Today on the 2nd Renaissance I sit down with Kwala ethical investment app co-founder and Gunditjmara woman, Dr Patrice Newell. We decode what the western world can learn from ancestral and age-old wisdoms of sustainable land management, the cross-fertilisation of agricultural management to the world of investing, what she has learnt about agriculture and investings as an active organic farmer and entrepreneur, how she ‘farms with her ancestors watching’, the rise of regenerative agriculture and biosequestration, and how her passion topic of biochar may play a role in Project Drawdown, and why an ethical investment app may be one small step towards a more equitable tomorrow in alignment with the UN SDGs.

A few words on pedigree…

An Aboriginal Australian with a PhD in alternative energy, Dr. Newell was honoured with an Order of Australia for her services to agriculture and the environment. Patrice is a farmer, best-selling author, bee-keeper, podcaster, academic and environmental advocate. Dr Newell produces certified organic food on her 10,000 acre property.  Australia’s poor response to our climate emergency has triggered the creation of kwala as a simple tool to help people invest directly in companies that take climate change and social equity seriously and address the 17 UN Sustainability Goals. The Kwala app enables micro-investments in global companies addressing the environmental, social and technological challenges of today. Her latest book is Who’s Minding the Farm in this Climate Emergency.

Quick disclosure: Make sure you do your own research and speak to your financial advisor to see whether sustainable investments is for you. This is not a product plug. I found the conversation with Dr Patrice Newell illuminating and her lived experience an incredible pretext to her finding herself at the intersection of of Sustainability and Fintech and trust you will too.

Today on the 2nd Renaissance I sit down with Kwala ethical investment app co-founder and Gunditjmara woman, Dr Patrice Newell. We decode what the western world can learn from ancestral and age-old wisdoms of sustainable land management, the cross-fertilisation of agricultural management to the world of investing, what she has learnt about agriculture and investings as an active organic farmer and entrepreneur, how she ‘farms with her ancestors watching’, the rise of regenerative agriculture and biosequestration, and how her passion topic of biochar may play a role in Project Drawdown, and why an ethical investment app may be one small step towards a more equitable tomorrow in alignment with the UN SDGs.
A few words on pedigree…
An Aboriginal Australian with a PhD in alternative energy, Dr. Newell was honoured with an Order of Australia for her services to agriculture and the environment. Patrice is a farmer, best-selling author, bee-keeper, podcaster, academic and environmental advocate. Dr Newell produces certified organic food on her 10,000 acre property.  Australia’s poor response to our climate emergency has triggered the creation of kwala as a simple tool to help people invest directly in companies that take climate change and social equity seriously and address the 17 UN Sustainability Goals. The Kwala app enables micro-investments in global companies addressing the environmental, social and technological challenges of today. Her latest book is Who’s Minding the Farm in this Climate Emergency.
Quick disclosure: Make sure you do your own research and speak to your financial advisor to see whether sustainable investments is for you. This is not a product plug. I found the conversation with Dr Patrice Newell illuminating and her lived experience an incredible pretext to her finding herself at the intersection of of Sustainability and Fintech and trust you will too.

We are at the early dawn of a 2nd Renaissance and explosion of human creativity and entrepreneurship, driven by exponential technologies and a rise in humanism. In this second season, global futurist Anders Sörman-Nilsson deciphers why now is the most significant entrepreneurial opportunity since the dawn of industrialisation and what leaders can do to harness the winds of change. This new season features various interviews with innovators, activists, investors, and thought leaders who are helping us build a sustainable future.

We are at the early dawn of a 2nd Renaissance and explosion of human creativity and entrepreneurship, driven by exponential technologies and a rise in humanism. In this second season, global futurist Anders Sörman-Nilsson deciphers why now is the most significant entrepreneurial opportunity since the dawn of industrialisation and what leaders can do to harness the winds of change. This new season features various interviews with innovators, activists, investors, and thought leaders who are helping us build a sustainable future.

2nd Renaissance with Anders Sörman-Nilsson

Exploring the world that is, to understand the world that could be.

Exploring the world that is, to understand the world that could be.

