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

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Digital learning and global poverty

School textbooks are history, says Arnold Schwarzenegger. That’s good news for publishers such as OneWorld but do youngsters have adequate concentration spans in the online environment?

Published June 15, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged delta, digital communications, education, social media

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

G20 summit: excluded African voices

The G20 London summit is unrepresentative of the poorest countries who will be most affected by decisions about the world economy. Here’s a selection of what African leaders have to say.

Published March 30, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged africa, delta, G20, global divide

Data collection problems in developing countries

William the Conqueror was a thousand years ahead of his time. As the lack of accurate data undermines the Millennium Development Goals, we can see how the Domesday Book was a model for development planning in its day.

Published March 2, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged delta, development data
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Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with Winchester Action on the Climate Crisis, Winchester Poetry Festival, City of Winchester Trust and Hampshire Hogs CC. Still playing cricket, fives, 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