“No, no, no, no, no, no. Sometimes I feel this life is never enough. So much love around me but, I'm stuck in a rut. "No fame, no fortune, just a house in my name, guess I never liked that bitter taste of champagne. Does it get easier?”
“Honestly, one of the easiest ways to massively reduce your carbon and your waste footprint is to stop throwing away food. Now to most people, it's really hard to get your head around how environmentally damaging food waste is, because food seems natural, organic, and it comes from the ground and returns to the ground, sort of how bad can that be. But the reality is, it is absolutely devastating. So if it were to be a country, food waste would be the third largest source of greenhouse gas emissions after the USA and China. And that's because a landmass larger than China is used every single year to grow food that has never been eaten.”
Don't ask what gives you purpose, ask what gives you energy. Listen to this clip from this fantastic recording I had with Shane Ward, agroecologist and founder of Action Ecology. My wife introduced me to this idea. She's an organisational psychologist by training, and has been working in basic development and all these other things, so she came home one day was talking about an exercise that she was involved with where people were asked to try and find one word that described what energised them and for some reason, this captured my thinking in a way that nothing quite like it ever had.
" in 2015, when I did my MBA, I read a book called Frugal Innovation written by Navi Radjou about how Indians create low cost solutions, like baby incubators and fridges using the most limited means. So all of these types of solutions were coming from a place of need, they were solving real problems in the world. And I started to look at what sort of my organisations were doing in terms of innovation. And it felt like they were trying to solve problems for the brand, but not problems for the world. And I thought, This is not what we need to be doing here. Like there needs to be a real change in how we approach solving problems."