We're All From Out Of Africa: can it now lead us back to sustainability?
Fun, Friendly, Factful Newsletter #214
Our article asks if Africa could again lead our way to a thriving, sustainable future - just not in the way most people think.
Our video is Cleavage Party, the provocatively-titled latest episode of Room From A View.
Our podcast is Ep 4 of Teetering - how a Hawaiian beach bum held my career in the balance, telling the best Japan story you’ve never heard.
Main Article
We’re All From Out Of Africa: Can It Now Lead Us Back To Sustainability reflects on the poorest continent’s pivotal role in plotting a path back to sustainability.
Which may not be the one you think it is.
The article features African voices, and is based on the See Through Network’s own experiences.
Please help by sharing the article widely.
*
The See Through Network newsletter has been published, for free, for the past 214 consecutive Sundays. Past articles can all be found on the See Through News website.
Please take a minute or so to respond to this brief reader survey to help us improve it in future.
Comments welcome, as always. Please email:
editor@seethroughnews.org
Video
Episode 5: Cleavage Party of Room From A View reveals the mystery cliffhanger lingering from Episode 4 'Tree Fellers'.
Three days after deluded/inspired homeowner Robert watched Pete drop a sweet chestnut in Longleat Forest, and Jim the Forester delivered it, neatly trimmed and cut into 6-foot lengths, it's time for a Cleavage Party.
Cleavage Party answers many questions arising from Episodes 1-4, including:
will any of Robert's friends, neighbours and family actually show up to do his landscape gardening without getting paid?
will traditional woodcraft skills like cleaving be too hard for total novices to learn, with only a YouTube video for instruction?
will a few rusty implements, gathered during a garage spring clean, do the job without specialist equipment? * will the stakes they cleave break or fall over?
will the resulting retaining walls look any good?
will it be fun and satisfying, or miserable and dangerous?
All will be revealed by the time Robert lights the BBQ at the end of the Cleavage Party. But the big question behind 'Room From A View: can he build it?' remains - is Robert's building project deluded or inspired?
You be the judge. Everyone's an expert, as episodes for this series are being uploaded as they're filmed.
No one know how, when, or why this story will end...
**
Please help us by sharing widely, subscribing to the See Through Together YouTube channel, and adding your frank comments and robust critiques in the Comments section.
Podcast
In Ep 4: My Favourite Japan Story, our novice Ass Prod delves deeper into the quintessentially Japanese world of sumo, as it adapts to Japan's rising global status in the early 1990s.
Once you hear it, you could be knocked over by a gunbai…
To follow Teetering - how a Hawaiian beach bum held my career in the balance:
Ep 1: Japan in 1993
Ep 2: Seduced by Sumo
Ep 3 Sumo Fan
Next: Ep 5: Can Gaijin Have Hinkaku?
***
Please take a minute to complete this reader survey and help improve this newsletter.
Thank you for this inspiring article.