Getting honest about what we’re willing to risk for the Planet

As the founder of IoE, I’ve regularly pitched larger conservation organizations and funders on helping us scale. Once the province of Silicon Valley tech companies, mainstream conservation organizations now have departments, officers, labs, and think tanks dedicated to innovation.

For a while, this—combined with a growing number of conferences, publications, and organizations focused on innovation—made me hopeful that the conservation sector was ready for it.

But I’ve seen little willingness to take the risks that innovation demands.

What can be done to increase conservation’s appetite for risk?

This month, I explore what it will take for environmental conservation organizations to experiment without fear of failure in order to make progress against high-stakes, long-term environmental challenges on the pages of the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Read the full article and feel invited to join the conversation in the comments there.