Big Wide World

Busy busy, so more linkage

Things are all up in the air at Big Wide Towers – I’ve been packing to move, writing about human rights, and being a pretty hopeless blogger. Sorry.

So here are some more recent links I liked, with a promise of more updates soon…

Linkage

Links I’ve found, so you don’t have to.

Global reading

News websites worth a look for coverage of international, environmental, development and other issues – or just randomness.

Want a career in International Development? Get real.

Highlights, recommendations, lessons and links from this week’s Positive Change International Careers Conference at LSE.

This week’s reading

This article in Red Pepper Magazine discusses the possibility of a state-managed green investment bank, or at least greater public involvement in state recapitalised banks, after it has emerged that RBS has loaned over $2.7bn to companies involved with oil extraction from Canada’s tar sands. Here’s a fantastic infographic describing brain development, done in the [...]