The Hames Report

Over the past few months I have received numerous requests that I devote some considered commentary to recent events in my adopted country. Until now I have refrained from making any public statements. Like anyone living here it is almost...

A speech given to an invited audience of the world’s wealthiest citizens held in the Maldives on 1st January 2015 Your Holiness. Your Royal Highnesses. My Lords. Excellencies. Distinguished Members. Ladies and Gentlemen. It is a pleasure to welcome you,...

Danses: The past year was not just one of economic turmoil. Across our increasingly hot and crowded planet people are reacting in sundry, yet mostly conventional ways, to the effects of global heating. Politicians, too, are feeling the heat. And...

Are you quite sure you don’t mind giving this interview? I turned my attention to the monitor, or more precisely, to the young woman on it. She was new to Al Jazirra and had obviously been told I rarely gave...

Throughout my 35 years in sustainability it has always seemed odd that while so-called economic rationalism reigned over our political, economic and business worlds, rational thought wasn’t applied to issues like climate change. The risks were always clear, as defined...

As Lily and Bart enter the polling station to cast their votes for the bioregional council elections of Gippsland they are assailed by a plethora of party volunteers. A throng of partisan hands clamour to re-program their hologram ‘how-to-vote’ cards...

Throughout my 35 years in sustainability it has always seemed odd that while so-called economic rationalism reigned over our political, economic and business worlds, rational thought wasn’t applied to issues like climate change. The risks were always clear, as defined...

“It’s great to be back home, even if it is only for a few days”. Finn had just arrived back from Shanghai, recently awarded the prestigious World’s Greenest City prize by the World Forum over previous winner Sorokovka, Chelyabinsk in...

One of the toughest things for people to do is to anticipate sudden change. Typically we project the future by extrapolating from trends in the past. Much of the time this approach works well. But sometimes it fails spectacularly, and...

Breathe In... I have never felt the urge not to change. The impetus to ‘stay put’ or to ‘play safe’ is foreign to my nature. In truth, it offends me. Curiosity - about new ideas, people and places - is...