Environmental planning and greenhouse audits

Training, product and operations manuals

Website content

Where's the money gone? Forensic accounting and commercial debt counselling

Business planning and coaching

Research for import and export permits

Research for Victorian Town Planning Permits

Franchising manuals and concepts

Saving and recycling water for growing food

Seachanging? Treechanging? Downshifting?

Materials re-use, recycling and salvage

Environmentally-friendly clothing and packaging

FAQ about the elephant

It's amazing what you can achieve when you think around corners.

The best business might not be the one which makes you the most money, but sustains you in a way that brings the most happiness.

Since I left the life of a lawyer, I've talked less and done more. My wife and I have built businesses through careful planning of our money, time, contacts and other resources -- businesses which are fast paced and intense, but which leave us enough time to enjoy the important things in life and to sustain the planet and some of its poorest people whilst we're doing it. My thoughtful, lateral approach doesn't just solve problems! It makes already good situations even better.

It's thinking around corners which turned silk factory waste into both a means of quadrupling the income of some of India's poorest of rural poor, a means of saving the environment by reducing the amount of plastic bags going to landfill, and a means of reducing carbon emissions by plastic bag manufacturers. We're increasing the wages of these women fourfold, in a project in South India in October. Download the business plan

2008 so far has been huge! From software policies for a Danish software company to business plans for a Welsh social work company, research in international real estate markets (and tax effective ways to own real estate), advice on carbon trading for indigenous Brazilians to corporate structures for an international soccer media company to remanufacturing junked shop fittings which now adorn our Melbourne silk warehouse, thinking around corners has been a success! In the first 7 months of 2008 I've also written and edited investment, tourism and health websites, arranged the importation of electric bicycles into Australia to ease traffic congestion in the major cities, written occupatiponal health and safety manuals for the building industry and designed the marketing push for an American on-line arbitration company to enter the Indian market.

My wife and I planned our "downshift" to our Warrnambool property with three accommodation units in a rural zone (and the first of its type now to have sub-division recommendation), 100% water recycling, rainwater tanks and composting toilets.

We then "upshifted" again, subdivided the property, and built a successful textile business for , now in its eighth straight year of growth. Thinking around corners provided me with success as a lawyer, provided the substance of my (still not assessed) Ph.D. thesis and enabled me to retire from full-time work at the age of 42. Download my resume.

No matter what you’re trying to do, it always helps if you can think around corners