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Here is a selection of op-eds, news articles and speaking appearances featuring my views on topics like impact investing, mission-driven communications and greenwashing.

AlphaWeek: Private Equity Needs to Step Up Its Game to Address Systemic Risks

ESG Investor: Public Pension Plans Face up to Politicisation

FundFire: Private Equity Scores Poorly on Climate, Race Issue Ratings

FundFire: The Most Common Excuses that Hedge Funds Use to Avoid ESG — and Why They Are Wrong

ImpactAlpha: How to stop ‘astroturf’ campaigns and the spread of misinformation

ImpactAlpha: More Agents of Impact answer the call for new tools to reshape finance

Impact Entrepreneur: Catan's New Board Game Offers Important Lessons on Sustainability

Impact Entrepreneur: Creative Due Diligence

Impact Entrepreneur: Disrupting the Cultural Infrastructure of Fossil Fuels

Impact Entrepreneur: Fighting Gaslighting with Greenshouting

Impact Entrepreneur: Laughing Through the Climate Crisis

Impact Entrepreneur: Thanks to Climate Change, Sports Will Never Be the Same

Impact Entrepreneur: The Future of Impact Finance Begins in the Classroom

Impact Entrepreneur: The New Rules of Climate Narratives

Impact Entrepreneur: What if Profit Accounted for Harm?

New Private Markets: Why we should take the attacks on ESG more seriously

Proximate: Can Impact Measurement Account for Lived Experiences?

Proximate: Reimagining the Playbook for Communities Seeking Private Investment

Proximate: How Two Growing Communities Attracted Capital for Affordable Housing

 

Pop Impact is my column with ImpactAlpha where I write about the creative economy and publish reviews of films, documentaries and TV shows based on their portrayal of sustainability concepts.

Impact Oscars 2026: The movies that made a difference

Sinners (2025): With ‘Sinners,’ Ryan Coogler demonstrates the power of creative ownership

Nonnas (2025): A family dinner as an impact investment

The Lost Bus (2025): When climate disaster hits home 

Black Snow (2025): The real costs of cheap energy

Trade Secret (2025): Extinction as a business opportunity

Out of Plain Sight (2025): Shining a light on the toxic legacy of DDT

UNEARTH (2025) Standing up to polluters, and power

Chasing Time (2025): Visualizing Earth’s vanishing glaciers

Oceania: Journey to the Center (2025)

The Fisherman (2024) nets laughs while tackling overfishing and life in a changing world

Room for Us? (2025) Pulls back the curtain on Nantucket’s affordable housing crisis

Twisters (2024): We should listen to the scientists

Toxic Town (2025): What’s a finger or toe really worth?

Ocean (2025): A powerful case for marine conservation and global cooperation

Black Mirror (2011-2025): A reflection of our not-too-distant future

Mountainhead (2025): The techno-utopia nobody asked for

Secret Mall Apartment (2024): Affordable housing as performance art

Greenhouse Effect: The Avengers movie Marvel should have made

Severance (2025): Work-life imbalance

Mickey17 (2025): Expendable workers

Common Side Effects (2025): Cure everybody and you’re out of business

Paradise (2025—): More ****еd than anyone realizes

Silo (2023—): Needs of the many require the sacrifices of the few

The Wild Robot (2024): Tugging at your heartstrings

Flow (2024): One cat’s journey in a lost world