When I was growing up, my parents frowned quite heavily on too much TV. We didn't even own a colour TV until sometime in the 80s, but I didn't really notice as I allowed my imagination to "see colours" where there weren't any. Although this did make for interesting conversations in the school yard when I was sure that the spaceship in whatever child's cartoon series was popular at the time was red, when really it was blue...
Other than my 30 mins of TV I
was allowed to watch upon returning from school, my parents did encourage me to watch educational programs which I can honestly say did make a positive impact and was almost as exciting to a ten year old boy as epic space battles. One of the shows we would watch religiously was the CBC's "The Nature of Things", a series exploring science and later the environment, which was presented by David Suzuki, a man whom I admire very much and certainly helped shape my life. I think it was probably his unknowing influence together with that of my sister that originally shaped my desire to be a biologist those so many years ago.
Or so the title of the Guardian article goes. Everyone like's a feel good story don't they? And this is no different - the story of a man living in the rubbish room of a block of flats, who existed on the margins of society where he kept to himself. There he would carefully create collages of a past life before being discovered and swiftly catapulted into stardom and the heights of the art world.
While I think it would be ambitious to expect significant change to come out of a single half day meeting, what we did establish was a very good first step on the road to improving BioDiversity within the Luxury sector. Ideas were exchanged which we will begin to collate over the next few days with the goal of developing specific contributions towards theCop-10 of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya this October and the revision of the Global BioDiversity Targets for 2020.
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