Dr Patrice Newell AM, Kwala "Unveiling the Wisdom of Sustainable Land Management: An Indigenous Woman's Journey as a Farmer and Ethical Investor"

In this episode of the 2nd Renaissance, Danish architect Lasse Lind pays a visit to the Thinque studio. Lasse’s specialisation is in the Circular Economy and Sustainable Architecture, and we sit down to explore some of their marquee projects like the new Sydney Fish Markets and, Denmark’s and Australia’s design love affair, what Lasse means by circular, behavioural and digital designs, how sustainable architecture can help lower the emissions of the construction industry which is currently responsible for 1/3rd of the world’s emissions, biomimicry, closed-loop circularity, GXN’s canary in the coal-mine, Lasse’s design mentors and inspirations, and how Lasse’s childhood in Danish nature has shaped his aesthetic, use of light and power-generating materials. It was an illuminating conversation and it opened my eyes to how sustainable form and function can not only beautify our urban environment, but also make a significant environmental contribution when our buildings - in the words of Lasse - become cognitive…

A few words on pedigree…

Lasse Lind is an architect and partner at GXN and 3XN architects in Copenhagen, where he is Head of Consultancy. He studied in Prague, Damascus and at the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture in Hovedstaden, and specialises in sustainability and the circular economy in the construction industry. He also teaches as a guest lecturer at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg.

In this episode of the 2nd Renaissance, Danish architect Lasse Lind pays a visit to the Thinque studio. Lasse’s specialisation is in the Circular Economy and Sustainable Architecture, and we sit down to explore some of their marquee projects like the new Sydney Fish Markets and, Denmark’s and Australia’s design love affair, what Lasse means by circular, behavioural and digital designs, how sustainable architecture can help lower the emissions of the construction industry which is currently responsible for 1/3rd of the world’s emissions, biomimicry, closed-loop circularity, GXN’s canary in the coal-mine, Lasse’s design mentors and inspirations, and how Lasse’s childhood in Danish nature has shaped his aesthetic, use of light and power-generating materials. It was an illuminating conversation and it opened my eyes to how sustainable form and function can not only beautify our urban environment, but also make a significant environmental contribution when our buildings - in the words of Lasse - become cognitive…
A few words on pedigree…
Lasse Lind is an architect and partner at GXN and 3XN architects in Copenhagen, where he is Head of Consultancy. He studied in Prague, Damascus and at the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture in Hovedstaden, and specialises in sustainability and the circular economy in the construction industry. He also teaches as a guest lecturer at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg.

Lasse Lind, 3XN - "Designing for the Circular Future: A Conversation on Sustainable Architecture".

In today’s episode of the 2nd Renaissance I welcome Simon Holmes a Court into the Thinque studio to decode the disruptive innovation movement of the ‘Teal Independents’. 

We uncover how social technologies combined with a communitarian ethos to win hearts and minds of disenfranchised voters, Simon’s childhood influences on his socially-minded entrepreneurial approach to building a conscious movement, why he asks to be ‘judged by the enemies he has made’ and what it says about him, whether we are reaching a tipping point in the renewable energy mix, how to outpace the competition dollar-for-dollar with a Silicon Valley approach to digital communication technologies, and other good - green - news stories from the vanguard of Climate200.

A few words on pedigree…

Simon Holmes a Court is a senior advisor to the Climate and Energy College at Melbourne University and convenor and founder of Climate200 - a community crowd-funded initiative that supports political candidates committed to: A science-based response to the climate crisis; Restoring integrity to politics; and Advancing gender equity. Simon is also a cleantech investor, climate philanthropist and a director of the Smart Energy Council and the Australian Environmental Grant-Makers Network. Simon is the author of The Big Teal - sharing the story of how enormous change happened at the 2022 Australian federal election. The Big Teal is the story of how a team of inspired young tech-heads and older sages used their real and virtual-world experience to help a cluster of communities get the representation they wanted and create measurable progress towards a Net Zero Carbon economy - in Australia and beyond.

In today’s episode of the 2nd Renaissance I welcome Simon Holmes a Court into the Thinque studio to decode the disruptive innovation movement of the ‘Teal Independents’. 
We uncover how social technologies combined with a communitarian ethos to win hearts and minds of disenfranchised voters, Simon’s childhood influences on his socially-minded entrepreneurial approach to building a conscious movement, why he asks to be ‘judged by the enemies he has made’ and what it says about him, whether we are reaching a tipping point in the renewable energy mix, how to outpace the competition dollar-for-dollar with a Silicon Valley approach to digital communication technologies, and other good - green - news stories from the vanguard of Climate200.
A few words on pedigree…
Simon Holmes a Court is a senior advisor to the Climate and Energy College at Melbourne University and convenor and founder of Climate200 - a community crowd-funded initiative that supports political candidates committed to: A science-based response to the climate crisis; Restoring integrity to politics; and Advancing gender equity. Simon is also a cleantech investor, climate philanthropist and a director of the Smart Energy Council and the Australian Environmental Grant-Makers Network. Simon is the author of The Big Teal - sharing the story of how enormous change happened at the 2022 Australian federal election. The Big Teal is the story of how a team of inspired young tech-heads and older sages used their real and virtual-world experience to help a cluster of communities get the representation they wanted and create measurable progress towards a Net Zero Carbon economy - in Australia and beyond.

