Impact Capitalism: An Exploitative Partnership — illuminem
Article contributed to illuminem as part of my Reclaiming Entrepreneurship series. *** “It’s just a very competitive and inhumane environment that we […]
Article contributed to illuminem as part of my Reclaiming Entrepreneurship series. *** “It’s just a very competitive and inhumane environment that we […]
Article contributed to illuminem as part of my Reclaiming Entrepreneurship series. *** Food waste alone is estimated to be responsible for emissions
Article contributed to illuminem as part of my Reclaiming Entrepreneurship series. *** Over decades venture capitalism has forcibly separated entrepreneurship from ethics,
Democratisation is a lovely word. It sounds nice. A bit of a mouthful true, but fresh and crunchy like its
Article contributed to Degrowth UK as part of their Prospects for Degrowth series. Photo by Alice Dietrich on Unsplash
A big part of any startup pitch is some kind of guess as to how big the potential target market
What’s happening with Automattic and Wordpress at the moment is a perfect illustration of why capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with
The idea that corporate supply chains can be made sustainable is a core part of political and corporate net zero
Opportunity cost refers to the loss of potential received value by choosing to not do something or by choosing a
Whether you’re investing your time or your money (or someone else’s money) in impact work designed to address, mitigate, or
A growing sector of climate tech and green investments is concerned with what can best be described as “upgrading nature”.
Climate Performance Potential, or variants thereof, is the “in” term for measuring the investability of a climate startup. Although there
We need to invest less and compost more to start harvesting meaningful climate outcomes. Financial investments into startups, including climate
I am not using the term “bullshit” for shock value. I am referencing David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs Theory where he
80 climate startup pitch decks on my desktop. 58 claim they will be doing things at scale. Most of the
In 2021 I watched aghast as Nacho Gimenez, then Managing Partner of BP Ventures, spoke to a packed room about
Here’s a dilemma. What if the thing you’re good at is not needed? What if your hard-earned skills are making
Originally published in The Shift, May 2024. Malta is in the grip of an epidemic of ecological grief born out
In September 2021 I boarded a train to Cambridge to join Carbon13’s second Climate Tech cohort. Carbon13 is a venture
Why Alexei Dingli’s artificial intelligence system will not only not improve Malta’s traffic problems. It will make it exponentially worse.