Thoughts on our environment

Our shared priority as humanity has to be the environment, our natural world and our ability to not only halt the harm being caused but actually create ways in which the natural and its incredible ecosystems can actually recover and thrive. Through debates with friends have cast dubious arguments such as ‘business is purely about return on capital’, a view which I fiercely oppose. Certainly I hold the hope that business can actually be a catalyst for great good to be done, a way of incentivising creative individuals into a shared mission, into truly meaningful organisations and perhaps above all to provide better alternatives for populations to consume, especially in areas such as food, transport and energy. It is there areas that I feel business has a role to play in our next 100 years as a civilised society if we are to remain on this planet without creating unimaginable devastation and loss to the many species we share the earth with. Having spent nearly 20 years on a particular path, I have become synonymous as a property developer or property investor, based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire , I am now presented with this crossroads. It has presented as a result of something as trivial as a planning technicality from Harrogate Borough Council over our proposed re development of Crescent Gardens, Harrogate and has yielded the most incredible opportunity at this, post Corona pandemic, re build of the economy. Considering a way in which we can create businesses and organisations such as STARS and be part of the community to re-build economies in a more aligned way, providing people with genuinely meaningful, purposeful work and impacting the way in which we protect our natural world, our only environment for future generations. Adam Thorpe.