The Positive Disruptor September 2022

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Can nature and art soothe our anxiety and spur us into climate action?

Being at war with nature takes its toll. Deafening alarm bells ring out ‘code red for humanity’ and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2022 report – titled Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability – makes for a depressing read: a near future of famine, disease, flood, wildfire, drought and resource wars. We wouldn’t wish it on our children, but tragically that is exactly what we have done.

Read the full article here. Published in Country and Town House Magazine.

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The Positive Disruptor July 2022

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Rivers are the polluted lifeblood of our land. How can we save them?

You can’t plough up or build on rivers. But you can straighten, drain and pollute them. That’s been the story for Britain’s 200,000km of arterial waterways for decades. All our rivers are chemically polluted, and only 14 per cent are in reasonable ecological health and fit to swim in – if you can locate the three per cent with public access, that is.

Read the full article here. Published in Country and Town House Magazine.

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The Positive Disruptor May 2022

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It’s time for national food sufficiency – that also restores nature.

Picture this: red deer stags strutting in heat-shimmering savannah; purple emperor butterflies flitting once-a-hedgerow treetops; dragonfly dragoons skimming lily-clad, trout-packed swamps. Now add a soundtrack of cooing turtle doves, clacking bills of circling white storks and the plop of decades-silent marsh frogs.

This is no far-flung land but 3,500 acres of West Sussex beneath the Gatwick holding stack where, I wager, a Knepp Wildland safari would awaken primal longings in any British soul.

Read the full article here. Published in Country and Town House Magazine.

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The Positive Disruptor March 2022

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We need to start learning from nature.

Kill it, cut it up, look at it under a microscope. Patent it. This is conventional problem solving. For four hundred years, this ‘mechanistic’ and ‘reductionist’ scientific methodology has underpinned Western Europe’s global rampage on culture and nature.

The upside? We can eat what we want, travel where we want, talk with whom we want… But for what cost?

Read the full article here. Published in Country and Town House Magazine.

Pioneer – Accelerate – Transform at http://www.jaowallace.com