We also visited the Palladio exhibition at the RA today. It was fascinating but particularly seeing many of his original drawings - hence today’s picture. Interesting that most of these are owned by the RIBA: I assume we acquired them legitimately, not like the Chinese art that’s in the news today. It also struck me that Palladio had been such an enormout influence on architecture - particularly municipal and state buildings for so many years. We walked out of the RA building into the courtyard - completely Palladian - and into Piccadilly where a new office building at number 198-202, still unoccupied, although modern, has many of the features developed by Palladio. You can see this here.
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Sounds like you had a lovely day David....
A week has passed and today I'm challenged to 'take action and act justly'
As the poorest are hit hardest by climate change despite having contributed the least to the problem.I've prayed for poor communities who are impacted the most by climate change.
The 'Act justly' task was to write to Ed Miliband, the head of the government department responsible for energy and climate change, to call for a just global deal on climate change.
A template letter was provided by Tearfund and was really easy to fill in - follow link on the Carbon Fast action list.
The charity I work for have used this procedure a lot for campaigning for safer roads and it really does work - the MP gets heartily sick of a full inbox and mailbag and has been known to call and say "Great idea, can you now stop - I'm here and I'm listening" With the big summit in Copenhagen at the end of the year, hopefully Mr Miliband will go armed knowing how we all feel....?
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