Can Profit and Nature Coexist? with Nick Hough-Robbins
About this episode
NatureAlpha CEO Nick Hough-Robbins on how business, technology, and conservation can work together — and whether we can build successful businesses while protecting the natural world.
In this episode
- Why nature matters to every business — how water, soil, forests and biodiversity underpin the products and economies we depend on.
- How childhood summers beside a stream in the British countryside shaped Nick's lifelong connection to nature.
- The hidden financial cost of environmental degradation — why declining ecosystems create real risks for companies, investors and communities.
- How AI and geospatial data are making nature's hidden value visible, from threatened olive groves in southern Italy to the Amazon rainforest.
- What a restored former diamond mining site in Namibia revealed about environmental responsibility and the possibility of restoration.
- How restoring rivers and natural landscapes can reduce flooding and protect infrastructure.
- Why future generations may judge today's businesses by how they managed the natural resources on which prosperity depends.
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