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Published articles - classified index:

  1. Community

  2. Globalisation

  3. Nonviolence

  4. Sustainability & Climate

  5. Land Reform

  6. Superquarries

  7. Epistemology

  8. Psychology

  9. PNG & Pacific

  10. Spirituality

  11. Consciousness

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[Letters to the Press]

[BBC Thoughts for the Day]

[Video interview climate change]

 

 

 

 

 

New This Past Year: [Radical Human Ecology - edited Ashgate textbook (Jan 2012)]  [Art, Poverty & Spirituality comment in The Guardian (Oct 2011)] [Archive for Kandinsky in Govan: Art, Spirituality & the Future (Oct 2011)] [Indigenous FPIC comment in Lafarge Sustainability Report (May 2011)] [Contributions to Poverty Truth Commission Report(s) (Apr 2011)] [Donald Trump poetic declamation (Feb 2011)] [Chapter in UK Defence Academy military textbook (Nov 2010)] [Selected Broadcast & Press Interviews (recent)] [BBC Thoughts for the Day (to date)]

 

Hello, and a warm welcome to the website of Alastair McIntosh. Thank you for visiting my homepage. Located in Glasgow, Scotland, I am an independent scholar, activist, writer, speaker and broadcaster from the Isle of Lewis; a Fellow of the Centre for Human Ecology (CHE), a director of the GalGael Trust and Visiting Professor of Human Ecology at the University of Strathclyde. See below for contact details and public itinerary. Use the tabs above for main themes, and the links to the left for a classified index and other navigational bearings.

 

What I Do and Why this Website (updated January 2011)

The purpose of this website is to represent myself professionally and to share with others the material that I have unearthed over more than three decades of exploration, action and reflection. It is a self-maintained amateur website that lacks the fancy bells and smells, but it functionally does the job.

The material you'll find here is a constantly growing range of work representing my field of human ecology - the study of and participation in the relationships between the natural environment and the social environment.

Some would define human ecology as simply being the relationships between population, environment, resources and development (PRED). I don't think this goes far enough. We need also to incorporate the psychological and spiritual context of what it means to be human beings. I therefore do human ecology with attitude. It is linked together by always asking such questions as, "Is what I'm doing now feeding the hungry?", "Is it relevant to the poor or to the broken in nature?", "Does it contribute to understanding and meaningfulness?", and the central spiritual question, "Does it give life?" 

 When you take an interest in major issues of our time, it's like pulling on a tangled ball of string. You can't unravel one loop until you've understood the interconnections with all the rest. As such, my work is extremely varied, but what joins it all up is a fundamental passion for that which gives life - with community that is social, ecological and even spiritual.

The backbone of what is on this site is my published work. You'll find the chronological listing of this on the "Published Articles" tab above, and an index classified by subject area in the column to the left. As these aren't always bang up to date, also check the "New Here" listing at the top of this page where I show what's been posted over roughly the past year.

This site is not a blog. Nearly all of what's on it has previously been published in print or editorially reviewed web media elsewhere. It has therefore been through third party peer reviewing or editing processes. It includes items that appeared in small local newspapers and national press features, academic papers in refereed scholarly journals, magazine contributions, published letters, reports, poetry and broadcast scripts (sometimes with audio).

There is also a section of 3rd party resource material where I've scanned or digitised important but documents, mostly out of print, that are essential to my work or for my students. I regret that I cannot accept unsolicited 3rd party material for this or requests for reciprocal web links.

 

Education, Writing, Campaigns & Activities

My school education was all on the Isle of Lewis (1960-73), I have a BSc in geography from the University of Aberdeen (1973-77), submajoring in psychology and philosophy, a financial MBA from the University of Edinburgh (1980-81) and a PhD by published works in liberation theology, land reform and community empowerment from the Academy of Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster (2008). For a summary CV click here.

My major books are  Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power (2001), Love and Revolution: Collected Poetry (2006), Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition (2008) and Rekindling Community: Connecting People, Environment and Spirituality.  These have variously been described as "world-changing" by George Monbiot, "inspirational" by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and "truly mental" by Thom Yorke of Radiohead ... but ask my wife for a more prosaic assessment.

