Category: nature
-
Our greatest enemy
“Time is your greatest enemy”. This is Maverick’s first lesson when tasked with teaching a younger generation of fighter pilots. Nobody knows better than him how to cut corners in the air and skim over sand dunes. He is the master of seconds. Yet throughout Top Gun, a longer scale of time overlays the narrative,…
-
The interplay between nature and finance
In March, the TNFD released a prototype of its long-awaited nature-related risk management and disclosure framework. A guidance for financial institutions and corporates to measure their impacts and dependencies on nature, and risks stemming from biodiversity loss, the framework marks the emergence of nature into international financial policy. It is a sign that the right…
-
THE NARRATIVE CONVERGES WITH NATURE
“Your kind never sees us whole. You miss the half of it, and more. There’s always as much belowground as above”. Richard Powers 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner The Overstory begins from the perspective of a tree, raising all too common human short sightedness. Look beneath the canopy and you’ll discover the complexities of our plant…
-
All-important soil
Much of the ongoing global extinction is taking place underground. Booming metropolises of biological production and exchange crumble in silence, at a rate of 75 billion tonnes per year. Soil, the most biologically diverse material on Earth, is a cornerstone of life driven to irrelevance by our mechanised understanding of nature. Soil feeds us, its…
VALUE IN NATURE 