5 Pitfalls to Avoid if You’re Seeking Impact Capital

5 Pitfalls to Avoid if You’re Seeking Impact Capital

Most Theory of Change work in forest investment weakens credibility. Here’s how to avoid it. Impact investment has a communication AND delivery problem. In my article Are you in the impact mafia, I discuss an article criticizing impact investment. One of its critiques...
Geopolitics, AI and Forest Investment

Geopolitics, AI and Forest Investment

When you get investors behind closed doors, this is what they’ll tell you (and I’ll tell you how it relates to Forest Investment) We work in a sector that values transparency – but there is something to be said for anonymity. It keeps you out of headlines, protects...
5 Changes in Forest Investment in the Past 5 Years

5 Changes in Forest Investment in the Past 5 Years

What’s changed in forest investment – and how I’m helping teams raise and deploy capital faster As the calendar turned to 2026, I quietly crossed the five-year mark of running The ForestLink. Yes, that was nearly three months ago and spring is now upon us but, well,...
What Forest Investment can learn from Figure Skating

What Forest Investment can learn from Figure Skating

Do you have Olympic fever? With the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics practically in our back yard, our family sure does. We even managed to catch a hockey game at the new stadium. Unfortunately (for us), the USA pummelled the Canadian women 5-0. Fortunately, the fans...