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What goes on around here?

Since launching this Medium channel in 2016 it’s been a fun writing adventure. My purpose in life is to support the shift to a regenerative economy, so that’s what I write about. …

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What goes on around here?
What goes on around here?

4 days ago

Medium Short: An Accountability Practice

A way to stay semi-tethered as I feel my way along the unmarked trail of industrial healing — What’s Up? Ever since unhooking from traditional freelance consulting to pursue Matereality in more depth, I’ve been appreciating the experiment. But sometimes I crave a way to see “progress”. So I’m offering myself a way to see my forward strides (and probably backwards and sideways…) so that in those moments when I…

Esg

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Medium Short: An Accountability Practice
Medium Short: An Accountability Practice

May 21

Yes, please send me my starter pack

But I have a few questions first. — Dear Samantha Suppiah, Thank you for providing the opportunity to experience a “Plantation Sustainability Starter Pack”. This is exactly what the world has been waiting for! And since I am (I think?) …

Sustainability

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Yes, please send me my starter pack
Yes, please send me my starter pack

May 13

Does Google Fit In Our Future?

I ran an assessment to find out: does the company contribute to—or undermine—the future we want? Here’s what I learned. — What’s this all about? After twenty years of sustainability consulting, including conducting a lot of materiality assessments where I felt like we were side-stepping the real conversations — e.g., about business models and economic structures that incentivize harm — I launched a project called Matereality. It’s a twist on the materiality assessments done for…

Materiality

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Does Google Fit In Our Future?
Does Google Fit In Our Future?

Apr 1

When Materiality Meets Reality

What if we look at an old tool in a new way? I propose a variation on a materiality assessment, as an alternate way to understand a company in relation to the future we want. This new approach asks the question,“What if materiality was based in reality?” Those of us working in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) space, encounter materiality assessments…

Esg

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When Materiality Meets Reality
When Materiality Meets Reality

Feb 1

Carolyn and the Courageous Cushion

Carolyn McAlpine — McA as some of us called her — was the youngest member of the Etobicoke Handweavers and Spinners Guild when she died a decade ago from an aggressive brain cancer. She was 33 years old. She was the most joyful, fun person I have had the pleasure…

Courage

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Carolyn and the Courageous Cushion
Carolyn and the Courageous Cushion

Dec 10, 2021

It Has To Be Felt

This is an article about big concepts affecting the global economy. This a story about four balls I made out of felt. This is a letter written in an alphabet that doesn’t exist. These are some feelings I have on the relationships between abundance, scarcity, partnership and domination. 2 x 2 Matrices are Dumb I tried…

Abundance

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It Has To Be Felt
It Has To Be Felt

Sep 30, 2021

Truth Before Reconciliation

Dear sister and brother white settlers, (FN friends, I sense you have way better things to do than deal with the endless task of educating white people so I hope you don’t waste your time and energy here; having said that, anything at all that you wish to correct, criticize…

Reconciliation

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Truth Before Reconciliation
Truth Before Reconciliation

Aug 13, 2021

Adan and Toninho: Decolonizing Regenerative Agriculture

What follows is a transcript of the above recorded dialogue featuring Adan Rodrigo Trolesi Pereira and Antonio (Toninho) Mates Pereira. This is part 2 of a 3-part speaker series piloted by the Global Regeneration CoLab in 2021. (More on this to be posted soon.) As Quilombolas in Brazil they have…

Regeneration

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Adan and Toninho: Decolonizing Regenerative Agriculture
Adan and Toninho: Decolonizing Regenerative Agriculture

Jun 4, 2021

Get inspired by what we can do within our global food systems when we decide to collaborate for the wellbeing of …

The UN’s Imperial Food Systems Summit is the #worstfilmever
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Samantha Suppiah

Wow - thank you for the shout out amidst such a powerful piece!

Wow - thank you for the shout out amidst such a powerful piece!

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Wow - thank you for the shout out amidst such a powerful piece!

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B. Lorraine Smith

B. Lorraine Smith

Recovering #ESG’er; yarn spinner; distance runner; river wanderer; for more: https://blorrainesmith.medium.com/membership or https://www.blorrainesmith.com/

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