Cecil exists to help teams restore nature. Sharing thoughts on nature as an asset class, environmental markets & our growing nature-tech category is part of that journey.
Cecil’s Jo Tay shares why storytelling can help teams uncover solutions to save our natural world.
In 1848, a carpenter named James Marshall was building a sawmill near the Sacramento River in eastern USA when he noticed traces of a shiny metal in the mill’s water wheel. And so begun the California Gold Rush. In the 7 years that followed, over 300,000 people from all over the world, known as “forty-niners” (a reference to 1849, the peak year for the Rush), flocked to the region to get in on the act.
Knowledge is power, and today’s knowledge is data. But to unlock data’s true power in scaling nature restoration, teams must first figure out how to collect, process, and distribute it. We share some of the data management solutions that can help you scale your nature restoration business.
As more NBS projects are finding appropriate levels of scale, private investors are beginning to take notice and allocate capital towards to these projects. In this post, Cecil Intern Marcus Rehbock explores the historic roadblocks for private investment, rising capital inflows into nature and nature as an emerging asset class.
Managing data to develop quality nature-based projects is no easy feat. Facing a ‘death by a thousand spreadsheets’, teams are cobbling together ad-hoc workarounds using excel, file storage systems and workflow management software to take control of their data. In this blog post, we explore why inefficient data management is holding back quality nature-based project portfolios from scale.
Cecil’s design process sits at the heart of our business. In this blog post, we share our human-centred, collaborative approach to problem solving and how it’s fuelling a mission to help teams restore nature.
They say it takes a village to raise a child. Nature-based projects work in much the same way. In this post, we explore the importance of effective NBS stakeholder management and why teams restoring nature are using technology to streamline this process.
In this piece we take a look at the technologies and the start-ups that are ushering in a new era of interaction and understanding between us and the natural world we live in.
A new cohort of private financiers are driving unprecedented demand for high quality nature-based projects. We explore this new reality for the teams restoring nature and the 'high quality 'problems' to be overcome.
As existing environmental markets evolve and new nature markets emerge, teams restoring nature are finding new strategies to get ahead. We explore how workflow management systems can help teams scale portfolios of high quality nature-based projects.
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If you find something that you want to change in the world, you are left with two options. 1. Tell anyone that will listen about the change you are going to make. 2. Stop talking and begin. We chose the latter.
We share more on why we came together to found Cecil, what we want to change and why this work matters to us.
After 12 months of dreaming, searching, learning, listening and collaborating Alex and Rory decided to make the leap.
We're told there is a rigorous process behind naming businesses. But when it came to naming this Cecil, we decided to follow our intuition.
Having spent the last 4 weeks understanding the problem space, the team switched gears this week towards developing a solution for our target customer.
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