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Journal: July, 2009
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Ruggie.org
New business and human rights portal
31 July 2009
One of the social enterprises I have helped over time is the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, which has just launched a new portal for John Ruggie, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on business and human rights. Well worth a visit.... more >
100 Years Ago Today
Merci, M. Blériot
25 July 2009
He could almost have taken off with those moustaches alone
He may have collapsed his undercarriage 100 years ago today, when he landed on these shores after his first-ever flight across the Channel, but Louis Blériot was a prototypical example of Homo volans. The whole adventure, with a damaged foot incurred before the flight, was an example of coming in on a wing and a prayer, and only just ahead of competitors whose names failed to register in the historical record. But he certainly looked the part.... more >
Wilton Park
As seen from Chanctonbury Ring
14 July 2009
Down to Shoreham-by-Sea yesterday evening, then taxi out to Wilton Park to speak at their British-German Forum 2009. The theme: Can we shape capitalism to suit our future? Because I was speaking late today, after lunch I climbed up to Chanctonbury Ring - and its Iron Age hill fort, dating from around the 6th to 5th centuries BC. Had been raining earlier, which made the ground very muddy and slippery in places, but the sun was out and the ascent was a joy. ... more >
From the Environment Foundation ...
... to the Foundation for Democracy & Sustainable Development
09 July 2009
By train down to Newdigate, near Dorking, for a meeting of the Trustees of the Environment Foundation - hosted by Sir Geoffrey Chandler, a former Trustee, and his wife Lucy. Wonderful to deliberate the shift of focus of the Foundation as it morphs into the Foundation for Democracy & Sustainable Development under its Director, Halina Ward, as woodpeckers, nuthatches and tits queued to feed on the pergola outside the kitchen. An extraordinary proliferation of butterflies as we worked. Halina and her sister are working on a revamp of the Foundation's website, which will reposition us in a pretty major way later in the year.... more >
Facing the Future
Anti-materialism in the most material of surroundings
08 July 2009
Bad parent that I am, while Elaine went to Hania's thirtieth birthday party, I found myself sitting in tropically warm, St James's Palace, listening to Prince Charles on the Future - the latest Dimbleby Lecture.... more >
Virgin Morning
Surprise encounter with Homo volans
06 July 2009
VIrgin mural 1, with Homo volans at join between walls
Virgin mural 2 - and again
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GRI Board in Amsterdam
05 July 2009
Spent the weekend in Amsterdam, with the Board of the Global Reporting Initiative. Exciting journey to Heathrow, with a driver who started off as the traffic lights turned from red to green, backwards into a line of traffic. And then his satellite navigation system kept telling him to go in the wrong direction, so I had to keep wading in to correct. Then the security people kept putting my bag through the scanner, because they could see a pair of scissors I didn't know I had - Elaine had tucked them in at some point. Then I was sitting next to a screaming child on the flight out. And so it went. But the dinner on Saturday and the meeting today both went very well.... more >
Lilies bloom at 2BP
03 July 2009
03 July 2009
Cavalry 1
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