My best-known work includes Scottish land reform especially with the Isle of Eigg (1990 - present), the Harris superquarry battle (1992 - 2004), the spirituality of community, identity, belonging and place (1986 - present), nonviolence and understanding war (1976 - present), the psychospirituality of climate change (2006 to present) and opening new directions in radical human ecology (1990 - present). For further information on my current work and campaigns click here.

Less well-known is my work with South Pacific education, development and ethnography (1980-91), sustainable tropical forestry (1984-95), micro-hydro electric and alternative energy (1978-86), the depth psychology of cigarette advertising (1995-96), the "Glasgow Two" release campaign with T.C. Campbell (1994 - 2000), NGO marketing, PR, finance & management (1980 - 1990), parapsychology and the psychology of consciousness (1973 - 1980), cultural psychotherapy, conflict and power analysis (1994 - present) and the GalGael Trust, urban poverty and cultural renewal (1997 - present).

 

Livelihood, Availability for Events and Travel Questions

Since 1996 I've made my living on an entirely self employed basis - writing, teaching courses and guest lecturing, keynote talks at events, broadcasting and consultancy.

For a rough idea of when I might be available, see my public itinerary. For information on how I suggest charging and what my approach is to travel in the face of climate change, click here.

Sometimes I work with unlikely bedfellows. As transparent financial accountability can be important for an activist under such circumstances, I annually state who pays me and how much at the link just given.

Places at which I have spoken or taught in recent years include the universities of Strathclyde, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Exeter, Bath, Cape Breton, Saskatchewan and Florida, the Russian Academy of Sciences (Economics Dept), INSEAD European Management School, the British Council, the Irish School of Ecumenics at the University of Ireland, the World Council of Churches, Groupe Credit Mutuel, Shell plc, Nokia Research Centre, Lafarge SA (where I sit on their Sustainability Stakeholders' Panel), the Edinburgh International Festival, the Schumacher Lectures and Schumacher College, Greenbelt Festival, the Society for Ecological Regeneration, Friends of the Earth, WWF International and UK, Australia's Rainforest Information Centre, Transition Towns, the Diocese of Liverpool, the Iona Community, the Scottish Crofting Foundation, International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the Learning and Skills Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Scottish Government, the Defence Academy's Joint Services Command & Staff College (on nonviolence), the Irish Military College and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.

 

Life and Work as of 2011

I live with my wife, Vérène Nicolas, in Drumoyne in the Greater Govan area of Glasgow in Scotland. We met in Ireland in 1996 where she was working on a farm, her background being in agriculture, economics and rural development. Her present freelance work is with learning aimed at the transformation of consciousness, conflict resolution, dance (she is a qualified Biodanza teacher), mentoring and popular education using the Training for Transformation approach from South Africa in which she is qualified and closely connected to its founders. For more see her website.

My own main areas of work for 2011 are:

