Legal Recourse
I am working across multiple facets of the legal sector, exploring how law can be used to effect environmental change at speed and scale. My work ranges across: Strategy advice to commercial law firms on responding to the twin crises of climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse; Facilitation and project coordination for The Chancery Lane Project, which aims to rewire contracts and laws to fight climate change; Administration and support to a range of campaigns and campaigning organisations; and Strategy development to philanthropic foundations seeking to enter the field.
View ProjectStronger Stories
I’m working with Stronger Stories, assisting them to develop a movement that uses storytelling to help good ideas get heard. My work has three strands. First, I’m supporting them to increase their engagement in the environment sector. Second, I’m helping them develop an open source, distributed and enabling organisational structure capable of building a movement. Third, I’m helping them keep the show on the road while we move Stronger Stories from consultancy to movement.
View ProjectBetter Nature
Launched at the start 2020, Better Nature aims to place nature and natural resources at the centre of emerging efforts to redesign our social, economic and political systems, to ensure the continued wellbeing of humanity on a healthy and thriving planet. Our analysis indicates that the transformation of humanity’s activities so they restore nature is only possible at the speed required through political-economic rule change. Such a change will only be realised via strategic and targeted civic mobilisation, enabled by narrative change. These three elements, political-economic rule change, narrative change and civic mobilisation, define our approach to catalysing systems change. Moving forward, we are supporting multiple keystone actors to adopt this approach, adapting existing and building new infrastructure, grant...
View ProjectCapacity Building and Support
I provide capacity building and support to a range of organisations and individuals focused on developing solutions that are proportionate to the environmental and social challenges facing us. Current themes, common to many of the organisations I’m engaged with, are around improving communications and engagement, identifying and securing funding, and strategy development within complex systems.
View ProjectBringing GreenWave to the UK
GreenWave is an award winning US-based organisation that has developed an Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) model through sustainably farming a variety of ocean produce.[1] Through CIVA, I have partnered with GreenWave to launch this innovative model across the UK. The model is currently being operated by farmers and local communities successfully in 25 locations on both coasts in the US, and has caught the attention of chefs, food processors and retailers, the media and, most importantly, prospective farmers and local communities. Examples of media interest in GreenWave can be found here. Details of GreenWave’s partners can be found here. Founder Bren Smith’s TED talk can be viewed here. The 2013 New Yorker article that triggered much of the subsequent...
View ProjectStephen Lloyd Awards
Since his untimely death in 2014 I have been assisting BWB LLP and their charitable incorporated organisation, BWB CIO, in the development and management of the Stephen Lloyd Awards, an annual award that supports early stage social projects that have real potential to achieve practical, sustainable social change.
View ProjectConsulting Projects
I continue to work for a range of clients delivering consulting projects using a Systems Psychodynamics approach. Clients I have recently completed work for include a major London housing association, a charity working in the homelessness sector and a small retail social enterprise.
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