@donnaokell
Working hard to build a cleaner, greener, fairer world. Inspiring and empowering business leaders to be courageous, compassionate, committed, and collaborative. CEO @UK for Good, B Leader, Speaker, Impact Business and B Corp Consultant
We’re doing nowhere near enough, or fast enough.
We are not safe.
We are in an emergency.
We need clear, compassionate, courageous leadership to make the radical change so desperately needed before it really is too late.
#CANBill
🌿 Great to see @earlrussell.bsky.social pressing the Government to respond to the Nature Security Assessment. Their response? We are doing enough.
🌍 The reality? We're not. Write to your MP today and make the Govt respond properly with what new steps they will take.
👉 action.zerohour.uk/nsa
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Said activist James Baldwin.
And that’s the whole point of the @nebriefing.bsky.social .
We HAVE to face the truth, accept, adapt, and act….urgently, courageously, and compassionately.
#courageousLeadership
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glenn-vowles-a6b61a388_see-the-reply-from-my-mp-in-bristol-activity-7416987108285947904-_yYD/
A friend pointed me to a post on social media of a letter by Kerry McCarthy MP (Labour, Bristol East) about a request for a televised emergency briefing on the #ClimateEmergency
I was stunned by how casually the idea & its urgency were dismissed. Let’s unpack why this response is so wrong-headed 🧵
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social & @rory-stewart.bsky.social unfortunately couldn’t make the National Emergency Briefing.
Would they consider having @mikebernerslee.bsky.social on #Leading?🙏
Mike chaired the NEB and sets out the threats - and the choices ahead - with exceptional clarity.
#NEB2025
@mikebernerslee.bsky.social would be a superb guest for #Leading .
He chaired the National Emergency Briefing and sets out the risks and our choices with exceptional clarity. Timely, grounded, essential listening for this moment. 🙏@alastaircambell2.bskyb.social and @rory-stewart.bsky.social
Insects seem to be swarming all around us, so it's no wonder we don't seem to to notice that they're disappearing at a rate of 2% per year. And this has massive implications, as environmental journalist Oliver Milman explains.
‘Gross abuse of state power’: defiance grows over UK ban on Palestine protest group
At 81, Deborah Hinton, a former British magistrate who was honoured by the late Queen Elizabeth II for services to the community, seems an unlikely terrorist suspect.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Myth #9: Humans are rational decision-makers
Reality: We act from emotion, status, and social cues
Implication: Models built for robots will fail real people
Earth Overshoot Day arrived earlier than ever this year.The late Prof. Herman Daly once asked:
“Where’s the ‘when to stop’ point? Where’s the Plimsoll Line?”
We’ve already crossed the line.
Time to act with real courage, and compassion.
🧭 Read the full piece here:
🔗 www.linkedin.com/company/ukfo...
They say a picture paints a thousand words.
This is a superb illustration of the climate and nature crisis we’re facing. Super-helpful to use with your TL;DR and climate denier connections.
Thank you team @ECIU.
Indicators of Global Climate Change 2025
The latest climate science at a glance — all the key metrics, in one infographic.
eciu.net/analysis/in...
Your 'double bonus moment of doom' for today:
"The team concludes with a sentiment that is becoming more common in this field: It may be worse than we think. It’s not an uplifting thought, but one that should be confronted"
www.404media.co/scientists-r...
Herman Daly, a prominent ecological economist, used the analogy of a ship's Plimsoll line to illustrate the concept of an ecologically sustainable economy. We need to agree:
Where’s the ‘when to stop’ point?
We’ve long passed the ‘when to stop ‘ point and are now slowly, and surely, drowning .
Only a matter of time before a wildfire wipes a major city from the face of the planet
Will people sit up and take notice then?
Will governments and fossil fuel corporations act to slash emissions?
Will they hell
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
The Open Championship must not give in to the UK government's lobbying and allow Donald Trump to host one of the world's biggest, oldest and respected golf tournaments at any of the golf courses he owns in the UK.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
From the intellectual & ecological to the spiritual & psychological, these ideas might be considered waypoints for navigating the human predicament, and – in aggregate – help build ‘scout teams’ of humans working on the upcoming cultural transition away from infinite material expansion.
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
Intentional, stupid and criminal
This will cost many lives and the new CEO should join previous ones on trial
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
From today, Govt only has 100 days to publish a new climate plan, a task made infinitely more difficult by its own approval of rampant airport expansion.
How credible can any climate plan possibly be with a third runway at Heathrow and the most expensive train tickets in Europe?
In the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, I reflect on how nature protection needs to be stronger. And that we must stop destroying elements of nature we're also trying to restore
#Biodiversity #PIB
The boiling frog analogy playing out in real time.
The wealthiest 1%will fight hard to keep us all doing what we’ve always done, at whatever cost…to people and our planet.
That needs to change and fast.
This was NOT unexpected
There were 4 warnings/alerts for this event, starting Wednesday afternoon
The forecasters got it right, but the local authorities/disaster responders did not do enough - if anything - to warn those in danger
This was NOT inevitable
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
There’s been surprisingly little attention paid to a basic question: do we even have the technical capability to guide where any of this is headed?
And if not, should we slow the pace of innovation until we better understand how these complex systems actually work?
Three years ago, my team and I created a 30-minute movie that provides a comprehensive systems analysis of the human predicament. This beautifully animated film aims to help viewers understand the interconnected crises defining our era.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xr9...
The Government's proposed #cuts to #disability benefits, threaten to push 290k people in #yorkshire into deeper poverty, losing up to £5,700 annually
We need local campaigns now, so the voices of those that these cuts affects, are heard.
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk #WelfareCuts #TaxTheRich
We are sleepwalking into this catastrophe.
AI is dominating our children’s lives and removing the need to read, write,and most importantly, to think.
This is the cohesive and controlling behaviour of billionaires we are normalising. A superb insight from @natehagens.bsky.social
