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Category Archives: Travel blog
Further film progress and Jim Hansen’s visit
Over recent months I’ve played a relatively small role in helping organise part of Jim Hansen’s current trip to New Zealand. For those who don’t know him Jim Hansen is one of the world’s leading climate change scientists. Convinced by … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Climate change, Grassroots perspectives, Thailand
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Third film clip uploaded
For the past month or so I’ve been absorbed in writing or contributing to various work proposals. Hopefully I will have some success with at least some of these. Meanwhile I have continued working on my film when time has … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Climate change, Grassroots perspectives, Local resilience, Mekong river, Thailand
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Second film clip uploaded
I received some very supportive comments and positive feedback on my first clip, uploaded three weeks ago. I subsequently decided to work sequentially through my footage. This posed an immediate challenge as the next batch of film required me to … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Climate change, Grassroots perspectives, Local resilience, Resilience, Thailand
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Further reflections from Thailand: Learning to live with uncertainty
In my last post I talked about transformational change and referred to my Agri-Nature Foundation friends as a living example of this. It sounds radical and some may think painful. It’s only radical if you don’t feel some attunement to … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Climate change, Grassroots perspectives, Local resilience, Resilience, Thailand
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Back from Thailand: reflections on the need for transformational change
I’m back from Thailand and currently dealing with a chest infection. Travelling takes it toll, both on my health and on that of the planet. I live with these inconsistencies. From my arrival late on 19 October through to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Climate change, Grassroots perspectives, Local resilience, Reflections, Resilience, Thailand
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Back to Thailand
Earlier this year I had a phone call out of the blue from a friend in Thailand, Khun Wipa. I hadn’t spoken to her since 2007 when we were travelling and filming grassroots perspectives on climate change. She was phoning … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Climate change, Grassroots perspectives, Resilience, Thailand
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A letter of thanks
Dear Everyone!! Late last year my family and I made a decision … my older sister and I had sold our Mum’s small house in New Zealand. We had a choice, either pay off the mortgage on our own home … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation projects, England, Film project, Travel blog
Tagged Adaptation, Climate change, England, Grassroots perspectives
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Reflections from Stonehenge and Old Sarum
For most of our journey we’ve been experiencing warm, often very hot, weather. Not so since we came to England! Temperatures have been in the late teens to low 20s. There was flooding last week, including in Doncaster, South Yorkshire … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Climate change, England, Grassroots perspectives
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In London, journey nearly over
We arrived in London on Saturday (23 June), our journey almost over. There was a major scare at the airport in Paris. After doing an automatic check-in and passing through passport control we were in the queue to check in … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Climate change, England, Grassroots perspectives
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A man and his vines
Yesterday I met Jean-Pierre Caumont at the Montcuq market and bought some of his wine. This morning I drove to his farm to film an interview with him, most likely my only farmer interview in France and the last on … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation projects, Film project, France, Travel blog
Tagged Adaptation, Climate change, France, Grassroots perspectives, Resilience
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