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Category: politics

A Digital Commonwealth?

Posted 16th April 201818th March 2019 Gavin1 CommentPosted in business, 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

Posted 17th October 201618th November 2016 GavinPosted in climate 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

Posted 4th June 2016 GavinPosted in business, 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

Posted 15th February 20139th September 2021 GavinPosted in business, 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

Posted 2nd October 20129th November 2018 GavinPosted in business, 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

Posted 1st May 201227th May 2012 GavinPosted in business, 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?

Posted 10th April 201111th April 2011 GavinPosted in politics, 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

Posted 5th December 20108th November 2018 GavinPosted in business, 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

Posted 4th March 200418th January 2012 GavinPosted in business, 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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