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Nick Keppel-Palmer
Apr 2, 20205 min read
After the virus - one big change
"If there is a battle between the planet and mankind, the planet will win" "what's the exit strategy?" is a big question without any kind...


Nick Keppel-Palmer
Mar 28, 20205 min read
We have become slaves to consumption - it is destroying the world
From next week my partner and I can no longer live together. I am not a citizen in this bit of Asia and do not perform an "essential"...


Nick Keppel-Palmer
Mar 12, 20203 min read
Going Beyond Brand Bullshit
William Gibson’s novel The Peripheral is a great novel. In it a character from the past has to pretend to be, in the present, a...

Nick Keppel-Palmer
Mar 9, 20202 min read
International Financial Institutions in Tomorrow’s Capitalism
For a while now, International Finance Institutions have been trying to integrate their activities better with the wider economic and...


Nick Keppel-Palmer
Feb 28, 20205 min read
Because we're big....the size delusion
Get married for love For much of my working life I've wrestled with the problems of partnership - or rather the wrong partners in...


Nick Keppel-Palmer
Feb 28, 20203 min read
Making buying stuff a political act
Can we politicise consumption - to distinguish between buying stuff that restores natural and human capital as opposed to depletes it?


Nick Keppel-Palmer
Feb 4, 20201 min read
Artisan wine
This is the first of a handful of small batch artisan wines. It's a project with masses of potential. Georgia is a nation of winemakers...


Nick Keppel-Palmer
Jan 12, 20202 min read
Herds like locusts
There are far too many animals in Mongolia - it's turning into a desert And a system narrowly focused on "fair" pay for herders makes it...

Nick Keppel-Palmer
Jun 4, 20196 min read
Fake Good
Doing good is not - and never can be - a marketing campaign.


Nick Keppel-Palmer
Feb 19, 20194 min read
Supply chain – a key aspect of Good Growth
Last year I did something I suspect I will never do again in my life. I took a shower in an aeroplane. It was amazing to step off the...


Nick Keppel-Palmer
Oct 9, 20186 min read
Good growth?
Is ‘growth’ always a good thing? I’ve been in ‘growth’ my entire working life. It’s been the goal of (just about) every organisation I’ve...
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