by pennyurquhart | Nov 13, 2020 | Africa, climate change, climate conversations, food security and climate change
Chef Pierre Thiam. Photograph provided by Pierre Thiam. “Fonio never embarrasses the cook.” Pierre Thiam, world-renowned Senegalese chef and culinary ambassador, is cooking this ancient African grain from his “Covid kitchen” in Berkeley, while I and some 30-odd...
by pennyurquhart | Oct 20, 2020 | adaptation, climate change, climate change policy, climate conversations, climate governance, Uncategorized
I met up with Professor Guy Midgley on a sunny winter’s day in August 2018 – in his office at the University of Stellenbosch. Formerly at the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), he was instrumental in developing South Africa’s policy responses to...
by pennyurquhart | Jan 29, 2019 | climate change, climate conversations, environment, Uncategorized
This is Part 2 of my conversation with evolutionary and behavioural biologist Professor Camille Parmesan, of Plymouth University and the SETE/CNRS Ecology Centre in Moulis, France, in which Camille talks about the moments when she realised how severely climate change...
by pennyurquhart | Dec 21, 2018 | climate conversations, climate governance, Uncategorized
When I spoke to evolutionary and behavioural biologist Professor Camille Parmesan in Plymouth in the dog days of the northern summer of 2018, I was under no illusion of the severity of our climate change situation. Talking to her further crystallised some of my own...
by pennyurquhart | Jul 26, 2018 | climate change, climate conversations, environment, Uncategorized
Part 2 of my conversation on climate with Ani Tsondru, Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition, continues her story after she had spent more than seven years in closed retreat in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Spain. Tsondru describes how the lack of a supportive...
by pennyurquhart | Jul 19, 2018 | climate conversations, Uncategorized
My latest conversation on climate was with Tsunma Tsondru, a Tibetan Buddhist nun living in Cape Town and Spain. As Christine Jardine, she completed undergraduate studies in microbiology in the late seventies at Rhodes University, and then transferred to the...
