When we were planning the Do Lectures last year, it was tough to get the funding together to pay for accommodation, speaker’s travel, filming, hosting and everything else that was needed to put the event on. We managed to the right things when they were need by taking each opportunity as it came our way. [...]

There’s an interesting perspective in biomimcry which goes against what most people understand about evolution – that there’s not much true competition in nature. Why not? It’s too expensive on resources, and much more effective to find your niche, and exploit it so that you get an unfair advantage on your own turf. Srth Goldin’s [...]

A couple of days back, the Wales Audit Office released a long-awaited report into the way that Wales’ public servants in government were delivering the goods on making sustainable development happen. I sat on the Reference Group for this study, and am pleased to see that the sentiments raised by the group are present in [...]

Next Friday sees the launch of a new combined research project that’s been exciting us here for some time. The project’s start was at the Hay on Earth food workshop in May last year, when we brought together aronud 65 leading food thinkers to consider the practical challenges of moving towards food sustainability and security [...]

Gerald Miles, GM-free campaigner, organic farmer and Do speaker, posted this interesting snippet recently: Agrimoney.com [UK], 18 January 2010: http://www.agrimoney.com/news/italy-is-weak-point-of-europes-anti-gm-defences–1227.html Italy is the Achilles heel of the campaign to maintain Europe’s defences against genetically modified crops, a US report has said, adding that the region’s consumers are not as opposed to the technology as is [...]

Seth Godin wrote some concise words about where marketing really happens. Here’s a couple of the most interesting lines: Marketing is what happens when you’re not trying, when you’re being transparent and when there’s no script in place. It’s not marketing when everything goes right on the flight to Chicago. It’s marketing when your people [...]

The money and commercial interest behind GM crops can steamroller some things – Percy Schmeiser for instance – but unsurprisingly, it can’t steamroll the weeds that – can you believe it – have evolved to cope with the Roundup herbicide provided by Monsanto. The GM giant started by blaming farmers for using too much Roundup, [...]