Journal

Here’s a very short video shot by NTT Data in our home in Barnes on the theme of Ugly Ducklings and Green Swans.

Delighted to see Green Swans out in Korean, with an interview published there this week, for those who read Korean.

Otherwise, life spins along. Did a panel session for the Edison Electric Institute in the USA yesterday, with Angela Wilkinson (Secretary General of the World Energy Council) and Jamie Arbib (founder, RethinkX).

Among other things have a memorial service for Mike Cooper this morning, a former submariner and maritime lawyer who was a long-time friend through our children, followed by a 3-hour meeting of the WWF Council of Ambassadors in Hanover Square and then dinner at the Conduit with Ipshita Mandal-Johnson, CEO of the Global Bio Fund.

Meanwhile, Volans is continuing to attract a good deal of interest – and our small team is growing. We are putting the whole team through John Fullerton’s Regenerative Economics course at the moment, where I’m on the faculty – and more or less all heading off to Mallorca early in May to spend several days with Daniel Christian Wahl.

And I continue to crank along with the interviews of Regenerators for the Green Swans Observatory. Among my favourite recent interviews is the one I did with Dr Christian Busch, author of The Serendipity Mindset and Connecting The Dots. When I get to 20-21, am planning to pull together an overview.

In other news, I have finished a late draft of the new book, and am now looking for a suitable literary agent. A strange feeling coming out the other side of the project, which has a much stronger autobiographical flavour than anything I have done to date. At times it feels a bit like Wile E. Coyote zooming off the cliff edge.

Delighted to see TOPIA running a version of my Costa Rica vs. Russia piece.

My trip report on our recent trip to Costa Rica can be found here. The third image shows the group we travelled with, including our guide and driver. We were seeing glimpses of a paradise while the Russian invasion turned parts of Ukraine into hell on Earth. Clashing worlds of regeneration (Costa Rica) and degeneration (Russia).

I’m pretty sure that this was recorded last year, and am also pretty sure that I’m not a professor at IESE, but I did speak there – and this is a good capture of what’s going through my brain at the moment.