Imagine you had the chance to watch some young lions out on the African savannah taking their first gambolling steps under the protective eye of their mother. Or if you were on hand in the Arctic when a polar bear showed its young how to slide down a snow slope. Perhaps it is the idea… Continue reading
Crystal ball gazing at the Hay Festival
The 25th Hay festival, which closed on Sunday, was in looking-ahead mood. A string of sessions under the heading “The way we live now” asked questions of personalities about life today, and where we would be in 25 years time. We attended debate number 6 (event 486). There was a frivolous question, “What makes you… Continue reading →
Electric cars available for hire to visitors to Brecon Beacons
Visitors to the Brecon Beacons National Park will have a green way to travel around during their stay in 2012. It will be both low energy and environmentally friendly, and, for this year at least, distinctively French. Tourism in the area is a high energy business. Visitors to the park currently average 50 car miles… Continue reading →
How far have we come since the Rio Conference?
The Rio+20 conference (Conference on Sustainable Development, 20 – 22 June) will have stiff competition on the news agenda this summer, but we must still pay it close attention, even if the Prime Minister of the U.K.’s “greenest government ever” isn’t attending. I was at a debate about where we are, 20 years on from… Continue reading →
Sobers at Swansea: how I saw the six sixes over
While I can’t remember in detail any of the individual strokes, and you can see it all on YouTube anyway, I do recall the sense of incredulity when we realised we had just seen a piece of cricketing perfection, a feat never accomplished before in the entire history of the game. The reaction was strangely… Continue reading →
Peddling the good news from Ghent
Let’s celebrate the Belgian city of Ghent “transformed from a city with high levels of traffic congestion to a clean, tranquil and safe cycling city, where two wheels take priority over four” according to the judges in the inaugural Eurostar Ashden Award for Sustainable Travel, which announced its winners this week (May 31, 2012). “One… Continue reading →