Graham Sinclair
@esgarchitect
Long term investor. Sustainable investment strategist. Professor. Confuter. “The free market is cool until you need a regulated market.” - @marcaross. Mr Rogers was better. Personal views, usual disclaimers. #investment #sustainability #strategy
Strongly recommend the story and facts about a burning planet in @johnvaillant.bsky.social’s excellent “Fire Weather: A true story from a hotter world”. Apposite given the drama in Alberta, and the provenance of the author.
“The golden age of corruption” would’ve been more eloquent headline, above fold in today’s @ftweekend.com. British understatement instead: “Trump’s posts pitched at $100,000; fee sought from market players; ultrafast “Truth Social” feed; Investors and traders riled”. Financebros cool with this?
The answer is “Speedo”. To always be ready to swim after work. Best worn when celebrating your winning the World Cup.
Late afternoon sun over the green mountains around Bennington VT yesterday. I thought I’d adapted to the levels of climate grief. This hovering where the free clean air should have been, forced a hole in my soul. Knowing it’s not the last. Knowing the profit-seekers and power-grabbers make it so.
Recommend Shoshana Zuboff’s “The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism” from 2019. AI proliferation has just hyperscaled it. #capitalism #surveillancecapitalism #surveillance #investment
Cue private equity bros sweeping in to buy up any part of this link in the value chain in exhibit x/n of chokepoint capitalism. Rebecca Giblin and @doctorow.pluralistic.net explained the choke method in digital economy 4 years ago now… What will investors do differently this time?
This post inspired by Dame Maureen Lipman's closing comments in the interview by Gyles Brandreth on the #Rosebud podcast 50th episode. www.rosebudpodcast.co.uk/archive/maur...
Solid tech common in Southern Africa. Aim to return to leafy suburbs west of Philly. Only clothes on line I’ve seen was last night driving thru Amish farm country near Morgantown.
Bafana Bafana you biscuits! Jabulani mini-ball from 2010 made it possible! Amandla! Yebo! Eish! Hamba phambile!
So Mainline moms (mostly) can “safely” drive junior around in cocoon of 3 tons of unwieldy steel. May then walk up and stare at lacrosse practice so no one else can see. Giant lumps for tiny humans. Tahoe Yukon Escalade Wagoneer G[rocery]-wagen QX80 X7 Time to remove power steering as default.
Why would you need a “V8 biturbo” in your estate car in suburban Philly? Your new mattress atrophying? Your case of Stella Artois getting warm? Your 36 pack triple ply toilet paper yellowing? What could possibly require this giant fossil fuel engine? Q for @willbunch.bsky.social newsletter…
My front yard local. Lots of leaf litter left to keep soil most and to generate new soil as bugs and earthworms do their thing. Have not tried water feature. How to stop it being mosquito larvae nursery?
Affirming Mr Hockney was a good egg, this article headline from a lesser newspaper: “David Hockney (87) wants his biggest ever show to bring you joy.”
2026 VILLANOVA INTERNATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE Responding to the Cries of the Earth and the Poor October 12-15, 2026 The Patristicum, Rome, Italy October 12–15, 2026. www.villanova.edu/university/s... #Villanova #sustainability #encyclical #PopeLeo #humanitas #caritas #veritas
Hoping for more of this kind of conversation on markets, humans, and investment choices at Villanova U global sustainability conference win Rome in October. Call for abstracts currently open thru 30 June. Bring your brain, experience, and soul. From wherever you are. #Villanova #humanitas
There’s a kids story in the “I survived” series by Lauren Tarshis that brought this to our lives while still living in Boston area. Never did go to the North End to find approximate spot. Good read.
Now I need to find the study of how nature sounds helped patients recover and heal better. Hearing the dawn chorus of birds through the closed window in the inky pre-dawn, I’m uplifted. Even by the mourning doves! Surely healthy and health-repairing. To the body, mind, and soul. Good twitter.
Gravity, rocks, wind and water playing 15 miles west of Philadelphia. I do not worship Nature. But I deeply appreciate and value it. In my bones. In my soul, spirit and body. I share it with you here because even in digital form, it reminds.
We see you. The hydrangeas are past their prime at the local coffee shop, a bit like the US in this period. Every day we wait to hear from free Kyiv. On any route home there’s at least one home waving your hopeful flag. All is not as it should be, and will be again. You are not alone.
The car on the left carries 4 pax is a battery electric urban solution for American towns where sidewalks and bike lanes are somehow not American enough. The truck on the right carries 5 pax, is running their very large petrol engine, and needs 1.8x the space to park, an chooses throwaway cups.
And humans are disincentived to recycle, by poor infrastructure, and the absence of externalities aversion, exhibit x/n: The only trash bin at this entrance, with lid missing, filled with recyclable materials.
Better is possible, exhibit x/n: Shelter bike storage at entrance to commuter train 30min from DC at Innovation Center stop on silver line in northern VA.