bulletEvent speaking, broadcasting, teaching and consultancy  - examples in the itinerary below.
bulletI am actively involved in the local community here in Govan, especially as a founding director of the GalGael Trust. Here we use the building of boats and other engagement with the beauty of natural materials and human creativity to help people address deep-ranging forms of social violence such as comprise one of the main faces of poverty.
bulletOver the past year I have served as a Commissioner on Scotland's Poverty Truth Commission and this work will reach completion in 2011. My main interest has been with the subgroup on violence.
bulletAt the end of 2010 the Centre for Human Ecology (CHE) with which I have been closely involved since 1990 moved from Strathclyde University to a small office in the Pearce Institute in Govan. Although Vérène and I are no longer on the board or paid staff, we remain actively involved - as and when our former students, who are now running it, invite us to be.
bulletOne of the CHE's new activities is to explore alternative approaches to grassroots education with a network of other local organisations in Govan. As a contribution towards this principle of being of the "free university" I am organising a small international conference to be held the weekend of 23 October 2011 called Kandinsky in Govan: Art, Spirituality and the Future. Using the centenary of Kandinsky's book on art and the spiritual, this will explore the failure of 20th century art significantly to offer prophetic hope, and ask where future directions might be discerned.
bulletThrough CHE, the GalGael Trust and with the Kandinsky conference, a number of us locally are involved in constellating some of our work under the rubric of the Govan Folk University.
bulletMy work with the military on nonviolence is outwardly small - typically a couple of staff college lectures a year in Britain and Ireland - but staying on top of this is demanding. The final weeks of 2010 saw publication of my paper, "A Nonviolent Challenge to Conflict" in a textbook of military ethics produced for use in senior officer training by staff at the UK Defence Academy and the War Studies department of King's College, London. In engaging with the military over the past 14 years it has been my aim to get nonviolence on the table of what constitutes "security". To the military's credit, this has been allowed to happen. I watch with realistically muted hope to see how it develops.
bulletSince 2008 I've been working on my next major book provisionally called Poacher's Pilgrimage. It is about a 12-day walk (with a fishing rod, for disguise) through Harris and Lewis, my home area in the Outer Hebrides. The outward presentation is a travelogue, but its inner intent is to draw the reader into the story of our times especially as regards war, spirituality and the future unfolding of the human condition. Continuing to write this will be my main work this year. My biggest practical problem is holding the tension between doing the writing and being a writer - finding suitable time in which to let ideas unfold whilst being active out in the world, including earning a living. I am not currently seeking a publisher as I want to let it grow a bit more first. I have, however, been approached by several so I'm not worried on that front. The commercial side of my writing is handled by my literary agent, James Wills of Watson Little Ltd.
bulletJanuary 2012 sees the publication of an edited collection of scholarly papers, Radical Human Ecology: Intercultural and Indigenous Approaches. In 2008 I was approached by Ashgate, a major academic publisher, to compile and edit a "research companion" in human ecology. At the time I was speaking at a conference organised by Lewis Williams and Rose Roberts of the Department of Native Studies at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. They have ended up doing most of the work as the lead editors and I've tagged along as third editor. My chapter contributions are "The Challenge of Radical Human Ecology to the Academy" and "Teaching Radical Human Ecology in the Academy". It's been a very creative partnership and has given the opportunity to articulate a "radical human ecology" - radical as in "the root" - the rootedness in question being that of communities of place, often of indigenous peoples, including the valuing of their spiritually-based approaches to human and ecological knowledge. Lewis, Rose and I are especially honoured that the Foreword to this collection is by one of the world's most renowned figures in our field, Professor Richard Borden of the the Society for Human Ecology and holder of the Rachel Carson Chair in Human Ecology at the College of the Atlantic. He has written in the Foreword:

"Below the clamor of a bustling world, this volume imparts the seeds of a radical alternative for human ecology. They lie beneath surface: amid the whispered voices at the margin, in the praxis of traditional spirituality, along the dusty road of post-modernism, and from the ivy halls of science. This is not the human ecology of a prehistoric fireside or an academic symposium. It is an unconventional and timely pedagogy of hope."

 

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Contact Information:

 

Alastair McIntosh

26 Luss Road

Drumoyne

Glasgow

G51 3YD

Scotland / Ecosse

 

 

Tel: 0141 445 8750 (+44 141 from overseas)

Please try to avoid phoning outside weekday working hours. Remember timezones - we're in GMT or BST (summertime). Thank you, everybody, for not abusing my home number on the web like this.

 

My mobile is only used when travelling: +44 7717 085 817.

 

 

Email - mail@AlastairMcIntosh.com

 

 

Directions to our home/office:

 

Public Transport: If coming from central Glasgow, the easiest way if not coming by taxi (which costs around £10 from the city centre) is to take the subway (underground train) to Govan. Once there the bus station is right beside the subway. We're on routes No. 189, 90 or 45 leaving from the bus station and 26 leaving from Govan Road beside the bus station (opposite the bank). It's a five minute ride costing about £1. Get off at the second stop on Craigton Road, just past the little Post Office that's on the right hand side. Luss Road is the next street on the right another 100 yards up Craigton Road, and we're at no. 26, about half way along on the right. To get to our bus stop from other parts of Glasgow see the Social Work Services website here, scroll down for directions to their Govan Office on Ardlaw road, and our street, Luss Rd, is immediately opposite it, off Craigton Rd..

