Just in from a super-rapid trip to Costa Rica, where I keynoted a conference celebrating the tenth anniversary of the sustainability initiative at the major regional bank BAC Credomatic. Literally dozens of invitations to come back – and very much minded to do so. Wonderful people, wonderful model of what the rest of Central and South America could do to raise their sustainability games.
Four flights were a welcome opportunity to catch up on reading: James Wolff’s Beside the Syrian Sea; Robert Olen Butler’s Perfume River; and Robin Robertson’s The Long Take.
All remarkable in their own ways and, now I think about it, all to do with the direct or indirect effects of war: The Long Take WWII, Perfume River the Vietnam War, and Beside the Syrian Sea the war that has raged for years in one of my favourite countries.
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