Dumbo Feather – February 2019

Farewell to Niceness WORDS: CAMERON ELLIOT ILLUSTRATION: CARLA MCRAE 60 DUMBO FEATHER ...

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KAT TAYLOR IS A REBEL BANKER SUBJECT Kat Taylor OCCUPATION Impact investor INTERVIEWER Dan Fitzgerald PHOTOGRAPHER Angela DeCenz ...

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“I don’t know how we can not rationalise putting our natural commons back into public ownership and managing them like the commo ...

DAN FITZGERALD: [Laughs]. KAT TAYLOR: I’m so honoured to be asked to do this interview. Honestly Dan! I was reading about your p ...

[Laughs] You and Yvon Chouinard together! It’s incredible that you can remember those moments. As you were speaking, I was think ...

pressure to clamp down personal emotion. To not be emotional, to never cry in public. Take lumps and pretend like it doesn’t get ...

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We have to stop doing that. We have to solve for stakeholder wellbeing. And I don’t mean just one stakeholder. I mean, count all ...

jumps right down, but it’s still in the several billions of dollars so you’re probably okay. But we’re also going to see a more ...

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mass movements as well. We’re not in the business of creating mass movement but we are tools for the activists who do. So the ac ...

out in a crowd. The fact that I am a female CEO who sings, I do kind of say business as usual is not going to cut it here. It’s ...

ButitmeansthatifI lookaroundandtheroomisnotfilledwithyoungpeople,peopleof colour,peopleonthenon-binarygenderspectrum,ifthey’reno ...

So particularly at a time of climate change and all sorts of weather and environmental disasters, I find that I don’t know how w ...

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