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Tomorrow's Kent: keeping the lights on - Speech to the Bay Trust, St Margaret's Bay, Kent, at the Pines Calyx Conference Centre, 20 April 2010.
Alive: the human future - speech on the occasion of the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, 1 May 2010.
Development: what it should mean - speech on the occasion of the SAFAD Annual Seminar, University of Cranfield, Thursday 6 May 2010.
Environment: science & politics - speech on the occasion of the St Andrews Prize for the Environment ceremony, St Andrews: 12 May 2010.
The future of cities: hazards and environmental change - the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, at the British Museum, 14 January 2010. "We all suffer from the disease of what has been called conceptual sclerosis. Little is more difficult than learning to think differently, above all when problems go to the roots of the conventional wisdom. Old ideas haunt us like ghosts. It is time now to turn to the future of our species in a world which is changing before our eyes ... "
The theory of evolution: 150 years afterwards - a Distinguished Lecture in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species as published in Contributions to Science, 5 (1): 11-16 (2009) [Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, DOI: 10.2436/20.7010.01.55]. PDF version, with Spanish translation.
Mexico and Latin American Climate Protection Programs operated by the Climate Institute. These include the Sir Crispin Tickell Climate Observatory, the world's highest climate observatory (15,000 ft/4500 m) atop Sierra Negra in Pico de Orizaba National Park in the State of Puebla; the Tickell Observatory Education and Outreach Center in Flor del Bosque, an environmental education park in Puebla; and the Tickell Interactive Network of education and outreach centers.
Conversations with Green Gurus - Promo film for the book of the same name on Youtube. "The collected wisdom of some of the world's most influential environmental movers and shakers is brought together in this one book. Interviewees include energy guru Amory Lovins, former Friends of the Earth Vice Chair Tony Juniper, diplomat Sir Crispin Tickell and business leader Ray Anderson, among others. The end result is an illuminating insight into both general views on sustainability as well as good and bad business decisions made in the search for sustainability.
The challenge is clearer than ever - the response has yet to come - A review of The Economics and Politics of Climate Change, edited by Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn. Oxford University Press 2009 538 pp. Published in the Financial Times 28 November 2009.
Sustainability in China: attitudes past, present and future - Address to the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, at the Naval and Military Club, St James's Square, 23 November 2009.
