A forester by training, Tim left a secure UN career for the private sector in 2022, drawn by Salesforce's reach into 200,000-plus customers, including 60,000 NGOs, and the chance to shape how businesses think about biodiversity, water and climate strategy from the inside. He's also the author of Generation Restoration: How to Fix Our Relationship Crisis with Mother Nature. From a single, disarming admission the conversation opens into what it actually means to rebuild a relationship with nature, and why the language we use to talk about that relationship might matter as much as the science behind it.

In this episode, we cover:

  • “It's not the cow, it's the how” — livestock grazed well restores soil biodiversity and landscapes at scale, and it's factory farming, not meat itself, that's the problem.
  • How ecological literacy starts with three questions and answering them is how people rebuild a felt, not just intellectual, sense of being part of nature rather than separate from it.
  • The “we are nature” dictionary fight — why the Enlightenment-era idea that only humans have the divine spark is the philosophical root of ecological destruction.
  • What a nature-positive strategy actually means in practice
  • Rehabilitating carbon credits — how reducing and investing go together rather than being a trade-off, and that inaction, not offsetting, is now the biggest collective risk companies face.
  • Conditional optimism as a discipline

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