We are delighted to announce that applications are now open for the Oxygen Accelerator, an innovative venture programme designed to support entrepreneurs building the rural businesses that will transform the future of conservation in the UK. Scaling Conservation across an…
Spring 2026
Peatlands cover just 3% of the world’s land area, yet store at least 550 billion tonnes of carbon, more than all the world’s forests combined. Formed over millennia under waterlogged conditions, peat soils lock carbon away on geological timescales, making…
Spring 2026
When restoring land, one question returns again and again: When do we step back and let nature run its course, and when do we step in to protect what’s already there? This balance between allowing change, even stepping in to…
Spring 2026
I don’t post much. Partly because I’ve been so busy, and partly because I wasn’t sure I had earned the right to say much yet. I’m still not entirely sure — but two years feels like a reasonable moment to…
Spring 2026
Inverting Performance Management One of my favourite elements of working at Oxygen Conservation is how we deliver performance management. Now, before you recoil in your seat and wonder what this crazy HR person is thinking, bear with me because this…
Spring 2026
Culture gets worse as a company grows. It’s a universally accepted truth. Perhaps even part of the panacea of management truisms like Parkinson’s Law or Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. But is it true? There’s an exception to every rule. A…
Spring 2026
Some landscapes feel alive in an obvious way. Others ask you to slow down before they reveal themselves. Peatlands are like that. I remember, as a boy, stepping out of the wind into a peat hag to have my lunch…
Spring 2026
Have you ever stood in a place so still, so full of possibility, that it felt as though the earth beneath your feet was pausing waiting to see whether you’d be brave enough to help it recover? That was me…
Spring 2026
I spent many happy hours crouched on the bank of a river as a child, peering into the shallows with a net in my hand, heart pounding at what I might find beneath the water’s surface? For me, it began…
Spring 2026
There is a problem at the heart of institutional natural capital investment that almost nobody talks about directly. It is not the policy environment, though that is complex. It is not the absence of institutional appetite, though that has taken…
Spring 2026
Here’s the thing about chaos: it doesn’t destroy value. It reveals where value was never real in the first place. And it forces a reckoning with what has always held value – but that we never bothered to price. Nature.…
Spring 2026
Satya Nadella, CEO at Microsoft theorises that leaders in the age of AI are no longer managing human teams alone, but orchestrating networks of autonomous intelligent systems that work continuously alongside them. He calls it “the management of infinite minds”.…
Spring 2026
