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Regenerative Fund for Nature supports Good Growth in Mongolia
A Good day for Good Growth We're thrilled that Kering and Conservation International's "Regenerative Fund for Nature" has chosen to...
Nick Keppel-Palmer
Sep 3, 20213 min read


Work with nature, design for place
Regenerative businesses don't have 'supply chains' Not in the conventional sense at least. As we start making our first products through...
Nick Keppel-Palmer
Jun 23, 20214 min read


How brands can restore nature
We forgot not just who we were, but where we were The past year or so has been like waking from a dream. Once we started building the...
Nick Keppel-Palmer
Feb 22, 20215 min read


How to reconnect humans to nature?
Humans have become disconnected from nature - if we're going to fix the planet we need to fix that.
Nick Keppel-Palmer
Jan 26, 20219 min read


Place - not product - is at the heart of regenerative business
Product centric, industrialised businesses can never be regenerative. A regenerative business must subordinate product to place.
Nick Keppel-Palmer
Sep 17, 20206 min read


Chigertei
A glimpse at our pilot ecosystem in western Mongolia About 36 very bumpy hours in a Land Cruiser from Ulaan Bataar will take you west to...
Nick Keppel-Palmer
Aug 28, 20205 min read


Our bottom line: environment first
We became extractive and we did not notice. Time to to reset our notion of "what matters".
Nick Keppel-Palmer
Aug 27, 20205 min read


Confessions - the customer is not King and other heresies
Most of what we've been taught about business, markets and economics is untrue. Time for the red pill.
Nick Keppel-Palmer
Jun 2, 20207 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
Apr 2, 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 28, 20205 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 12, 20203 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
Mar 9, 20202 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, 20205 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 28, 20203 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
Feb 4, 20201 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
Jan 12, 20202 min read
Is 'growth' good?
Is 'growth' always a good thing? (original post now updated with a little coda on how the concept evolved - June 21) I've been in...
Nick Keppel-Palmer
Dec 31, 20197 min read


Fake Good
Doing good is not - and never can be - a marketing campaign.
Nick Keppel-Palmer
Jun 4, 20196 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
Feb 19, 20194 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...
Nick Keppel-Palmer
Oct 9, 20186 min read
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