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…

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?) …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…