By James on October 6, 2009
Tags: sustainability
My name is James Bruges but hyphenated with my wife, Marion, as Wells-Bruges at Redland Meeting. I have served on the Quaker Economics Issues Group. I was an architect in Bristol and then took to writing. The Little Earth Book kept me busy through four editions. The Big Earth Book followed. I have just finished a Schumacher Briefing called The Biochar Debate. I am a member of FEASTA, the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability. With Marion, we keep in touch with some NGOs in southern India whose founders got their inspiration from Gandhi.
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Dear James,
Excited to hear of your new book from IBI. I would like to purchase a copy of your new Biochar Debate book and visited the Chelsea Green bookstore online but it seems only to cater for US market. May I meet with you and buy a copy from you as I do live in Bradley Stoke and goes to the chinese church in Bristol?
I am consulting for UNDP in Ghana and Nigeria and is keen to develop some biochar project in Africa. Would be great if you could meet for coffee to exchange ideas?
Shalom,
Jason Yapp
Cell: 07768-443317
skype: yappjason
Hi James,
I have just read an greatly appreciated “The Biochar Debate”, thank you. In Chapter 7 you say that the bank account money in the world has about three times the value of real assets, (albeit hard to estimate), and that there is twenty times the trade in financial assets, (debt), as there is in goods and services. Can you provide references for these please?
Cheers
Graham
Graham Smith. I would like to discuss this by telephone. Perhaps you could phone me: 0117 942 5834
James
Just read Big Earth Book from library a few days ago. Thought it was very good, though I felt a bit despairing through the early chapters, the later pages were a bit more hopeful. Maybe I get pessimistic too easy but if it’s as bad as you say, I’m not at all confident that we’ll deal with the crisis quicky enough, certainly not as well as the ozone.
One of the biggest probs as I see it is not only the big corporations but the “good guys” lack of cooperation. There’s so many people with expertise, good intentions/ideas wanting to turn it around but they rarely seem to join forces and seem to try to do it on their own.
James, could you possibly call me 07787 153410