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Waiting to Credit Marvels

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

Tag: sustainable development

Confined to barracks, consoled by Oscar Wilde

The mystery of unsustainable lifestyles is the gap between those who worry and those who stay calm and carry on. Perhaps it’s time to understand each other.

Published June 16, 2013
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged sustainable development

Scientists scour planet for attentive audience

Nobody seems to listen to what earth scientists are saying about the fate of the planet, not even the UN General Assembly when addressed by Johan Rockstrom.

Published May 26, 2013
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged science communication, sustainable development

Ecosystem services need social science more than slogans

Professor Joshua Farley’s Oxford lecture “The Political Economy of Ecosystem Services” warns against subjecting nature to the forces of market mechanisms.

Published March 11, 2013
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged market mechanisms, sustainable development, teeb

Sir Porritt and Lord John in Delhi comedy of manners

Jonathon Porritt and Lord Prescott made telling contributions on climate change at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS).

Published February 3, 2013
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate change, dsds2013, sustainable development

Give this conference the third degree on global warming

The Planet Under Pressure 2012 conference is in need of a legacy. Scientists should be encouraged to say what they think about the prospects for limiting global warming to two degrees. The consequences could be profound.

Published March 29, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate science, global governance, planetary boundaries, sustainable development

Another Rio banana skin for David Cameron

The Future We Want is the name of the Zero draft outcome document for the Rio+20 conference. Its content is not in line with the future the UK government wants.

Published January 13, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged rio+20, sustainable development, UK

How to speed read on development

I don’t mind studying opinions which differ from mine but there are some showstoppers. Is this prejudice or efficient research methodology?

Published January 18, 2010
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged development media, sustainable development
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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