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A POSITIVE NUISANCE
Robin Maynard.
FINDING A NATURAL OPTIMISM
As we become more experienced in the business of life, it’s easy to get into the habit of intellectual inertia. We can close our minds, becoming what we once ran from in our youth. A stagnation of thought begins to take hold and begins to cripple us.
Any organisation, or society, no matter how radical in its inception can fall victim to this same stagnation. That’s why moments of maverick thinking can be so fleetingly rare. But maverick thought doesn’t require a prophet-like zeal running through every moment of one’s life.
Maverick thinking is born from the smallest interactions, from those who are on the peripheries of power, from those not ladened with prescribed expectation. To inject hope and passion into the smallest interactions of life is to practise this sometimes illusive maverick thought. Developing an everyday radicalism is the fusion from which maverick thought emerges, and from which change can occur.
ROBIN MAYNARD is that maverick. Robin describes what he has done over the past thirty years as making a “positive nuisance” of himself.
I’m a shrewd freelance campaigner, avid environmentalist and general ‘positive nuisance’ on behalf of some of the UK’s leading green NGOs.
I’ve honed my campaign skills through three decades of effective environmental action – including 15 years in senior campaign director roles for the Soil Association and Friends of the Earth.
My dogged persistence and smart strategies have helped win a number of high-impact victories for nature – including success for the (Save) Our Forests campaign, which forced a Government U-turn on plans to sell off the UK’s public woodlands.
I can help strengthen your voice and maximise your campaign’s impact.
