What do you get when a serial coffee entrepreneur moves to Sydney right before the beginning of the Covid pandemic and starts to wonder why the Iron Cove Bay in Sydney is such a dilapidated natural site yet paradoxically is often overrun with walkers, runners and cyclists? Of course Blue Green - an organisation dedicating itself to re-naturalising Sydney harbour to reprise some of its original beauty to help address chronic climate perils in the form of rising sea levels, mitigate the risks of extreme rain events and ever higher king tides, protecting state significant infrastructure, creating opportunities for meaningful community led discussions on managed retreat and the role of the public amenity in our already beautiful city, but also capitalising on emerging natural capital financial markets.Sounds obvious, yeah?Well, Colin Finn is that serial coffee entrepreneur who is gaining traction and support from a diverse set of stakeholders on what is a wickedly complex problem that is problematic now and sure to be a crisis in the future. We explore a lot in this conversation talking about his Blue Green venture, from the unwieldy governance structures of the city that hold in place some of that complexity and unmanageability, the role of using time as a potential frame for breakthroughs, the role of both rational value stack business cases but the critical importance of high quality, community participation and ownership of change, and the fundamental requirement for all of us to shift our perspective where humans are apart from nature to a part of nature. There is just so much in what Colin is building at Blue Green and what he hopes to achieve for all of us now and for generations to come is an important contribution in how we begin to finally engage in and adapt not just our civilisation and landscape to the growing threats a changing climate is presenting us, but also the mindsets and paradigms that need to be engaged now and evolved so that action, and effective action in that, is actually possible.Colin represents the value of a new lens that entrenched perspectives and interests struggle with and may miss - both as a non native Sydney sider as well as his diverse background as a creator and entrepreneur. He also represents the audacity required to engage with and present workable options to allow us to get into action with the challenges we face. How can Sydney and its harbour become more beautiful - that's the type of question a local wouldn't even contemplate suggesting! Settle in for what this unlikely outsider who now calls Sydney homes wants to offer us all, but needs all of our help to pull off.This conversation gives me a lot of hope, and I hope you enjoy it.Send me a messageThanks for listening. Follow Finding Nature on Instagram

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