Archive for March, 2009

Tasty paradox

We’re still editing the draft scenarios, which is stimulating and tricky, like all the best tasks. We’ll be talking about them here very soon: in the meantime, here’s a tiny injection of the sort of thing we won’t be talking about (at least, not right now):

Today for lunch we had Cream of Itself Soup. [...]

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Drowned World on BBC 7

While we’re putting together the scenarios from the last meeting of the BCH Advisory Group, here’s a more involved future world: JG Ballard’s Drowned World on BBC7 (UK only, available till Sunday). Published in 1962, it’s worth attention as a source for another mythic strand to draw on in response to a warming climate: it’s [...]

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