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Alex Evans
Alex Evans is a Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University, and the author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren't Enough? (Penguin, 2017), a book about the power of deep stories to unlock transformational change. He lives in North Yorkshire and is currently working on political polarisation and learning dry stone walling. Full biog here.
World Bank vs UNCTAD
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Facebook fail (episode 2)
Episode 1 here.
Who will point out that the CDM emperor has no clothes?
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David Cameron: “I f**king hate politicians”
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Support for suicide bombing in freefall among Muslim publics
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Down with collapse!
Enough already with all the talk of ‘collapse’, ‘descent’, ‘powerdown’. How about talking about ‘renewal’, ‘transformation’, ‘renaissance’?
The moment of the Bali climate summit breakthrough, 2007
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-G1v--DONM[/youtube]
The sound of pennies dropping
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Walthamstow overrun! [by sloppy journalism, that is]
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Glenn Beck’s next targets
Former White House chief of staff John Podesta (now at the Center for American Progress) is far from happy about the ejection from the White House of Van...
Let the dialogue commence…
I take it all back. Within moments of publishing the post below about the naked protestors at Edelman, not one but two Edelman employees were in touch via...
Public relations fail
Public relations firm Edelman is very proud of its crisis management practice. As its website says: Companies must address parallel challenges which must be...
Environmental extremists are trying to destroy your jobs
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiAc5IVXI7g[/youtube]
Jose Ramos Horta on E Timor: “In 20 years, we’ll be killing each other over land and water”
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NGOs and climate change: shall we all just go home?
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Scarcity, security and institutional reform
Presentation by Alex Evans to a seminar organised for the UN Department of Political Affairs by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (August 2009)
Scarcity as a non-traditional security threat
I spent yesterday morning presenting on scarcity issues - water, food, energy, land and climate security - to staff from the UN Department of Political...
John Prescott still doesn’t get it
He didn't get it at Kyoto - and he doesn't get it now. John Prescott - former British Deputy PM, and its lead negotiator at the 1997 Kyoto climate summit - is...
Down with special advisers!
From Daniel Finkelstein in The Times, a sad tale: "They needed a room with proper ventilation so that the security guards could make bacon sandwiches without...
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