Steve Willis

Steve Willis is an engineer and innovator with decades of experience providing environmental solutions to large-scale industries. He co-founded Herculean Climate Solutions to identify the multi-million tonne solutions that are required to address the climate crisis. Some of these solutions have become startups, others are being worked on by companies and the boldest have become the central themes of ‘Fairhaven – A Novel of Climate Optimism’. These currently fictional solutions are based on real world projects, and include massive Ocean Restoration approaches, large-scale Arctic ice management, cloud brightening and coastal adaptation. The stories show relatable people dealing with their climate anxiety alongside the enormous scale of the projects that they are working on. Fiction is an extraordinarily powerful visualisation tool which allows people working in the field and the wider public to imagine where we are going, what the future might look like and what it would take to get there.