Jeremy Leggett

@jeremyleggett.bsky.social

Social entrepreneur, founder of VERTIC, Solarcentury, SolarAid, and most recently Highlands Rewilding. Sometime writer, including of The Carbon War.

Amazing: Kasakula, Malawi goes 100% solar powered 🌞 Every home, school, and clinic now have clean, reliable electricity, thanks to the charity I founded @SolarAid and their community-led Energy-as-a-Service model. Proof that universal energy access is possible now. What a team. 👉🏾 solar-aid.org

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Often In interviews I find I have said only a fraction of what I would like to communicate. This one, with ABC Radio, was different. And I love the comment with which the interviewer, veteran science reporter Robyn Williams, ends it" "hashtag#rewilding works." www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Jeremy Leggett wins US$500,000 Blue Planet Prize - ABC listen

The Blue Planet Prize is presented by the Asahi Glass Foundation of Japan for outstanding achievement in helping provide solutions to global environmental problems.

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I have a huge question as yet unanswered. Why has the insurance industry - so transparently and existentially threatened by climate meltdown - done so pitifully little about it, when so many easy risk abatement options have been open to them for so long: www.linkedin.com/pulse/climat...

Climate meltdown and financial crash: the long tale of warnings ignored

The Financial Times recently published a review by Pilita Clark of the existential threat climate change poses to the insurance industry. https://www.

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With data like this we very much hope to make the monetisation of natural capital for ourselves and our partners, when it comes, trustable. We also hope to contibute to the nascent industry's efforts to make its data trustable.

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Great to host a Nature4Health session with Huntly Youth Club at Beldorney. We enjoyed fire lighting, cooking "doughnuts", learning animal behaviours, tracks & knots with warming spruce tea. Thanks to N4H, Rachel, Barnardo's, & funders of the FIRNS project NatureScot & National Lottery Heritage Fund

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Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

Terrific to see so many people and organisations joining the xodus from Twitter to Bluesky. And really wonderful to see so many alumni of Solarcentury. Such memories, guys. Here's one that I particularly treasure.....

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So hello Bluesky. This is how it starts on this platform, for me. The company I founded, Solarcentury, once co-marketed with Tesla (their EV, our solar roof tiles). I did the first road drive of a Roadster, with a Daily Mail journalist sitting next to me. 16 years on, well, God help us all.....

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