Executive Summary
In November 2025, the Australian Parliament enacted a transformative suite of environmental legislation, fundamentally reshaping the Commonwealth’s approach to biodiversity conservation, project assessment,...
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) stands at a pivotal juncture, poised for a decade of unprecedented evolution. This report reflects on AI's projected trajectory by 2035,...
AI warfare: autonomous weapons, cyber attacks, and algorithmic targeting transform modern conflict. What moral boundaries must we establish before war becomes fully automated?
1. Historical Baseline
Pre-1750 Wilderness Extent
South America contained 1.7 billion acres of wilderness in 1500—95% of the continent's land area.¹ The Amazon basin alone...
When Revolutionary Observation Transforms Pedagogy
In January 1907, something extraordinary unfolded in Rome's impoverished San Lorenzo district—a physician's experimental classroom for sixty slum children would...
1. Historical Baseline
Pre-1750 Wilderness Extent
North America contained 3.9 billion acres of wilderness when Europeans first arrived—98% of the continent's land area.¹ From Arctic tundra...
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Birds, with their vibrant plumage, melodious songs, and breathtaking aerial acrobatics, have captivated...
The Quiet Takeover of the Global Diet
The modern global diet is undergoing a quiet, pervasive transformation, one driven not by nutritional science or consumer...
In an era of splintered supply chains, tariff crossfire, and fraying trust, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development looks, at first glance, like...
Clean energy is booming, yet emissions keep breaking records. A clear-eyed 2026 look at climate action—what's working, what's failing, and what it will take.
GREEN CITIES SERIES | ARTICLE 8
Every Sunday, Bogotá returns the streets to its people. That act — repeated for fifty years, in a city of nine million at 2,600 metres above sea level, in a country still reckoning with decades of violence — is both a practical...
GREEN CITY SERIES| ARTICLE 11
How river daylighting changed the argument in South Korea’s capital — and why the harder work of a green city lies beyond one celebrated stream
Few urban projects have entered the global planning imagination as forcefully as Seoul’s restoration of the Cheonggyecheon. The removal...
GREEN CITIES SERIES | ARTICLE 9
For fifty years, urban planners have travelled to Curitiba to study what happened when a young architect-mayor decided that a city was not, fundamentally, for cars. What they found was real, was replicable, and was also — when examined carefully — more...
This is an updated and revised version of a piece that I published last year. Regrettably, all is not well in the golden valley of apricots when it comes to climate change reversal, it just keeps getting hotter and the weather wilder. All is not lost though...
In May 2026, the international climate arena presents a striking paradox. It is alive, highly active, and structurally transformed, yet it remains profoundly underpowered relative to the physical systems it seeks to govern. The institutional architecture established by the Paris Agreement has not collapsed; on the contrary,...
GREEN CITIES SERIES | ARTICLE 6
London has done something that most cities only talk about: it has used road pricing to change behaviour at scale, and it has used air quality regulation to drive a measurable improvement in the health of nine million people. But the city...
How Norway’s capital turned climate policy into budgets, procurement, and quieter streets — and why even Oslo is not yet a finished green city
Standfirst
Oslo is often invoked as proof that urban decarbonisation can move from aspiration to administration. The Norwegian capital has electrified large parts of its...
Amsterdam is the city that other cities dream of becoming. Its cycling culture is imitated on every continent; its canal ecology has been recovered from near-death to become a European benchmark; its commitment to public space and human-scale urbanism has generated a literature of admiration so extensive...
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