 

Alternatively, when you get to Govan subway station, take a taxi either from the stand diagonally opposite the subway station near the Pearce Institute, or from the taxi office which has a buzzer on the door beside the Brechin Bar. Or call for one on 0141 440 0001. Taxis up from Govan Cross to our place cost about £3.

 

If walking from the subway, the route is easier to describe if you get out at Ibrox station, which is one mile from our house. On exiting turn right onto Copland Road. Up to the lights and turn right. Pass alongside the Rangers football stadium, go straight on over the first roundabout, straight over the second roundabout, on to the lights, turn right down Craigton Road, and Luss Road is the 5th exit on the left (depending on what you count as an exit).

 

By Car: If coming on the M8 from east or west, exit at junction 24 (Helen Street), signposted for Govan. Head downhill and over the lights to a roundabout, as if heading to the Clyde Tunnel. Turn left at the roundabout then right at the lights into a residential area, Craigton Road (signposted to "Elderpark Workspace"). Luss Road is the 3rd on the left (or 4th depending on what you count). 

 

If coming by car from the North via the Clyde Tunnel, as you exit the tunnel prepare to take the first left just at the tunnel's end. Be careful - it comes on you very quickly and it's easy to overshoot. This brings you out onto Govan Road with a very large roundabout. Turn right at this, onto Drive Road, passing a Elder Park on your left. At the end of Drive road, keep the park on your left by turning left onto Langlands Road. Take the 3rd right, just before you lose the park, onto Arklett Road, then 2nd right is Luss Road.

 

Avoid the M8 approaches if you can when there's a football match on at Ibrox. There may also be parking congestion at such times. Taxi drivers from outwith this area do not know it well. Tell them that you want Luss Road which is off Craigton Road, and to take the Helen Street exit if coming from the M8.

 

The following newly added links to rare 3rd party resource material  are placed on the home page for Google to crawl:

Patrick's paper
 

 

 

Website keywords: Centre for Human Ecology - Action for Transformation Programme with Verene Nicolas - working with spirituality, community empowerment project, land reform, social justice, ecological justice, cultural regeneration, liberation theology, ecofeminism, deep ecology, interfaith, multiculturalism, combating Islamophobia, Quakerism, Quakers, transpersonal psychology, parapsychology, individuation, C.G. Jung, development, democratic intellect, GulfWatch, activist training, Training for Transformation, the Scottish constitution, St Andrew, saltire, Declaration of Arbroath, Isle of Eigg Trust, GalGael Trust, Iona Community, Isle of Lewis, Leurbost, Liurbost, Luirbost, Liurboist, Líurboist, Lurebost (does our village have an identity crisis?), North Lochs, Isle of Harris, Papua New Guinea, Highlands, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, Lingerabay superquarry, Lingerbay, Lafarge, Redland, People & Parliament, Embracing Multicultural Scotland, Carbeth Hutters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Orthodox Church, Schumacher Society, appropriate technology, micro-hydro electric, indigenous values, indigenous technologies, music, penny whistle, poetics, geopoetics, bard, bardic school and, of course, in the full Celtic tradition of Scots mythopoesis ... the faeries, fairies and faerie out from under the fairy hill.

 

Name spelling variants: Alastair Iain McIntosh, Alastair I. McIntosh, A. I. McIntosh, A. McIntosh, Alistair MacIntosh, Alastair MacIntosh, Alistair MacIntosh, Alastair Mackintosh, Alistair Mackintosh, Alasdair Mackintosh, Alistair McIntosh, Alasdair McIntosh, Mc Intosh, AlastairMcIntosh, Alisdair, Alister, Alligator (well, that's what Microsoft's spell-check suggests). 

