We were sorry to hear that Revd. (Donald) Keith Innes died on 15th December 2020 at East Surrey Hospital, aged 87, after a long illness. Here we will briefly cover his life story before concentrating on his environmental work. Keith was born in Sussex. He took a degree at St. …
It is a great privilege to become the chair of JRI, an organisation that I have been aware of for many years and with whom I have been serving as a board member for a couple of years now. Over the twenty years of JRI’s work, there have been many …
If it were not for the coronavirus lockdown we would have held an entire day at Ripon College Cuddesdon, near Oxford, on Saturday 18th April. When it was obvious that the day would have to be cancelled we thought that was all there was to it. But then CRES tutor, …
Sir John Houghton, the President of JRI, died on 15th April 2020, and it was later confirmed that this was due to complications from infection with Covid-19. Sir John’s achievements were many, and he touched the lives of a large number of people. Here I will briefly outline Sir John’s …
JRI is pleased to announce the publication of Briefing Paper No. 41, “Communicating the Environment”. In this paper retired management consultant Rob Hitchcock and Methodist Presbyter Philip Wagstaff look at the ‘how’ of effective campaigning for a fairer world. They consider the challenges and restraints to communication, and then the …
March 2020 has been the strangest and most unnerving month of my life. It began in Guernsey as I had been invited by A Rocha UK to speak at various churches on the island on the weekend when February turned to March. Everyone was aware of coronavirus then and hand …
