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About twenty years ago, I was invited to a meeting in what was then the Philips Building in North Sydney, a building that housed offices that had a simply spectalular view of Sydney Harbour, including the famous Opera House, which was partly hidden by the perhaps even more-famous Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The meeting was going swimmingly, until about half an hour in, when someone looked out the window and remarked "My God, what is that?"
We dropped the subject at hand - I believe it was a Loreal television commerical - and rushed over to take a look, just in time to see a massive banner unfold from the top of the Harbour Bridge. On the banner was a slogan, something anti-nuclear, above a massive Greenpeace logo.
Someone turned on a television in the corner of the room. The media were already there, of course, and for the next hour we watched as the climbers were pulled down from the bridge by the police and loaded into vans. As one of the activists was being loaded into the vans, a camera got a clear shot at his face.
Much to the amusement of my fellow capitalists in the meeting, it was my brother, Cameron.
I caught up with Cameron a few days ago and we talked about some of the projects he is working on, and I told him about some of the CleanTech and green capital dollar projects that I'm working on or near.
It was clear from the conversation that things have come rather a long way in 20 years. It's taken a while, but the most enlightened venture capitalists are becoming undistinguishable from the activists of old. Many are now engaged on projects that will have a large impact on life in qualitative ways - several of the most interesting recent pitches I've heard have been about water recapture and new clearner ways to manufacture traditionally "dirty" things, like paper.
In any case, it is nice to be closer to my brother in spirit, and to see the world's capitalists moving slowly closer to the world's environmental activists in an effort to improve the overall quality of life.
