Tag Archives: deforestation

Cutting down on global deforestation

Posted on December 22, 2022 by John Gibbons

For as long as I can remember, we’ve been hearing about deforestation, usually expressed as an area of old-growth forest the size of x number of soccer pitches being lost per minute/hour. Globally, more than two billion hectares of forest … Continue reading →

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Overshooting ourselves in both feet

Posted on August 22, 2020 by John Gibbons

How much money have you got in your current account? What about your savings? Imagine if by now, you had already spent all your income for 2020, and you were forced to live on borrowings for the next four months. … Continue reading →

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Black, white – and green

Posted on June 29, 2009 by John Gibbons

Like most people whose musical influences were formed in the 1970s, I admired Michael Jackson as a musician, especially his 1979 solo album, Off the Wall. In the early to mid-1980s, he moved from pop star to icon, selling hundreds … Continue reading →

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