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Richard Plumpton | ii |
- Sep 7, 2019
- 2 min
Is this Australia's 'Canary in the Coal Mine' Moment?
[Image: Australia's Increasing Bushfire Risk | © Bloomberg & BOM] As we approach what all the experts are saying is going to be a...


Richard Plumpton | ii |
- Jul 16, 2019
- 2 min
Teaching Opportunity from Day One.
[Image: A School in Timor Leste | © United Nations] If there's one thing that's been endlessly reinforced during my recent sustainable...


Richard Plumpton | ii |
- Jun 6, 2019
- 2 min
The Dignity of Those with the Least.
[Image: Children in Vanuatu | © CARE Australia] Since early 2017 I've been involved in looking for new models that will help facilitate...


Richard Plumpton | ii |
- Apr 12, 2019
- 2 min
A Little Bit of Plastic in All of Us...
[Image: Plastic Ocean Waste | © The Independent Newspaper] In the last 12 months the plastic ocean waste issue has (finally) cut through...


Richard Plumpton | ii |
- Dec 14, 2018
- 2 min
The Power in 'Equal'.
[Image: A Female Smallholder Farmer in Papua New Guinea | © CARE Australia/Tom Greenwood.] The last part of 2018 saw me working with some...


Richard Plumpton | ii |
- Sep 20, 2018
- 3 min
Seeing the Future through a Hotel Window.
[Image: 'Typhoon Maria Risk Assessment July 2018' | © AccuWeather] Much of 2018 has seen me criss–crossing the Asia–Pacific working on a...


Richard Plumpton | ii |
- May 27, 2018
- 2 min
The Country that Is and Isn't.
[Image: 'Kaohsiung City, Taiwan' | © Taiwan Tourism] As part of a research project exploring future sustainability trends in the...


Richard Plumpton | ii |
- Jan 20, 2018
- 2 min
Looking Across the Ditch with Envy.
[Image: 'Auckland Skyline, New Zealand' | © 100% Pure New Zealand] It's a mostly healthy rivalry, but sometimes the gap just gets too...


Richard Plumpton | ii |
- Oct 14, 2017
- 2 min
Helping People Help Themselves.
[Image: 'Papua New Guinea Fairtrade Coffee Farmer' | © Fairtrade ANZ] I've seen on many occasions now how much more likely sustained...


Richard Plumpton | ii |
- May 31, 2017
- 2 min
From the macro to the micro (and everything in-between!)
[Image: Jari Island, the Solomon Islands | © James Morgan] The middle of June marks the end of the first phase of a project that I first...