 

 

Alastair McIntosh's Itinerary of Main Events

This table shows roughly which dates I'm booked up for. It also shows what sorts of events I take on (and doubles as a diary back-up). For an overview of my typical speaking topics click here. Gaps in the timetable do not necessarily signify availability, especially over weekends. Dates marked for delivery of Thought for the Day mean that I have to be near a BBC studio early that morning and have time on the previous day for preparation - though these dates can sometimes be swapped with another presenter. Information shown here on public events may be subject to change, so please check if you're thinking of turning up. For information on booking me for events please click here. Events marked "s.t.c." are "subject to consent/confirmation". 

2011 (last year)

This Year - 2012+

 

 

  1. Poverty Truth Commission Legacy Day, 10-4 Mon 17th Jan 2011, Pollokshaws Parish Church, Glasgow.

  2. BBC Radio Scotland Thought for the Day, 0720ish, Tue 25 Jan 2011.

  3. GalGael Trust Board, Govan, 5pm, 26 Jan 2011, s.t.c.

  4. Sharing with teachers at Dublin West Education Centre, afternoon of Thu 3 Feb, Citywest Hotel, Dublin.

  5. Keynote conference address on Education to Le Cheile Schools Trust, Citywest Hotel, Dublin, with youth on evening of 3rd and conference keynote on morning Fri 4 Feb 2011.

  6. Sharing with the St Louis Sisters on The Potential Role of Older Women in Spiritual Life, pm Fri 4 Feb (afternoon or evening, organised by Sr Catherine Brennan SSL).

  7. Conference address to Irish educators, Dublin West Education Centre, morning of Sat 5 Feb

  8. BBC Radio Scotland Thought for the Day, 0720ish, Thu 10 Feb.

  9. Iona Community Board, Edinburgh, 11am, Thu 10 Feb 2011.

  10. A Sharing on Burning Topical Issues with TweedGreen, Eastgate Theatre, Peebles, 7.30pm, Thu 10 Feb 2011.

  11. Presentations at One Planet Leaders training with WWF International & IMD at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland: After Dinner Address and The Pornography of Consumerism (in linked session with Niall Dunne of Saatchi & Saatchi), 10 - 11 March 2011.

  12. An open conversation with me and Andy Wightman, Glasgow's Common Good Day, Pearce Institute, Govan, Fri 18 Mar.

  13. Lafarge Sustainability Stakeholder Panel, Paris, 22-23 March and WWF International meeting 24 March.

  14. Delivering the Quakers & Business Lecture at annual conference of Quakers & Business, Friends Meeting House, Edinburgh, Sat 2 April 2011. Lecture title: Behind and Beyond the Pornography of Consumerism.

  15. Talk to Arran Civic Trust on Rekindling Community: Identity, Values and Place, Isle of Arran, 7.30, Thur 7 April, Arran High School.

  16. BBC Radio Scotland Thought for the Day, 0720ish, Thu 14 Apr.

  17. GalGael Trust Board, Govan, 5pm, 27 April 2011, s.t.c.

  18. Keynote address responding to film The Economics of Happiness at the Uist Eco Film Festival, Balivanich, away 29 Apr - 3 May - programme here.

  19. BBC Radio Scotland Thought for the Day, 0720ish, Tue 7 June.

  20. A Short Course in Liberation Theology, 7.30 pm, Tue 14 June, Glasgow, 1 of 3.

  21. Speaking at Arts & Humanities Research Council event, Environmental Writing and Action, Depts of Geography & Earth Sciences and English Literature, University of Glasgow, 17 June 2011.

  22. A Short Course in Liberation Theology, 7.30 pm, Tue 21 June, Glasgow, 2 of 3.

  23. Speaking to Strathclyde University Students' Union protest against departmental closures, Rottenrow Gardens, 2pm 22 June.

  24. A Short Course in Liberation Theology, 7.30 pm, Tue 28 June, Glasgow, 3 of 3.

  25. BBC Radio Scotland Thought for the Day, 0720ish, Thu 30 June.

  26. Speaking at the opening of the Big Shed, Loch Tay, Sat 2 July, afternoon.

  27. Speaking to Milton Keynes Christian Foundation, evening of Mon 4 July, approx 6pm.

  28. Speaking with Satish Kumar, Earth Pilgrim, Tue 5 July.

  29. Day conference with Martin Shaw in Devon on Ecology, Myth & the Notion of Hope, Wed 6 July, Devon, details an title t.b.c.

