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Poetry in Hiking
Last week, after 3 days hiking in the Alps, sitting with a view of Bleumlisalp, I made my first attempt at poetry… Water moods Like the avalanching snow Or the rushing streams You like your moods Like the glacier melting Or the cool mountain clouds You like your moods Like the meadow below Or just Read more
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What’s an NGO to do?
Around the world entrepreneurs are saying they can end poverty and save us from climate change, while turning a profit. Meanwhile politicians are often saying more radical things about wellbeing, quality of life, and a new direction for humanity than most mainstream NGOs. And recently the mass media and entertainment worlds aren’t ignoring the seriousness Read more
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Weeing with the Foreign Secretary
Last week, during a nervy pre-speech wee break, then UK Environment Secretary, David Miliband walked in to use the adjacent urinal. “Ah, Dave, I’ve been meaning to talk to you about water privatisation…” I didn’t say. Introductions in toilets aren’t my thing. We were sharing another platform that day, giving plenary talks at the Development Read more
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Opinion about Business will reach a ‘Tipping Point’ Worldwide
Hi Blog subscribers, Im sending you a sneak preview of what Lifeworth are publishing on wednesday… Interest in ‘Moral Markets’ Significant, says Review of Global Business Trends. People’s deepest assumptions about both business and work could be changing in cities around the world, with major implications for future competitiveness. A more subtle shift than the Read more
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If I can Make it There (by video), I’ll make it Anywhere…
I’ve never been to New York. I even lived in America, but never made it to the 2nd largest financial centre in the world (London rules). So an invitation to launch my new UN report at the UN HQ was great. Kinda. I had just been in the pub with a colleague from WWF talking Read more
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Colourful Cuba (cos your gray ain’t my grey)
I sometimes chat with my flatmate about what it was like growing up in the Communist East. We joke about how grey it was. In my books and films it was grey… the buildings, people, all shades of dull depressed and repressed grey. She tells me that books about the West that she read in Read more
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