Samantha Walmsley-Bartlett
News & Views

Thinking across
the system.

LinkedIn reflections.

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LinkedIn is where my more personal reflections from the gatherings, experiences and conversations are shared with the people who know me personally.

  • Reflection · Recent

    I found the water on day one

    The story of moving to Canada, and how I got here.

  • Reflection · Peer-to-peer learning

    The way to create change is to role model the hell out of the situation

    There is a kind of magic that only happens when people from completely different worlds come together - and I get to witness it twice a year at the Future Farmers hui. This article shares what makes this network so impactful through a glimpse of a 'weekend in the life'.

  • Short Post· Solutionists

    How do you stay sane in sustainability?

    What happened when I realized that I am a decade into what will be a lifetime of no's, not now's, and maybe later's.

  • Newsletter · Circular practices

    999 Days of Circular Practices

    A running record of the daily, practical work of making circularity real - 999 days of experiments, lessons, and reflections from inside food and fibre systems.

  • Short Post · Reflection

    How did you get so confident?

    On where my confidence comes from

Essays. Long-form thinking. Coming Soon

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These are my longer-form pieces. I work out an idea over many words, and publish them on my personal Substack, shown here.

  • Essay One · 12 min · Forthcoming

    Incentives: The invisible architecture of the food system

    How contracts, capital flows, and regulation decide what is possible inside food and fiber.

  • Essay Two · 9 min · Forthcoming

    Integrity: Structural alignment, not virtue

    Why integrity is a system property, not a character trait. On leadership under pressure.

  • Essay Three · 11 min · Forthcoming

    Long-term impact: What actually endures

    Defining impact as durability. Land longevity, producer viability and supply chains built for climate and geopolitical instability.

  • Co-authored · Forthcoming

    EAT: The food chapter of Circular by Nature

    This chapter examines what is being lost at every stage of that linear system, what a circular food system would look like in its place, and what it will take to build it. It moves from soil to shelf, from production through processing to consumption, and closes with the specific actions and coordination required to make the transition real.