A poem composed by Bruce Gulland for World Environment Day 5th June and Clean Air Day 20th June. I wonder, is there a solution – to toxic air pollution?What’s your take, does it faze you, shock or amaze you?Fond illusions shatter? – to ponder particulate matter?These gases afflict masses, in …
JRI is pleased to announce the publication of Briefing Paper number 40, ‘All that we are’ by Samuel Perilla, a member of the Cross Current Environmental Sciences group. Starting with a selection of verses from Psalm 104, Perilla asks the question ‘Why don’t we, Christians, take care of this planet …
We held our JRI/CRES Study Day on Rewilding, on Saturday 27th April 2019, at Ripon College, Cuddesdon, near Oxford. It was the biggest meeting we have ever held at the college, with over 60 people present. After an introduction from Dr Martin Hodson, our first speaker was Revd Prof Andrew …
Martin and Margot Hodson were interviewed by Mike Naylor for BBC Three Counties Radio on Sunday 19th May 2019 between 8.00am and 8.30am. The 20-minute discussion was wide-ranging, covering climate change, biodiversity loss, some theology and what we can do about the problems. We are grateful to the BBC for …
A Poem for World Bee Day 2019 by Bruce Gulland: Miniature motor, mellifluous drone, as I doze in my deckchair knowing I’m not alone, On a bee-balmy indolent May afternoon, it comforts me to know you’re going nowhere too soon, Contented customer, shopping bags in your legs, spot a pot …
It is now ten years since I started working for JRI, first as Operations Manager and more recently as Operations Director, and so it seems appropriate to review that time and look a little into the future. I was appointed not long after JRI had conducted a major strategy review, …
