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It’s now four months since I first mentioned the People’s Pilgrimage, and its charismatic inspiration Yeb Saño, the former Climate Ambassador for the Philippines (@yebsano on Twitter). He’s now well on in his 1500 kilometre pilgrimage from Rome to Paris, joining with others along the way, of all…

It’s been a very long time since I’ve participated in the launch of a Sustainability Report with more than 450 people in attendance! But that’s what happened on Wednesday last week with the launch of Air New Zealand’s first ever Sustainability Report in Auckland. (Just to declare a whole bunch of…

This is the first full week of Community Energy Fortnight, coordinated by Forum for the Future on behalf of the Community Energy Coalition (for which FFF provides the Secretariat), and supported by Cooperative Energy. This is the third such fortnight, and BY FAR THE MOST IMPORTANT. And that’s…

A packed issue of Resurgence/The Ecologist for September/October, including Philip Pullman on William Blake, Vandana Shiva on the impact of industrial farming practices on Indian farmers - and my review of two recent books, by Tony Juniper and Dieter Helm: http://www.resurgence.org/ 

I’m just back from Gabon and Liberia – first time I’ve ever been in these countries. I was there to understand better what the idea of ‘sustainable palm oil’ might mean in that part of the world, and came away both excited at the potential for both countries, and even more uneasy with the…

I’m an NGO-person through and through, but sometimes I do find conventional NGO tactics deeply aggravating. Take the Kodaikanal story, and the current campaign against Unilever. A brilliant bit of in-your-face exposé on Youtube puts Unilever’s history on the Kodaikanal story front and centre of…