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Nick Keppel-Palmer
- Jan 26
- 9 min
How to reconnect humans to nature?
Humans have become disconnected from nature - if we're going to fix the planet we need to fix that.
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Nick Keppel-Palmer
- Aug 28, 2020
- 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 the valley of Chigertei in the very far west of Mongolia. Or you can fly if you have no sense of irony. This is a place which is extreme. It can be astonishingly cold. And breathtakingly beautiful. It's ethnic Kazakh, so the people who live here are not really Mongolian, they have their own sense of identity which is very connected to the pl
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Nick Keppel-Palmer
- Aug 27, 2020
- 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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Nick Keppel-Palmer
- Apr 2, 2020
- 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 of answer right now. In a few short weeks the majority of the world's population have been forced into a different way of living. Will things ever "get back to normal"? Should they? I very much hope not. Right now all the rhetoric is about fighting the virus, conquering this thing, defeating it. Humans have for way too long seen themselves
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mandar jayawant
- Mar 28, 2020
- 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. I need to go back to where I came from. If I get sick here I will take a hospital bed away from a citizen. I was welcome to spend money to gawk at gardens in the sky or eat overpriced dressed up food. Not welcome to spend time with a loved one. Consumption and entertainment get into the GDP, money transactions count; relationships are usel
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mandar jayawant
- Mar 12, 2020
- 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 "neoprimitivist curator", something that she could never even have comprehended - simply because of when she was from. So they implant into her present day avatar a cognitive bundle to enable her to sound something like a neoprimitivist curator. “You’ll spout a reasonably high grade of facile nonsense”, she is told. “Will I know what it means?”, she
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mandar jayawant
- Mar 9, 2020
- 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 financial system. Their efforts to better align social and environment objectives with private sector and non-government objectives mirror the principles of Triple Bottom Line (People, Planet, Profit) coined by Volans co-founder John Elkington in 1994 - TBL was intended to pull Planet and People into the Profit focus of businesses; IFIs have be
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Nick Keppel-Palmer
- Feb 4, 2020
- 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 and would be winemakers. Many thousands make wine as a hobby in the villages and mountains that are a long, long way from any kind of market. Commercialising this passion and making it possible for the makers to earn a living is the point of this project - and in the process a few lucky wine drinkers get to taste some extremely rare wines. Th
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Nick Keppel-Palmer
- Jan 12, 2020
- 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 worse On 10th January at the Volans "Tomorrow's Capitalism" event we referred to the damage caused by mass market knitwear and cashmere. Cheap cashmere mean that the only way herders can increase their income is by increasing the number of animals. This has led to a mass of livestock that is completely out of whack with the ecosystem. Paying
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