  30. Online seminar with West Papua local government officials and DFID, afternoon Fri 8 July.

  31. Rendition of O Donald Trump at Glasgow premiere of 'You've Been Trumped', Glasgow Film Theatre, 6pm Wed 13 Jul.

  32. Teaching course in Spiritual Activism for Schumacher North (open to bookings), Hebden Bridge, weekend 15-17 July.

  33. On holiday, France, 20 - 31 July.

  34. BBC Radio Scotland Thought for the Day, 0720ish,Wed 10 Aug.

  35. Family event - Aug 13-16 2011.

  36. GalGael Trust Board, Govan, 5pm, 24 Aug, s.t.c.

  37. BBC Radio Scotland Thought for the Day, 0720ish, Fri 9 Sept

  38. Quaker General Meeting Scotland - reporting on Iona Community Board, Sat 10 Sept 2011, s.t.c..

  39. Back to my old job: ghillie & hill work on Isle of Lewis, 10-21 Sept, mostly beyond email range.

  40. Introduction/welcome at CHE AGM, Pearce Institute, Govan, 2 - 4pm, Sat 24 Sept.

  41. Teaching on Ashridge MSc in Sustainability & Responsibility, Folly Farm Bristol, 28-29 September.

  42. Opening welcome address to the Nourish conference, PI, Govan, 0930, Fri 30 Sept.

  43. Keynote address at Fair World Alliance conference, Keswick, 7.30 pm Fri 30 Sept, Crosthwaite Parish Rooms, on Understanding Violence as the Root of Unfairness.

  44. Keynote address on community resilience to conference of EVH - Employers in Voluntary Housing, Crieff Hydro, 7-8 Oct.

  45. GalGael staff training in statistical reporting, 10 am, 13 Oct.

  46. BBC Radio Scotland Thought for the Day, 0720ish, Fri 14 Oct.

  47. Address to conference of Education Centres in Ireland, Dublin, Rekindling the Spirit of Communities, 14-15 Oct.

  48. Curating the weekend conference: Kandinsky in Govan: Art, Spirituality and the Future, 21-23 October 2011, Pearce Institute, Govan, Glasgow.

  49. Guest lecture to Environment & Society honours students, Uni of Strathclyde, Graham Hills 545, 10 am Thu 27 Oct.

  50. GalGael Trust Board & AGM, Govan, 5pm, 27 Oct.

  51. Anniversary celebration talk to Edinburgh Augustine Church, George IV Bridge, on The Spiritual Challenge of Environmental Issues, 7 pm, Wed 9 Nov, public access. 

  52. Iona Community Board, Edinburgh, 11am 10 Nov s.t.c.

  53. A Welcome to Govan to the Glasgow Allotments Heritage Project, 1000, Sat 12 Nov, Pearce Institute.

  54. Stakeholder Sustainability Panel meeting with Lafarge Executive, Lyon, 16-17 Nov 2011.

  55. Cawdor Seminar on Re-perceiving the Sacred in Nature, speaking on Faerie in Tradition as a Metaphor for the Imaginal Realm, Cawdor Castle, Inverness, Fri 18 - Sun 20 Nov.

  56. Presentation on Climate Change for the Govan Conversations, Govan Folk University, Pearce Institute, 22 Nov.

  57. BBC Radio Scotland Thought for the Day, 0720ish, Fri 25 Nov.

  58. Invited to preach  'a feisty sermon' in the St Andrew's Day Civic Service, Holy Trinity 'Troon' Kirk, St Andrews, 11 am Wed 30 Nov, on the theme: Saint Andrew: Patron Saint of Scotland, Feminism and Nonviolence.

