This is the last in a series of friends and family updates I wrote on The Life Cycle journey. It captures something of the rather crazy race-to-the-finish ending, so I…
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I have (finally!) written a guest blog for World Land Trust, about meeting macaws, a few conservation dilemmas and the super-importance of city-side forests. WLT support brilliant biodiversity work around the…
‘No to mining, yes to water and life.’ Cajamarca campaign slogan I think Jennifer Rodriguez may be the bravest person I’ve ever met. 26 years old, with a young…
‘With a shared ethic of respect for the planet, we can create common solutions and lead by example in showing how to coexist with nature.’ César A. Franco Laverde,…
Rosamira had told me I would almost certainly see monkeys. Not just any old monkeys, either, but Cotton Top Tamarin monkeys, or Titis; tiny creatures with a messy white hairdo…
I arrived at One Love thanks to Manuela, a friend of a colleague of a friend, who I’d not yet met. ‘Kate’ she said, on the mobile phone that I’d…
‘We have to reinhabit the earth, intelligently, humanely and effectively’ wrote T.C.McLuhan in his introduction to The Way of the Earth. It’s a pretty good way to describe the work…
‘All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.’ Martin Buber ‘It’s typical’ [my detour north]. ‘You set out with a linear idea of what your journey should…
Cargo ship-induced emotional wrestling with the spectre of STUFF, aka global consumerism, its enormity and its impacts, left me even more curious and keen to explore Costa Rica: No 1…
The seabird flotilla left us not long after we departed French waters. For days, we saw only waves, and occasional flying fish. Then a solitary bird joined us for…