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Do you speak German? No? Well don’t worry. My 3-page piece on Green Swans for Verantwortung magazine, backed by the FAZ Institute, is now out. The magazine is in German, but my piece is in English. For more, see here. Now to brush up on the language of Goethe.

Here’s a longer version of the conversation I had with Roger Atkins in our Barnes kitchen on Friday, 24 July. Quite pleased with the way it turned out – but even more delighted with the Open D tuning Roger left me with. This version is on Roger’s website – and is due to go up on LinkedIn within days.

An interview I did a while back has appeared in Comunicarse, published in Argentina, Chile and Costa Rica.

I often wonder if my tinnitus dates back to hearing early bands like The Who, The Move and, by far the loudest folk-rock band at the time, Fairport Convention.

Their singer in those early days was Judy Dyble, whose voice I loved on tracks like Time Will Show The Wiser and Reno Nevada. But my favourite track on that album was It’s Alright Ma, It’s Only Witchcraft – which made it into my spoof Desert Island Discs, to be found elsewhere on this site.

Sadly, Judy died on 12 July. A decent obituary can be found in The New York Times.

Here’s a WEF Forum blog co-authored by WBCSD CEO Peter Bakker and I, but with huge thanks to Richard Roberts of Volans and Julian Hill-Landolt of WBCSD.