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The Avery household was thrown into paroxysms of self-doubt, mutual recrimination and abject shame when our recycling was rejected by the bin emptiers with a red tag of shame almost two weeks ago. We’re hoping to make the grade this week. Of course it was my fault. I had put a bag which I regarded…

IOE, UNEP and ADIDAS RUNTASTIC CHALLENGE one million people to outrun a real tiger, elephant or pangolin Internet of Elephants is partnering with Adidas Runtastic, the United Nations Environment Programme, and three conservation organizations to launch Run Wild, a digital challenge that activates the global running community to show support for critical policy change at…

‘Nearly’ has an interesting meaning here – over six weeks of reviewing a petition of fewer than 60 words. Many petitions, and I do hope this one, take much less time to reach 100,000 signatures than they do to get reviewed by the Petitions Committee. It’s about Badgers, by the way.

On Wednesday afternoon I was chairing a meeting of the World Land Trust’s trustees. This was, of course, over the internet with all of its disadvantages and advantages. It’s the third such meeting I’ve chaired and we are all getting used to it. One of our number was dialling in from the Uists but the…

…in London… …was in February. That’s amazing – it must be several decades since I went six months without entering our capital city. Do I miss it? Not much. Do I miss the people I used to meet there – yes, some of them. Were all my journeys really necessary? No. Will I return to…