Skip to content

Waiting to Credit Marvels

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

Tag: winchester

Lost sporting prints from the pubs of Winchester

Pubs have had a terrible time over Covid. But that’s no excuse for the disappearance of my four favourite sporting prints in Winchester pubs.

Published July 23, 2022
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cricket, winchester

Ignore the elephant in the Itchen at our peril

How can Winchester City Council announce a flood defences scheme without mentioning climate change? It feels as though there’s an embargo on the phrase which is not good for policy-making or for the design of this important scheme.

Published January 20, 2019
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate adaptation, flood defences, winchester

The accent of motherhood is out of the box

Readings of The Republic of Motherhood by Liz Berry may offer fresh opportunities to reveal the emotional power of her Black Country dialect.

Published September 16, 2018
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged poetry, winchester

Climate change and art: just good friends

A Simon Armitage poem for the Winchester Poetry Festival prompts thoughts about climate change and art in its choice of subject – Antony Gormley’s Sound II

Published September 12, 2016
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged art, climate change, science communication, winchester

Climate and sanitation: partners in shame

It may seem far-fetched but success stories in changing sanitation behaviour in developing countries might offer insights for the difficult transition to low carbon lifestyles for the rich.

Published November 16, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate change, water and sanitation, winchester

Deforestation: to be or not to be?

There are good grounds for pessimism on prospects for saving the rainforests. But the link with climate change creates new hope that two environmental calamities can be addressed together.

Published November 9, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged film, forests, redd, winchester

Curse of St.Swithun foils climate adaptation

Adapting to a warmer climate in the UK brings the promise of Mediterranean pleasures. Whilst poor countries will struggle with food production, we can look forward to consuming more of it outdoors.

Published August 17, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate change, winchester

UK climate projections betray Copenhagen agenda

The new UK climate projections published by the Met Office Hadley Centre are a valuable risk management tool for policymakers. But they also speak volumes about the global failure to protect poor countries from climate change.

Published June 29, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged alpha, climate adaptation, climate change, global divide, unfccc, winchester

Children’s rights mirror the global divide

Laws to protect children from sexual abuse in the UK are advanced and actively implemented. The absence of such laws in many developing countries is a major concern to human rights campaigners.

Published June 22, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged beta, global divide, human rights, winchester

More substance to Nepal than Gurkha sideshow

The fall of Prachanda’s government has no direct connection with the controversial treatment of Gurkha veterans in the UK. But our domestic political dramas should not overshadow the significance of poverty reduction and stability in Nepal.

Published May 11, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged beta, nepal, winchester

Posts navigation

Page 1 Page 2 Older posts
Waiting to Credit Marvels
Proudly powered by WordPress.

A blog by Bill Gunyon

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.

Contact: bill@treadsoftly.net

Tweets by BillGunyon

Archives

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