That is my final column for some time. However wait: Don’t go anyplace.

I am taking a pair months off — one thing I have not finished in my, um, 48 years as a working skilled. I’ve received just some plans — a little bit of journey, some long-delayed initiatives, a pile of studying. However largely, I will simply … be. Or, at the least, I’ll attempt. It’s one thing new for me and, to be sincere, a bit scary.

Consider it as my psychological rewilding.

In nature, rewilding can contain restoring habitats and ecological techniques which were misplaced or degraded, or just leaving issues alone in order that nature can do what comes — effectively, naturally. That is a good approximation of what I am wanting ahead to within the coming months: a mixture of feeding my physique and soul in addition to simply leaving issues be and seeing what sprouts.

After I return in September, I plan to proceed writing for GreenBiz.com, specializing in longer-form, deeper-dive items than my weekly publication deadline has afforded. I’ll additionally proceed to be engaged in a wide range of different roles, together with as chairman of the board of GreenBiz Group, contributing to our occasions, attending conferences of our peer networks, mentoring my colleagues and supporting GreenBiz.org, our nonprofit arm specializing in advancing professionals of colour in sustainability.

I’m. Completely. Not. Retiring. Not even shut.

That is an opportune time for me to rethink my function on this superb, dynamic firm.

For the time being, I am passing the reins of GreenBuzz, my weekly publication for practically 20 years, to my buddy and proficient colleague Dylan Siegler, who leads GreenBiz’s applications for the company sustainability group, together with our annual GreenBiz convention. On the similar time, I will hand our weekly podcast, GreenBiz 350, to my esteemed co-host, journalist Heather Clancy, who will take a summer season hiatus and be again within the fall with a contemporary strategy.

It is a pivotal second for GreenBiz Group, and an opportune time for me to rethink my function on this superb, dynamic firm. We’re rising steadily, due to a C-suite of seasoned professionals and a badass group of thinkers and doers at each degree of the group — practically 80 individuals and counting. Beneath the management of CEO Eric Faurot, we’re leaning into some thrilling new services that we consider will gas our progress and influence — and, after all, make it easier to speed up your influence, too. Extra on these within the coming months.

It’s that stable basis that’s contributed to my capacity to step again from day-to-day actions to deal with extra strategic plans and merchandise.

Penning this column and publication every week has been a pleasure. I’ve tried to cowl a broad vary of matters — belongings you had been seemingly anticipating and, I am sure, some belongings you weren’t. The matters, above all, have mirrored my very own curiosities and idiosyncrasies, the musings and explorations of somebody who’s been round this subject for greater than three a long time however who nonetheless has an insatiable urge for food for studying what’s new and what’s subsequent.

Please settle for my humble thanks on your readership and listenership these a few years. Your suggestions, each constructive and unfavourable — all of it instructive — has been vital to my studying and progress. Writing for you every week has been an honor and a privilege.

As I mentioned, there’s extra to come back — however first, a bit of rewilding.

So lengthy, for now. I’ll see you in September.