AV Nicoll

Environmentalist, writer, explorer, lawyer. Co-founder of Berkeley Energy, developing renewable energy in emerging markets, author of Riding the Ice Wind

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@steviedubyu This is heart (wood) breaking thread Steve.

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‘How are you?’ The present times bring our traditional greeting into focus. Perhaps it’s origins were not so much solicitous of another but protective of yourself... can you advance to grasp a hand?

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@RobGMacfarlane @fredbahnson @emergence_zine @evaughanlee Great choice Rob. I agree it was a deeply inspiring piece of work and led me to discover Merton who I hadn’t heard of, thanks Fred.

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@RobGMacfarlane @Rebeccamead_NYC Queen Maud Land, Antarctica...!

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@Al_Humphreys Oh and Mountain by Rob Macfarlane and Renan Ozturk; Cultural vertigo, unbelievable cinematography and score.

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@Al_Humphreys Man on Wire - danger, adrenalin and the effect of sudden overnight celebrity. When We Were Kings - fusion of boxing, music and wider culture.... Ali as sporting witch doctor... Searching for Sugarman - humility and talent, obscurity and fame. Thanks for great thread

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@india_bourke Yes. Climate solutions need collusion not a battleground. We’re so used to Manichaean narratives of good v evil we have to find enemies, non-believers, meat-eaters, oil companies in our stories to energise us for a struggle yet we need positive change not entrenchment

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@RobGMacfarlane @StanleyDonwood Congratulations! Auspicious-ness

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Twitter is a tribal and hate-filled place. I prefer David Rushkoff’s vision of creating a social network that instead of teaching us to ‘see people as adversaries teaches us to see adversaries as people’

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@fredbahnson @emergence_zine Can’t wait for this, Fred. Travelled there a lot and so excited by this story and what you’ll do with it.

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@BearGrylls @Al_Humphreys 🙏👍

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@Al_Humphreys Thanks @Al_Humphreys .... much appreciated, I’m following your current adventures with interest...

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@alastaireykyn @martynewilliams @KT_Ten10 @rugbyworldcup @alastaireykyn and you’re not half bad yourself

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In Singapore. Not a single #climatestrike here. Amazingly apathetic, wow - and in a country with terrible smog, euphemistically called ‘haze’, caused by slash and burn in Indonesia for palm oil....

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What an unbelievably depressing article... what a purblind species we are.... ‘Amazon deforestation accelerating towards unrecoverable 'tipping point'. https://t.co/n7QRvDJ2Xq

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@evaughanlee Another brilliant article @ChelseaScudder such an interesting inter-weaving of Hawaiian myth and language... the fire at your back....

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European satellite agency concludes that June was the hottest month ever recorded on earth, our planet.
https://t.co/qesjAC5yHn

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@fredbahnson @RobGMacfarlane @emergence_zine I enjoyed this very much, Fred. It’s so wide ranging. The mackerel moor is scintillating and the final reading of Skylark from the Lost Words is very moving.

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@languagemaking Thanks David. I’ll make a plan!

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@languagemaking Hi David, I’m in the UK. Is your book language making nature published there yet and if so how can I get it? Al