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Field notes on Nature as infrastructure.
Read more about finance, water risk, biodiversity and climate resilience, written by the Rebalance Earth team.
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29 June 2026 · Eoin Murray
Critical natural assets, UK & Ireland: the map worth building | Part I
A new global map of critical natural assets shows almost half of UK land is doing essential work. The map is finished. The pricing awaits.
15 June 2026 · Eoin Murray
The catchment doesn't average
Three water reports from one bank's orbit, a Parliamentary synthesis, and a manual for making water investable — and why, for adaptation, the catchment is the only scale that's actually moving.
8 June 2026 · Eoin Murray
The 19% problem
Goldman Sachs puts 19% of listed-market revenue on high water dependency. The bigger finding is what the bank's framework still leaves valued at zero.
1 June 2026 · Eoin Murray
What a small bay in Wales tells us about blue carbon
A marine heatwave in a small Welsh bay exposes the gap between blue carbon promise and project-level reality — and why protection, not replanting, may carry the economics.
8 February 2026 · Rob Gardner
The Incoming Solvency Crisis That No One Is Pricing
How climate adaptation failure could rival the Savings & Loans debacle from the 1970s.
21 January 2026 · Rob Gardner
Known Knowns. Known Unknowns — Is Britain's Economy Destabilising?
As climate extremes intensify, the real risk lies in cascading system failures across infrastructure, productivity and GDP.
23 November 2025 · Rob Gardner
The World's Greatest Brand Has No Marketing Budget
How we turned fiction, fabric, and steel into billion-dollar stories, but forgot how to sell the one system that keeps us alive.
11 March 2025 · Rob Gardner
Pension Funds as a Catalyst for Nature-based Investing
Natural capital is no longer just a buzzword; it has become a critical element of economic and environmental resilience.
18 February 2025 · Rob Gardner
The Economic Case for Valuing Nature as an Asset Class
Why Nature must be recognised as a critical asset class — beyond carbon credits and biodiversity units — and how investing in it can deliver credible financial returns alongside environmental and social benefits.