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Neal Ascherson has written honestly and forcefully about the grim realities of the 20th century—from the still ruined landscapes of East Germany to Pinochet’s post-coup Chile—while never losing hope that different futures were possible. Isaac Chotiner reports on the life of a polymath: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Pi…
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I set up breakfast *in* the River Roding this week, with authors, artists and lawyers, as we discussed how art and music can drive activism for our beleaguered rivers.
It’s hard to imagine that this beautiful place is just a few hundred metres from some of the ugliest & least nature rich parts of the Roding filled with rubbish & sewage & almost buried under a motorway. It is a river of such extreme contrasts with some of the ugliest and most beautiful places of any river in London.
The fate of the Roding really does hang in the balance: will she be restored to a river of abundant life & natural beauty like this photo, as her guardians so desperately want, or will she be killed by private greed & official indifference by the government & Environment Agency?
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Warren Buffett signs off his final investors’ letter with advice for the ages.
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Dummies think that caring about butterflies is for romantics & bleeding hearts. It’s not. The larvae of butterflies are one of the primary paths by which solar radiation is converted into a living food web, i.e. the ecosystem upon which all life relies. Without them, we are gone
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Just voted. Turnout low and polling station staffed entirely by bewildered primary school children. Make of that what you will.
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in honor of the upcoming eclipse and the full moon here’s my favorite diagram of the phases of the Moon in Islamic manuscripts, look how gorgeous it is
ALT Phase of the moon on a wheel
Right now, @Mark_Spencer is considering letting a pesticide that's lethal to bees back onto fields - despite the Gov's own scientists saying it should stay banned. Want him to make the right decision and protect bees? Add your name: 38d.gs/bz-a
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A pilgrimage to England’s newest temple - at Bristol airport’s waiting car park.
After circumambulation (circling before entry), removing one’s hat, pouring holy water for ablution, and the gift of song (and relative silence), it felt like a holy place. The only lack was my own.
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Unlock the power of imagination at #MGF23 as @Copacetic2020, CEO of @futurereboot, reveals its role in thinking big in #TheBigNow.
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On the root issue: "The greater problem is...the obsession to increase human power beyond anything imaginable, before which nonhuman reality is a mere resource at its disposal. Everything that exists ceases to be a gift for which we should be thankful + instead becomes a slave."
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I’m so delighted by this!
The Bodley Head has acquired Rachel Morley’s “transporting and gloriously entertaining” journey into England’s past through its rural parish churches, Church Crawling. thebookseller.com/rights/the…
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"To walk into one of these buildings, especially alone, is to ache with a kind of exquisite sympathy: one solitary meeting another."
An extract from Steeple Chasing – on elegiac pleasure & the work of @friendschurches – is the cover story of @ChurchTimes. churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2…
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Seriously underestimating danger rarely works out well in the long term.
Try this question at work after the summer hols: "where would we set the True North Star for our org. if we took the evidence of climate and nature breakdown at face value?"
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If she subpoenas Colada, she'll be caught and arraigned.
NEWS: Francesca Gino today filed a $25 million defamation lawsuit against Harvard and Data Colada. Story coming soon.
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The word "Anthropocene" falsely represents the predicament humanity is in. We are entering a near-explosive geological instant of high CO2, high global temperature and high sea level. That's an event boundary, not a geological era. And the cause is not anthropic, it's capitalist.
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🎙️ 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀:
- Anthony Bennett (@Copacetic2020), CEO, Reboot The Future
- Iqra Shaikh (@theiqrashaikh), Task Force Lead, Education, Director, Network for Sustainable Financial Markets.
- Royston Braganza, CEO, Grameen Capital