Andreana "Addy" Drencheva

@addydren.bsky.social

Researches social entrepreneurship and purpose-driven work @King’s College London. Wanderer and wonderer. Gardener in Sheffield.

Imagine: a Palantir company town where everyone’s on gene therapy + ketamine and lives to 200, where each cul-de-sac gets its own nuclear plant and data center, where nobody’s a citizen + everybody’s a customer, where the owners are unregulated but everyone else is governed by Lumon-esque policy!

‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’

The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.

wired.com

Do you conduct management research WITH rather than ON organizations? Are you working with workers, entrepreneurs, activists, or communities to conduct research together? We want to hear from you because we are mapping co-created research in management studies.

Bild

The trial of an oil company SLAPP suit to literally destroy Greenpeace begins today in N. Dakota. Make no mistake this is the iron fist of petrofascism trying to crush our movements to defend water, climate & Native rights. We must all fight back. Action Link in post below. #ClimateSky

Greenpeace Is Going to Trial in $300 Million Suit That Poses Bankruptcy Risk (Gift Article)

In a closely watched case, the owner of the Dakota Access Pipeline is claiming the environmental group masterminded protests that hurt the company’s business.

nytimes.com

New project launches today looking at class, the arts and the leadership of some of our biggest institutions. Our analysis shows: Nearly a third (30%) of artistic directors and other creative leaders were educated privately compared with a UK average of 7%. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn

Exclusive: Analysis by the Guardian shows a third of major arts leaders were educated privately

theguardian.com

Offsets are mostly a scam, and nobody should be talking about them as an alternative to emissions reductions. High quality offsets with verification are very expensive, but that's not what most people are buying. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Great Cash-for-Carbon Hustle

Offsetting has been hailed as a fix for runaway emissions and climate change—but the market’s largest firm sold millions of credits for carbon reductions that weren’t real.

newyorker.com

"Oil and gas companies are the most active acquirers of climate tech startups. According to research by Sightline Climate, Shell made the most acquisitions globally between 2020 and 2024, buying up 8 companies. That was followed by BP, which snapped up 7" sifted.eu/articles/cli...

a graphic showing who bought the startups - mostly og companies

What's the polite version of "Did you read the paper?!" in response to a reviewer's multiple comments? Asking for a friend. That friend is me. Yes, I acknowledge that sometimes the issue is the quality of our own writing as authors and we are in a peer review crisis.

I am developing a resource hub for our doctoral researchers in sustainable business. Where do you go to connect, learn, and grow? Seeking recommendations for networks, training, reading groups, or regular events that have enriched your research practice. Will share once we have a list.

two penguins holding ice cream cones with the words sharing is caring written below them

ALT: two penguins holding ice cream cones with the words sharing is caring written below them

media.tenor.com

I am developing a resource hub for our doctoral researchers in sustainable business. Where do you go to connect, learn, and grow? Seeking recommendations for networks, training, reading groups, or regular events that have enriched your research practice. Will share once we have a list.

two penguins holding ice cream cones with the words sharing is caring written below them

ALT: two penguins holding ice cream cones with the words sharing is caring written below them

media.tenor.com

The UK has the worst paternity leave offer in Europe. Glad that Luke Charters MP is raising this issue in the Commons today. We found increasing statutory paternity leave to a better paid 6 weeks offer could boost the UK Economy by over £2bn in the near term. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Improving Paternity Leave Provisions Could Boost The Economy By £2.6bn

Expanding the statutory level of paternity leave for fathers could deliver £2.6bn of long-term growth to the UK economy, according to new research.

politicshome.com