  59. BBC Radio Scotland Thought for the Day, 0720ish, Wed 7 Dec.

  60. Forum on Sustainability, Spirituality and Justice with Satish Kumar et al., EICSP, Augustine Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, 6.30pm Sat 10 Dec.

 

  1. Closing conference keynote address on Nature, Human Nature & Time to Get Real to the Environmental Funders' Network, Chester, 19-20 Jan 2012.

  2. Post-hearing statement in support of Dr Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, Immigration and Asylum Chamber, 23 Jan 2012.

  3. Address at the Burns Supper of Legup/Govan Together, Pearce Inst., Tue 24 Jan, 2012.

  4. Historic Scotland executives' visit to GalGael Trust followed by Board meeting, 25 Jan.

  5. BBC Radio Scotland Thought for the Day, 0720ish, Wed 1 Feb.

  6. Keynote address at Connecting Communities event of Sustainable Mull & Iona, Sat 4 Feb and meetings on Iona, 5 Feb.

  7. Papua climate change Skype seminars 7-8 Feb.

  8. Iona Community Board, Edinburgh, 11am 9 Feb.

  9. Address on The Pornography of Consumerism to TweedGreen, Peebles, evening 9 Feb.

  10. On discussion panel with Nora Bateson to discuss film about Gregory Bateson, Remember the Future, 7pm, Fri 17 Feb, Stereo Cafe, Glasgow, £6.

  11. GalGael Trust board meeting, 5pm 22 Feb.

  12. BBC Radio Scotland Thought for the Day, 0720ish, Fri 24 Feb.

  13. Preaching sermon, Fairlie Parish Church of Scotland, Sunday 4 March.

  14. BBC Radio Scotland Thought for the Day, 0720ish, Fri 16 Mar.

  15. Webinar with WWF One Planet Leaders, 20 March.

  16. Speaking at Department of Education, National University of Ireland (Maynooth), 21-22 March.

  17. Speaking on climate change to WCSF Europe, Bratislava, Slovakia, 29 -31 March.

  18. Lafarge Sustainability Panel, Paris, 1 - 2 April.

  19. BBC Radio Scotland Thought for the Day, 0720ish, Tue 3 Apr.

  20. CHE anniversary event, south of England, 4 - 6 May, s.t.c..

  21. BBC Radio Scotland Thought for the Day, 0720ish, Tue 8 May.

  22. Speaking at Values in Transition conference, Exeter University, 12 May.

  23. Running Papua Climate Change & Community Resilience training programme - Scottish Highlands, sometime over period 21 May - 4 June, t.b.c..

  24. BBC Radio Scotland Thought for the Day, 0720ish, Tue 29 May.

  25. Address on nonviolence in day on 'The Realities of Conflict' on the Advanced Command & Staff Course, Joint Services Command & Staff College, UK Defence Academy, Shrivenham, 14 June.

  26. BBC Radio Scotland Thought for the Day, 0720ish, Thu 21 Jun.

  27. Speaking/workshops at various venues in North America - approx 6 - 19 July s.t.c. in upper New York State and Tatamagouche Centre, Nova Scotia over w/end 13-15th Jul on theme Spiritual Activism: Soil & Soul.

  28. S.t.c. address to Ecocongregations Ireland, Dromantine, Newry, Co. Down, 14 - 15 Sept.

  29. Address to Active Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, Rekindling Community: People, Land and Re-creation, Tue 18 Sept.

  30. Leading a week on The Pilgrimage of Life at Iona Abbey, Sat 22 - Fri 28 Sept (fully booked, waiting list here).

  31. Address at Kaleidoscope Festival, St Andrews, 30 Sept s.t.c.

  32. Public lecture to the Islands Book Trust, The Island's Greatest Export - a Personal Exploration of Spiritual Values, An Lanntear, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Tue 2 Oct, s.t.c. and possibly on island all week.

  33. Iona Community Board, 1100, 25th Oct, Edinburgh.

  34. Lafarge Sustainability Stakeholders Panel, Paris, Tue 20 Nov.

  35. Possible lecture in Kildare, Ireland, on St Bridgit and war, sometime first week of Feb 2013.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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