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Waiting to Credit Marvels

on global justice, climate change, cricket, living in Winchester and other trials of patience

Tag: activism

McKibben can revive moody Monbiot

George Monbiot sounds very depressed at recent events. Bill McKibben of 350.org seems inspired. Perhaps the two should compare notes.

Published March 22, 2010
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged activism, climate science

Third sector threatened with eviction

The international NGO movement missed crucial opportunities in the global financial crisis. New leadership is needed to restore its position in the political process.

Published January 4, 2010
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged activism, economic crisis

Climate march treads the footsteps of fear

The Wave climate change protest in London created the opportunity to reflect whether the city’s experience of terrorist attacks carries any message for tackling global warming.

Published December 7, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged activism, climate change, terrorism

Population and consumption: two sides of the coin

New UK population projections published this week provoked concerns that food and energy supplies cannot keep up. But it’s not just our numbers that are straining the limits.

Published October 25, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged activism, consumption, population, UK

Low carbon behaviour needs the selfish gene

What are the most effective strategies to inspire the behaviour change necessary to counter global warming? Less government intervention and more personal freedom might be the answer.

Published May 18, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged activism, climate change, delta, UK

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A blog by Bill Gunyon

Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with local renewable energy, Hampshire Hogs Cricket, Winchester Poetry Festival and City of Winchester Trust. Still playing fives and real tennis. Views my own. Please respect copyright.

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things