The Hay Literary Festival is not so much a festival of books as of writers, and celebrity writers at that. It’s an opportunity to hear first hand from some real experts. This year’s insights provided a de facto ‘state of the planet’ briefing from a programme in which climate, environment and sustainability featured large. But […]
by Bill Streever Climate change has drawn the attention of sentences, pages, and books beyond counting. Perhaps still more literature is needed. After all, some people—even a few who not only know how to read but who do read—have yet to be convinced about the science. Yet there remains for writers and publishers the challenge
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A report from Sheffield DocFest Has climate, environment and the collapse of global ecosystems dropped off the agenda? To judge from the programme at this year’s SheffieldDocFest you could be forgiven for thinking so. Of some 120 documentary films screened not one could be considered ‘environmental’. Well, not quite true. ‘Between the Rains’, a Kenyan
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