Something I mentioned, speaking at Verdant’s “star-studded” launch last month was the need for a think tank to be able to speak “hard truths”. One of those new hard truths is that we live in a world of repeated shortages.

Deborah Doane
Over the past few months, I, along with my Verdant Co-Director, James Meadway, (or should I say now ‘work-husband?’) have been meeting with multiple people in media and philanthropy asking the obvious opening question: “Do we really need another think tank?”