The first step

Fifteen years in the bowels of an investment bank, polishing the plumbing of the derivatives markets - the lubricant that keeps the wheels of the global markets turning. It's a clear thinking and unambiguous existence...calculate the price and make the trade.

Jump the chasm into the confusing world of environmental and developmental politics and all the harsh black and white tones are replaced with endless shades of gray. Problems look insurmountable. We can't even agree what the problems are.

These are the two worlds I have experienced. They are both real but most people inhabit one or the other. I'm sitting somewhere in the middle - not sure which way to look.

Here is where I will log my journey of discovery...trying to make sense of the problems of globalisation, environment and development - and how my two worlds hopefully come together.