From Bordallo II (...well said!): "Our cities are being converted into huge game boards. The right to housing, enshrined in the Constitution, is now at the mercy of luck or chance." #housing #portugal #bordalloII #Lisbon #masstourism

Up the 1% 😊

My fav Galician hideaway … anyone guess where it is?? @galicia

Chuffed to bag the FIRST EVER media interview with world 42nd richest man, Walmart heir Lukas Walton ... and even more chuffed that he had something positive to say about how (potentially) to fix the planet's problems. In the upcoming FT Wealth report. Sneak preview here: www.ft.com/content/f1a7...

Joe Biden's national climate advisor has every reason to be spitting mad ... in fact, she's surprisingly chipper. Why? US states are still pushing ahead with clean energy regardless of Trump. More on my interview with @americaisallin.com Gina McCarthy: www.reuters.com/sustainabili... @reuters.com

Renewables across the Americas are growing fast: not because consumers are "woke", but because solar & wind are common sense (i.e. cheap, home grown, clean ...). My piece for today's FT report on Fastest Growing Companies in the Americas: www.ft.com/content/5b19... @financialtimes.com #renewables

Reminiscent of New College offering European Jewish intellectuals like Levi Strauss a home in the 1930s … “where was that?”, you ask. In the United States … “Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’” www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Good news: the latest issue of Positive News magazine has just landed!!!! 😊 Lots of uplifting stories ✍️, including a couple from me (on a centre for child victims of modernday slavery in Ghana 🇬🇭, and writer Matt Gaw on his love of gnarly weather ⛈️). More here: www.positive.news. Keep believing 💪

Meet the urban miners of Leuven, Belgium ... some of the silent heroes build the more sustainable systems of tomorrow. My latest piece for @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... #circulareconomy #waste #recycling #reuse #construction #urbanmining @iclei.org

“Soft skills”: vital idea, unhelpful term. My latest piece for @reuters.com www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Move over specialty coffee: it's chocolate's turn to go "terroir". My review of Rowan Jacobsen's entertaining investigation in to the rise of "bean-lobar" chocolate: this week's TLS: www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat... @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Amazonian artists object to 'Western gaze' in #photography show by iconic photographer Sebastião Salgado: my piece in @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... Thnx: @elianebrum.sumauma.com, @jonathan-watts.bsky.social @infoamazonia.org, @geviana.bsky.social, @firstamart.bsky.social

Need some positivity in your life? Good news: Positive News is out with a new issue. Chuffed to bag the cover story, about the rise of the hands-on dad. Just one of the many uplifting themes bursting from its pages. To subscribe & treat yourself to some optimism: www.positive.news/magazine/

“How did mate (pronounced “ma-tay”) come to be a cultural institution? And what do its production, trade and modes of consumption tell us about our political economy, past and present?” Read on to discover more in @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.co.uk/culture/food...

Here’s to 2025 … flying high 🎈

Happy Christmas from the land of Saint Nicholas

One aspect of my work that I LOVE is public speaking. So I'm really chuffed to now be represented by Great British Speakers, alongside the likes of @benedictallen.bsky.social, @bethrigby.bsky.social, @garethwynwilliams.bsky.social, etc. More here: greatbritishspeakers.co.uk/talents/oliv...

Powerful photo essay by Berlin-based photographer, Julia Ochs, on the harsh realities (and poor returns) of ocean bottom trawling 🌊🐬🦑 eu.patagonia.com/nl/en/storie... #saveouroceans #sustainable #fishing

Come on @bsky.app peeps, we can do this!!! Hope, help, hilarity ... bring it on #solutions #ideas #betterpresent #brighterfuture