Geography and all that Jazz

GA Magazine The latest edition of the GA Magazine is now available to download from the GA website (you need to log in first...) This is a particularly good issue, but then I have to declare an interest: I edited the issue, along with David Rayner. In addition to the usual features, such as a particularly good Webwatch, there are some feature pieces on the concept of INTERDEPENDENCE . The middle section was the bit I edited. Highlights of the issue include: "Thinking inside the box": an article on the BBC 'box' project by me "Connecting Classrooms": an article by Graham Goldup on a project to develop a school link with Arusha, Tanzania & Brighton schools "Windwards Revisited": an article by Martin Crabbe on the ongoing links that he has maintained following a trip to the Windward Islands in 2005 "Interdependence Day": a summary of the report by Joe Smith of the Open University "Food glorious food - but for how much longer ?...

Interdependence Day Seminar Sheffield University Geography Department - 18th November - 4.15pm Thanks to Dr. Tariq Jazeel for inviting me to yesterday's seminar by Dr. Renata Tyszczuk from the Architecture department of the University of Sheffield on the Interdependence Day project , which looks at the nature of global environmental change, as we enter the era that has come to be known as the Anthropocene : one of human landscape- alteration and environmental instability. It explored interdependence as framework for discussion on human alteration of the world. It also featured the Mappae Mundi project This project is currently being developed with partners at the Open University and is a cross-disciplinary venture between Geography and Architecture, between `writing the earth´ and `making place´. Its ambition is to `put stories back into maps´. Renata talked about 2 events at the Royal Geographical Society, and the publication “Do good lives have to cost the earth ? Also passed ...

If you have the chance to get to the RGS on Saturday 20th of October , there is what sounds like a fascinating day. INTERDEPENDENCE DAY In a host of talks, workshops, music, film, art and games, Interdependence Day will explore what it means to live in an interdependent world. For anyone who cares about the earth and the people we share it with. The new and extraordinary challenges that lie before us at the start of the twenty-first century - creeping globalisation, climate change, seemingly unstoppable and impossible to fully comprehend - can appear beyond the control of any one person. Finding ways to take a fresh approach to the defining questions of our time are the inspiration for Interdependence Day 2007. Speakers : Mark Lynas , author of High Tide: the truth about our climate crisis , Anuradha Vittachi , co-founder of the Oneworld Network, Andrew Simms , policy director of nef and author of Tescopoly: How one shop came out on top and why it matte...