The pledge “At a public conference I won’t serve on a panel of two people or more unless there is at least one woman on the panel, not including the Chair.” Frequently asked questions What happens if we have tried to find women but there is nobody available? Try harder. […]
G and I hiked the Tour de Mont Blanc at the end of July, 2010. This is a well-known 100 mile (160km) hiking route through France, Italy and Switzerland. Timing We did the tour anticlockwise in eight days, which included tackling the higher passes (Col Des Fours & Fenetre d’Arpette). […]
Two hour drive from Addis with the current roadworks (2009). Very attractive gorge. Rocky path down to the river bed. Directions – Drive out on the Dessie Road to Sendafa (about 40km from Addis Ababa) where you will see a police station on the left. 15km after Sendafa turn right […]
2005 was to be the year of development. There have been some significant advances – particularly on debt relief and funding for vaccines. But overall, 2005 has not lived up to the ambitions that campaigners and some politicians had for it as a year of development. The last significant opportunity […]
Summary Sugars are simple, sweet-tasting carbohydrates. There are a number of different forms of sugar, each of which has a slightly different chemical structure. From the narrow point of view of where we get our energy, it does not matter much which sort of carbohydrates we eat: our body can […]
This comes to you from Mumbai, where I have had the privilege of attending the World Social Forum (WSF) over the last five days. The WSF began as an alternative to the World Economic Forum in Davos, which is a gathering of heads of state, senior business leaders and others, […]
July – August 2001, by Owen Barder & Grethe Petersen For the second year running, Grethe Petersen and Owen Barder travelled to Davos for the Davos Marathon, part of the annual running festival, and then set off on bikes for a two week cycling tour. This year the aim was […]
Cycling in the Swiss Alps and round the Italian Lakes in 2000. By Owen Barder and Grethe Petersen Background Though we are relatively fit, we we were not very experienced cyclists. We spent a couple of weeks in the Alps and Northern Italy in the Summer of 2000. These notes […]
Some papers (pdf files) Evidence and scale (remarks to the CIFF Board) Is Aid a Waste of Money? (article in Significance, the journal of the Royal Statistical Society) (or archive copy) Tough on Poverty, Tough on the Causes of Poverty – Europe’s world The courts can cut off Assad’s supply line – FT Article […]
Check the Trento bike pages for lots of information about bicycle touring and mountain biking in Europe and the Mediterranean. Introduction These notes describe the route that 3 CTC members, Owen Barder, Eleanor Grey and Steven Kovats, took from Bordeaux to Gerona in 1993. We are not experts in this […]