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Author, Freelance writer, Wine critic, Speaker, Consultant, Climate Change Researcher
Water runs through everything I do. My thirty years of wine tasting and writing eventually led me to the bigger story of Climate Change, work that became Wine and Climate Change (2014), the first book on the subject, and later the founding of The Wine and Climate Change Institute in 2016. From there, my research widened to embrace sustainable farming, soil health, and how we manage freshwater in agriculture. I was proud to contribute to the United Nations’ Encyclopedia of the Sustainable Development Goals with a chapter paper on the non-viability of freshwater irrigation in viticulture. At the same time, my close Saami ancestry deepened my commitment to Indigenous Knowledge Systems. Most recently, completing a master’s in Coastal and Maritime Societies and Cultures (UHI) sparked my current PhD in Northern Studies, where I focus on the Indigenous peoples of the Circumpolar North, Scotland’s Orkney and Shetland Islands, and the geopolitics of the Arctic.
PORTO PROTOCOL : CLIMATE TALKS
The Porto Protocol in Porto, Portugal, was founded by Taylor’s Port and is a global movement that shares practical knowledge to empower the wine industry to take action against climate change and promote sustainability.
