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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Collapse or co-exist? Are you ready to think differently and act now? My first column for Country & Town House that aims to ruffle feathers, but equally force us into flight towards a thriving future in this hothouse world. Read the full article here. Published in Country and Town House Magazine. Pioneer – Accelerate […]
www.jaowallace.com launches to share the services offered by management consultant and change agent James Wallace. Operating throughout the UK, Europe and further afield, James helps startups and organisations to pioneer solutions for climate change, renewable energy, food security, ethical investment, sustainable development, health, future cities and pollution. Working as a consultant or a member of […]