Greening the economy

Rowan Williams' message for the Rio+20 conference

If the world is a gift how to hand it on to future generations?

Responding to Global Poverty

A few weeks back I mentioned that St Michael's Macclesfield were doing a series on How Should We Then Live, the talks, so far(in mp3 form), are up on Graham Turner's website together with the presentations,. I've heard the Mike Woolcock on 'Responding to Global Poverty' and it is strongly recommended (by me anyway!).

Silent witness

From Stan's Cafe and Greenbelt comes this moving piece:

Piles of rice of greatly varying sizes represented groups of people throughout the world, one grain for each person. The rice pile for refugees was almost exactly the same size as the pile for millionaires. Imagine if each millionaire funded one refugee (not much money per person). The biggest pile in the whole room was people living with HIV/Aids in sub-Saharan Africa.

Hat tip (and quote from ) Maggi Dawn
.. Of all the people in all the World..

Oxfam

It is Oxfam's first bookfest, go along to the Guardian where there's wonderful poem by Carol Ann Duffy marking the event.

...Pair of spectacles (longsight) £3. P/b Fieldnotes from a Catastrophe:
Report on Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert (hindsight) 40p.
Jade earrings and necklace, somewhere a mother, £20, brand new
gentleman's suit, somewhere a brother, £30. Everything Fairtrade.

Better still go along to Oxfam and buy some books! They looked good when I was in the local shop on 4th.
Thanks to Sylvia R-J for mentioning the poem which I'd missed in my read of the paper this weekend!