Simon Holmes à Court, Climate 200 - "Changing the Climate: Disruptive Innovation, Ethos, and Harnessing Pent-Up Energy"

In today’s episode of the 2nd Renaissance, Jacqui Scruby visits the Thinque Studio. Jacqui is the Teal Independent candidate for Pittwater, Sydney in the 2023 New South Wales elections and as a local resident in this magic peninsula that I call home, I have personally really been looking forward to this deep and meaningful with one of our resident polymaths - Jacqui Scruby. The topics we touch on are global in nature, but local in their implications and whether you are an international or national listener or a fellow Pittwater resident, I believe this conversation has so much savoir-faire on the state of the world and what we would like it to become.

In this conversation, we decode how Jacqui’s professional background and childhood converged at this moment in time to set her up to run on a platform of climate, integrity, and gender equality, what she learnt about disruptive innovation from working alongside Dr Sophie Scamps and other independent female voices in national politics, her war on plastic waste, Jacqui’s views on the Circular Economy, how the green transition can be accelerated, the trust-busting effects of greenwashing, the dichotomy of the world’s largest coal-exporting port sitting just north of the Ku-Ring-Gai national park, the importance of conservation, and her futuristic vision for Sydney’s northern beaches in 2030.  

A few words on pedigree…

Jacqui Scruby is an environmental lawyer, management consultant, serial entrepreneur, medical science graduate, climate change warrior and mum. Most recently she was an advisor to the independent federal Member of Parliament, Dr Sophie Scamps. She is running for the seat of Pittwater and has already asserted real world influence with the incumbent government torpedoing gas exploration off the coast of Sydney because of the rise of environmental consciousness in the local community. She is looking forward to continuing to champion the issues of climate, integrity and gender equality and to ensuring that we do not see another ‘lost decade’ on climate action.

Welcome to the 2nd Renaissance, Jacqui.

In today’s episode of the 2nd Renaissance, Jacqui Scruby visits the Thinque Studio. Jacqui is the Teal Independent candidate for Pittwater, Sydney in the 2023 New South Wales elections and as a local resident in this magic peninsula that I call home, I have personally really been looking forward to this deep and meaningful with one of our resident polymaths - Jacqui Scruby. The topics we touch on are global in nature, but local in their implications and whether you are an international or national listener or a fellow Pittwater resident, I believe this conversation has so much savoir-faire on the state of the world and what we would like it to become.
In this conversation, we decode how Jacqui’s professional background and childhood converged at this moment in time to set her up to run on a platform of climate, integrity, and gender equality, what she learnt about disruptive innovation from working alongside Dr Sophie Scamps and other independent female voices in national politics, her war on plastic waste, Jacqui’s views on the Circular Economy, how the green transition can be accelerated, the trust-busting effects of greenwashing, the dichotomy of the world’s largest coal-exporting port sitting just north of the Ku-Ring-Gai national park, the importance of conservation, and her futuristic vision for Sydney’s northern beaches in 2030.  
A few words on pedigree…
Jacqui Scruby is an environmental lawyer, management consultant, serial entrepreneur, medical science graduate, climate change warrior and mum. Most recently she was an advisor to the independent federal Member of Parliament, Dr Sophie Scamps. She is running for the seat of Pittwater and has already asserted real world influence with the incumbent government torpedoing gas exploration off the coast of Sydney because of the rise of environmental consciousness in the local community. She is looking forward to continuing to champion the issues of climate, integrity and gender equality and to ensuring that we do not see another ‘lost decade’ on climate action.
Welcome to the 2nd Renaissance, Jacqui.

Dr Patrice Newell AM, Kwala "Unveiling the Wisdom of Sustainable Land Management: An Indigenous Woman's Journey as a Farmer and Ethical Investor"

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