a handful of small batch artisan wines. It's a project with masses of potential. Georgia is a nation of winemakers a...

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Nick Keppel-Palmer

Jan 12
2 min

Herds like locusts

There are far too many animals in Mongolia - it's turning into a desert And a system narrowly focused on "fair" pay for herders makes it w...

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Nick Keppel-Palmer

Dec 31, 2019
1 min

Tomorrow's Capitalism

On 10th January 2020 we're appearing at the Tomorrow's Capitalism event in London It promises to be a lively and challenging and (let's h...

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Nick Keppel-Palmer

Dec 31, 2019
6 min

Fake Good

Many brands are being dishonest when it comes to doing good. Time to call them out. There's a spectrum - hiding bad ingredients on labels...

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Nick Keppel-Palmer

Dec 31, 2019
6 min

Good Growth

Is 'growth' always a good thing? I've been in 'growth' my entire working life. It's been the goal of (just about) every organisation I've...

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