Jangled Bells ~ Christmas Grief is Here Again…
It’s that bittersweet time of year again – it’s really crept up on us this year hasn’t it? Is there is an emotional battle going on in your mind where part of you desperately wants to be jolly, and the other part of you is so desperately sad? You could be...
Climate change in Fiji: One man, three homes
Sea level rise is already forcing some remote communities to move inland, such as in Fiji in the Pacific Ocean where the government relocated 150 people in the village of Vunidogoloa to higher ground in 2014 from a flood-prone coast. World-renowned climate change...
BEI Talks: The Four Day Working Week with Dr Pedro Gomes
What would a four-day working week mean for you, for employers and for society? Dr Pedro Gomes is an academic economist at Birkbeck, University of London and is passionate about the four-day working week. In conversation with Dr Pamela Yeow, Assistant Dean for...
Alister Doyle and Claire Bradbury on Climate Change – Harrogate Literature Festival
Climate Change – Code Red For Humanity From the deadly floods in Germany to scorching heat in Canada and a deluge in the Black Sea region, extreme weather events are becoming commonplace in the daily news. As COP26 approaches, our panel of experts will discuss our...
This Earth Day ‘Dare to be Great’ with Polly Higgins
World-renowned barrister Polly Higgins proposed to the United Nations that Ecocide be made a crime. This Earth Day, two years on from her death in April 2019, there’s still time to realise the future she imagined for the Earth. In her inspiring book Dare To Be...
DARE TO BE GREAT at Stroud Book Festival
“I know it may not yet look like it, but we are sowing the seeds of greatness for countless generations to come. That is the Great Work of our times. Yours and mine.” So writes Polly Higgins, celebrated Earth lawyer and luminary in the environmental...