I got curious about what’s happened to global interest in the SDGs since they were agreed in 2015, so I ran a Google Trends analysis on it. Top line: turns...
Alex Evans
Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017).
He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development.
Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.
What kinds of personal transformation help to drive system transformation?
What kinds of personal transformation help to drive whole system transformation? That was just one of the questions explored at a fascinating event hosted by...
Myths for an age of political polarisation
Want to change the world? Then what you need most isn’t facts; it’s a really great story. So I argued in a book called The Myth Gap (summary here), which came...
10 thoughts on the future of activism
So here are 10 thoughts on the kind of activism we need at a point of widespread crisis and deep polarisation - a distillation of what I've been thinking...
Vote remain – winning the home front
I've been posting a ton of stuff in favour of remaining in the EU on Facebook and Twitter in recent weeks. So have most of us, given that we're young(ish) and...
9 take aways from COP21
Having attended COP21 as a member of the Ethiopian delegation, I've been meaning to write up a post with some take-aways and reflections on the outcome, and...
The coolest thing I’ve been involved in (in a very small way) this year
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN1eSMXI_6Y[/youtube] Ever since I was very small, I've always just been crazy, crazy, crazy about space. I still...
Yes, Jeremy Corbyn is a disaster. That’s not a reason to bomb Syria
Like many Labour members, I despair of the direction in which Jeremy Corbyn is taking the party. Back when he was elected, I wondered whether he had a plan...
What Diane Abbott gets wrong about Jo Cox’s proposals on Syria
Oh dear. So these people want to join with the Tories & vote to bomb Syria @jo_cox1@JWoodcockMP #sad http://t.co/WRAg4FwjUc — Diane Abbott MP...
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What a joy to be able to think about something other than the Sustainable Development Goals for a change...
Quoted without comment
If anything, I have had to keep empathy at bay. It is such a saturation of suffering that somehow as a journalist you have to harden yourself, otherwise it...
NGO air miles? Whose bright idea was THAT?
Remember a time when people went out and joined hands in the streets to demonstrate their passion about the issues they cared most about? Well, forget all...
10 thoughts on Jeremy Corbyn’s win
1.Whatever you think about Jeremy Corbyn, it is kind of astonishing to see a party leader who goes straight from being elected to participating in a march for...
The state of the climate movement
This is the text of a talk I gave today at Save the Children as part of their #changehistory series, organised by Campaigns Director (and fellow...
Why the SDGs flunk the partnership test
Among the many useful elements of this year’s OECD Development Cooperation Report on partnerships, which is out today, is a handy 10 point checklist for what...
What transformation looks like
Over the years I've frequently been a source of amusement to my wife Emma, but rarely more so than when I came home from work at DFID one day a decade or so...
A problem for every solution on climate
It frustrates me so much that UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres was rubbishing the idea of a carbon budget two years ago, even as the IPCC was...
Labour and the vision thing
Some of my best friends are spads. But it may be that they are just not suited to leadership. Spads are great at schmoozing and PR. Some may even be good at...
5 flashing warning lights on the dashboard of the global humanitarian system
In case you hadn't noticed, these are extraordinary times for the global emergency relief system, which has never looked more overstretched. 5 facts lifted...
Bill, Melinda, and the SDGs
About a week ago, the Humanosphere blog caused something of a stir in development circles with a piece on the UN's draft Sustainable Development Goals...
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