Writing – Coaching – Strategy
In 2023, Visit Wales commissioned me to write an essay explaining the genesis of and vision for the National Forest for Wales, based on my book, Return to My Trees. The book was also featured in Visit Wales's annual marketing brochure.
During the course of my 30 year journalism career I've worked as an editor in a number of different roles. I've been the Editor in Chief at FinTech Alliance, helping launch the platform and shape all editorial coverage. At the Village Voice I was senior editor charge of national and international affairs. At The Industry... Continue Reading →
fta-esg-full-report-finalDownload I conceived, reported and wrote this report for FinTech Alliance.
In 2015 I founded Sustainly, an online platform and consultancy dedicated to providing insight and intelligence for professionals working in the areas of sustainability communication and marketing. Sustainly features a database of 1500 case studies and company profiles and a series of special reports and trend briefings. The platform has more than 2,000 members and... Continue Reading →
In Ecuador’s Rain Forest, the Case Against Texaco is Clear-Cut LAGO AGRIO, ECUADOR–At first sight, it didn’t seem that bad. Yes, Lago, as everyone calls it, in the heart of the Oriente, is a dusty, tough-looking oil town. But it was hardly the apocalyptic nightmare I had been led to expect. Where were the rivers... Continue Reading →
In Bed-Stuy, the nation’s only minority-run volunteer ambulance corps rides the streets, and 911’s not a joke. It’s 10 past four on a fast-cooling early Saturday morning and the red-eye crew of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps is sipping coffee in the back of the ambulance. Martin Law, 30, Timothy Sutton, 28, Angelina Coleman, 23,and... Continue Reading →
On the road at the 1999 Rugby World Cup At the end of last summer, I was driving on Long Island’s Southern State Parkway when a car passed by me with a sticker on its rear bumper that read CYMRU AM BYTH — or, translated from the Welsh, “Wales for Ever.” My heart leapt. It’s... Continue Reading →
On the trail of Ayahuasca and biopiracy in the Ecuadorean rainforest In my dream, I’m sitting on lush, wet grass in a place I’ve never seen before. With me are a man and woman, both young and attractive, strangers to me. We’ve drunk a potion and now we are waiting. Suddenly the woman’s expression changes... Continue Reading →
I created and edited an inhouse weekly news digest for HSBC devoted to sustainability issues. It ran from 2006 to 2010 and was distributed to over 1000 of the bank's executives and employees to help with ESG investment decision making.
Matthew Yeomans Consulting 