The world needs ethical, environmental and entrepreneurial leaders
With climate change and resource scarcity reaching tipping point and the global economy flat-lining, Simon Leadbetter asks, where have all the 'leaders' gone? In times of great crisis, great leaders emerge to help us, the 'followers', reach a brighter and better tomorrow; from overthrowing fascism in the 1940s to facing...
Green Dragon: Ben Goldsmith
David Tebbutt meets the environmental entrepreneur What if we dug out and burned all the hydrocarbons buried in the ground? "Then we'd be toast."Thus ended a conversation with the delightful Ben Goldsmith, a man with remarkable clarity of thought and purpose. At thirty...
Green Dragon: Julian Parrott
Lori Heaford uncovers Parrott’s passion for punk. Julian Parrott is an interesting man: an independent financial adviser specialising in ethical investment; a keen activist in the development of ethical finance; and a punk. If the punk era taught us anything, it’s the value of getting involved to make a difference...
Green Dragon: Stewart Brand
David Tebbutt gets to know this profound thinker, iconoclast and provocateur. Stewart Brand is a man who discovers paradigms, figures out how to shift them and then does it. Being born in 1938 gave him a certain advantage. While the sixties generation was still finding...
Green Dragon – Juliet Davenport
Juliet Davenport – CEO Good Energy In 1999, with environmental consultancy ESD, Juliet set up the company that would become Good Energy. She became CEO in 2000 and, following the first share offering in 2002, saw over 600 customers buying into her idea. That extra finance bought a wind...
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