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Ben Keene
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🌎Mission: Make what the world needs.
Founder | Speaker | Traveller
🏝 Once built an island eco village (2006)
📚 Rebel Book Club: Non-Stop Learning (2015)
⚡️Raaise.co Getting Climate Startups Funded (2022)
🤖 Ai for Good: hacks + workshops
benkeene.com
💀 At Rebel Book Club we usually go for the ‘new’ in new year. But what if the topic was ‘dying’?

📚With the End in Mind

At 10 events we asked how we might live if we knew our lifespan & heard powerful stories from those with terminal illness:

‘Dying is not a big deal, living is what matters.’
February 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Horrible scenes from LA.

What can we do?

1. Talk. Share the science, solutions, & opportunities.

2. Divest $ (pensions, investments, salaries).

3. Invest $ into climate + nature.

4. Switch careers to climate & nature.

5. Support Climate leaders.

Check out pro-planet businesses raaise.co
January 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Wintering.
December 6, 2024 at 10:23 AM
Great to be back at Blue Earth summit today.

The Blue Economy (think seaweed farms + lots more) seems to be a growing opportunity + of course the small matter that the ocean is all of earth’s life support system and we need to conserve it!
December 3, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Riding the tracks out of town after a packed few days…
> Climate Impact Retreat
> Rebel Book Club
> Climate Connection
> Climate Tech Show
November 28, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Reb Book Club x The Blue Machine
November 27, 2024 at 9:38 PM
When you’re trying to get to a climate business event but stormy weather causes travel disruption…
November 25, 2024 at 9:53 AM
‘One step in front of the other.’

Brilliant stories, tunes & human

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Desert Island Discs - Classic Desert Island Discs - Simon Reeve - BBC Sounds
Lauren Laverne talks to broadcaster and writer Simon Reeve, in an episode from 2022.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Reposted by Ben Keene
Cicero was a very wise man
November 14, 2024 at 6:21 AM
Best nonfiction you’ve read this year. Go…
November 14, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Reposted by Ben Keene
On Wednesday, a team of researchers in the Solomon Islands revealed that they found the world’s largest individual coral colony. It’s the size of two basketball courts.

Just look at this chonky boy!
November 14, 2024 at 5:57 AM
You cannot manage what you don’t measure

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Artificial Human - How green is my AI? - BBC Sounds
Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong ask, how green is my AI?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Just finished ENVIRONOMICS by Dharshini David.

Like an up to date ‘confessions of an eco sinner’ and with better data. From
Energy to Food to Minerals and Plastics, simplifies the complex, makes it personal in a non-judgemental
way and shows the future of all
Our economics needs to be nature first
August 28, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Next up at RBC

Join us > rebelbook.club
August 28, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Last night’s Rebel Book
Club on long term thinking… well attended in 5 cities
August 28, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Hype.
August 28, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Good to see my Dad and brother having fun on the Matterhorn this week
August 28, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Coming from a company that sells phones…

EE tells parents: don't give under-11s smartphones www.bbc.com/news/article...
EE tells parents not to give smartphones to primary-age children
The mobile phone network recommends parents buy under-11s phones that can only text or call.
www.bbc.com
August 28, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Here on @katie0martin.bsky.social recommendation.

Let’s see…
August 24, 2024 at 9:54 AM