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Category: politics

A Digital Commonwealth?

16th April 201818th March 2019 Gavin1 Commentbusiness, politics, socialchange

At the 2015 CHOGM in Malta I suggested it would be prescient to consider the future of the Commonwealth through a digital lens. At the […]

Arctic continues to lose oldest and thickest ice

17th October 201618th November 2016 Gavinclimate change, data, politics, science, socialchange

[via NSIDC] After a quick initial freeze-up during the second half of September, ice growth slowed substantially during early October. On October 20, 2016, Arctic […]

Ecocide

4th June 2016 Gavinbusiness, climate change, politics, socialchange, stuff, work

It’s almost as if “Destroying the Earth should be viewed as a crime.” The UN and Interpol report that environmental crime is a growing threat […]

Maxipok Zero – a quadrillion lives are in your hands

15th February 20139th September 2021 Gavinbusiness, climate change, politics, socialchange

A quadrillion lives are in your hands. We often hear people talk of “protecting future generations”. There is certainly a lot of value in thinking […]

AMEE at Strata – talk slides

2nd October 20129th November 2018 Gavinbusiness, climate change, data, energy, Environment, politics, presentations, science, socialchange, work

My slides from O’Reilly’s Strata conference “Making Data Work” today. I described some of AMEE’s journey: through open data aggregation and distribution, accessibility, provenance,  and […]

Occupy & Climate Change: Hansen, Buffet, Chomsky

1st May 201227th May 2012 Gavinbusiness, climate change, energy, politics, science, socialchange

Two pieces really struck me today. I think we can expect to see this form of direct action increasing. The issues (control of resource, environmental […]

Educational biomes?

10th April 201111th April 2011 Gavinpolitics, socialchange, stuff

I’ve got some thoughts about a different way to create a distributed education. One I think could break through silo’s in our Psychogeography and Biogeography. […]

RIP Dr David Fleming

5th December 20108th November 2018 Gavinbusiness, climate change, energy, politics, science, socialchange

A tragic and untimely loss. David is still a huge inspiration, his thinking, consideration and actions have touched so many people. I am glad we […]

In response to…. BBC Charter

4th March 200418th January 2012 Gavinbusiness, media, politics, socialchange, webcasting

In response to [published in the proceedings from] Westminster Media Forum “BBC 2016 Charter Renewal” meeting 2004-02-25 at Millbank Tower. Inverting the Model Working at […]

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