River swimming and communication

August 10, 2019

Engaging people in change includes offering a tangible, visuable outcome – such as a “swim-able river”

What if you wrote your sustainability proposals like a copywriter?

November 9, 2017

Don’t just use logic and costs when you write a sustainability proposal – also leverage 21st century marketing know-how.

Are your personal emissions toxic?

June 3, 2016

A 6 point check for “toxic seriosity” It’s easy to get passionate about sustainability – but is your message EFFECTIVE? How do you know whether you’re creating action – or whether you’re teaching helplessness? Here’s a quick check on what you’re messaging and how you’re pushing it.

How did a small girl and a Harvard professor turn a property developer into a stealth greenie?

October 26, 2015

One Australian property developer went green after his young daughter stopped talking to him and his business mentor challenged him.

Force fields for change-making

January 20, 2015

Changing human systems starts with understanding them and the glue that holds them together. Human systems are heavily geared towards maintaining themselves and they often actively resist change. They want to conserve themselves. (Equally true for individuals, families, communities, organisations and societies.)

What types of conversations AREN’T you having?

December 18, 2014

If you’re into influencing and personal effectiveness then you’re in the conversation game.   It’s a game that many of us learned like we learned walk – by copying others without too much conscious consideration of the specifics of what we were doing. For some of us, even the suggestion that there are different types…

Galileo, heresy, physics, seduction and the emerging regenerative economy…

December 1, 2013

Galileo WASN’T burned at the stake – he didn’t discuss heresy BUT he gave astronomers better telescopes to see the world.