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A new series of four podcasts on Culture and Climate Change is now online at iTunes U. The discussions bring together artists, writers, film-makers, scientists, academics and journalists with a comedian, a choreographer, a campaigner, and an entrepreneur. The Mediating Change series is hosted by Quentin Cooper and contributors include Tim Many had considered climate change an impossible subject to dramatise. But two new plays that opened at the Bush in May proved them wrong. Steve Waters talks to Robert Butler about ‘The Contingency Plan’, his double-bill of plays about climate change, and how they were inspired by James Lovelock, the 1953 floods, and the Transition @climateboom and @ashdenizen have started a thread on Twitter discussing the literature of climate change, using the hashtag #climelit. So far the reading list includes: read more] Resilience, one of the two plays that form The Contingency Plan by Steve Waters Given that theatre presents itself as a form that is profoundly engaged in the politics of the Ed Miliband’s summer reading from RSA Arts & Ecology on Vimeo. It was Robert Butler of the Ashden Directory who spotted what Ed Miliband had tucked under his arm as he came to announce the winners of the first TippingPoint Commision awards… Robert Butler of the Ashden Directory notes William Sidelsky’s review of the Oxfam-produced short-story collection Ox-tales: Air, Water, Fire and Earth in yesterday’s Observer. The review recognises that climate change is becoming a something recurring theme for modern writers: A masterclass in this respect is offered by Helen Simpson’s “The … Go Later today I’ll be putting up our own review of Steve Waters’ new double-bill of plays about climate change The Contingency Plan, but in the meantime take theatre critic and environmental blogger’s Robert Butler of the Ashden Directory’s word forf it. These plays, he says, are “terrific”. If there’s one At the Ashden Directory blog Robert Butler writes about Mohammed Yunus, founder of Bangladesh’s Gameen Bank, and deliverer of Thursday night’s Ashden Awards lecture: Impossible not to compare two bankers – Sir Fred Goodwin and Mohammad Yunus – two world |
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