This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. “Lightsmith has brought together a team with a unique combination of experience in direct investment and climate change and has secured the commitment of leading global investors to invest in climate resilience.” “Lightsmith Climate Resilience is the first private equity fund to focus on investing in solutions to the effects of climate change,” said Kauffman. Lightsmith Climate Resilience is committed to delivering economic returns while adhering to global environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards and providing impact assessment through its Impact Measurement System (IMS). ![]() To date, Lightsmith Climate Resilience has made investments in SOURCE Global, a water harvesting technology company with an off-grid solution to produce affordable drinking water from sunlight and air, and Wa圜ool Foods, an India-based agriculture and food supply chain services company applying physical automation and digital technology to reduce food wastage and improve farm output. Lightsmith Climate Resilience helps companies scale up by applying their technologies to help businesses and communities adapt to climate change, by expanding internationally, particularly in emerging markets, and by partnering with Lightsmith’s global network of companies and governments. Lightsmith Climate Resilience is focusing on six initial technology areas: water efficiency and smart water management, resilient food systems, agricultural analytics, geospatial intelligence, supply chain analytics, and catastrophe risk modeling and risk transfer. The next issue of Financial Post Top Stories will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. She’s bold enough to know the mercy of vultures and vines.A welcome email is on its way. The process of rot, the heft of a hundred years holds for now. Sometimes what looks weak speaks subtly of endurance. She is happy the cornfield next door is peaking. Straight walls and eaves point back to columns and rafters cut of hearts The inside as if hiding secrets or mourning the loss of her caretakers. ……reflecting the slow fade of American farming. The lonely side door with eaten feet remains locked, its brass knob The garage door grounded, window panes stolen long ago. Vertical planks peel from decapitated nails.Ī gravestone sixteen feet tall under wide sky as blue as time. Wisteria climbs the left edge of the roof and peeks into the loft. Semi-stained windows are overshadowed by a ripping roof. It creaks in the wind like an old boat. Thousands of miles on country roads and highways, and I’ve only found this church twice. Here a ripe cotton landscape pools in every direction, contrasting well with an old barn and tall trees. It must be all the metal spider webs. I found the pilothouse operated by wasps and one lightning bug.Ĭotton is one of my favorite crops to capture. The lighthouse, above, is almost 130 years old it remains somehow sturdy in sand. When we were in college, he once took me to an abandoned factory in Richmond, Va., where I witnessed trees and vines growing inside, rail tracks bent and broken, file cabinets piled and blowing papers, waking me to the idea of lovely decay and/or how nature taking it all back can be exquisite and aware. Greg is a more experienced and equipped photographer than I. Two photographers have influenced me more than any others: Ansel Adams and my brother, Greg. Adams, of course, demonstrated how to capture nature on gigantic scales, giving argument for why we should admire and preserve natural settings. There is certainly great black and white photography, but I usually feel the need to show organic color and tone. I mostly prefer color to black-and-white because it copies nature. My “Beauty of Decay” concept comes from the rejection of society-defined beauty or so-called progress, and as a method of accepting my own decay. Half house with cows, Southampton County, Va. ![]() This beauty manifests to me in rusting barns, abandoned homes, churches and schools, forgotten tractors, trucks, and plows, as well as fields, forests, and shorelines. I admire the endurance of the buildings and vehicles and the repurposing of nature. I now drive around Eastern Virginia and North Carolina and search for ways to preserve rural and natural beauty. I grew up in Virginia Beach where I witnessed damage and destruction of rural and natural lands for the lie called development. I feel levels of anger and disappointment when I see greed eclipsing nature. As poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote, “Aftercomers cannot guess the beauty been.” Cape Light, Smith Island, Eastern Shore, Va.
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