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What does designing for life mean in practice? Who is doing it? How we can help? I write, talk, and advise. We also host offsite/retreats here in France .

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Craig Murray's @CraigMurrayOrg report from Venezuela offers a counter-point to the propaganda about what is really going on on the ground. Worth a read

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Being There – In Venezuela

I have now been in Caracas for 48 hours and the contrast between what I have seen, and what I had read in ...

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Being There – In Venezuela - I have now been in Caracas for 48 hours and the contrast between what I have seen, and what I had read in the mainstream media, could not be more stark.

I drove right through Caracas, from the airport through the city

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26 Jan 2015843503729750056

It took 96 weeks and thousands of volunteers to clean up Versova Beach in Mumbai, India. The payoff? Hundreds of thousands of seaturtles hatching this week. First time in decades. Anything can be cleaned!

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Applications are now open http://www.dbewaward.com

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