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An explosion of sunshine

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Today Nada bought me oranges from her mother’s garden. I felt like someone in a Jan Van Eyck painting for whom oranges would have been a very special gift indeed – a symbol of wealth and privilege. So today I felt honoured to receive beautiful, fresh oranges, like an explosion of sunshine, from a lovingly [...]

Time to stand up and be counted

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

We are rapidly running out of time. Every choice we make now has profound consequences and every time I get slack I imagine the voices of the children around me asking, in disbelief, “how can you do that, how can you choose your comfort over our future?” It really is time to stand up and [...]

Question everything

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

How can I suck thee in? Let me count the ways.This ad went to air in America during May last year. It was put together by the CEI (Competitive Enterprise Institute) – the same Exxon Mobil funded think tank that put out the press releases about Al Gore’s electricity bill. These appeared in papers around [...]