If you’re watching the rugby tomorrow, you need to read this

I have been getting lumps in my throat every single time I hear a RWC ad or the national anthem for about a week now. I walk into work to find banners on doors and people wearing scarves and jerseys. Green and Gold, and we’re going to obliterate the English. GO BOKKE!
Es muss sein, surely.
Last night, [...]

The problem with blogging for environmental change

This weekend’s Sunday Times – News & Opinion carried a syndicated article in which anti-globalisation doyenne Naomi Klein  dealt my excitement – if not determination – to blog for environmental change a bit of a blow. 
Klein, the critically acclaimed Canadian activist and author of No Logo, makes the following point about blogging as a medium:

As [...]

Changing the way we view change

 Change is not a static concept. It’s a politicised word, an emotionally loaded and politically engaged concept.
Conservative organisations and people who fear the future resist change. HR managers get trained to manage it, which in turn becomes the branded but somewhat ominous “change management”, a calculated process of minimising the damage impact of change on [...]