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John Powell is currently on holiday. He still finds time however to pen a blog about what he is up to - always with an eye on 'the commons'.

The colours of the trees are vibrant in the strong sunlight, set off against a deep blue sky on a clear October day.  Walden Pond is where Henry David Thoreau built a cabin in the woods ‘by his own hand’…

The United Nations has designated the first Monday in October as 'World Habitat Day'. First celebrated in 1986, John Powell considers the day and how it relates to a project that the CCRI has been involved with - that of 'Foresters Forest' in the nearby Forest of Dean.

Last week in the CCRI we were joined by our latest placement student for 2019-2020. Find out more about Bethany Leake who has joined the team from the University of Leeds.

CCRI's Project Support Officer Isabel Fielden took a month's sabbatical from CCRI to work with endangered species in West Java, Indonesia.

Back in July, John Powell attended the XVII IASC Biennial Global Commons Conference in Lima, Peru. This Blog post is a reflection on how the opening ceremony was something of an analogy to many of the global commons problems.

CCRI's Dilshaad Bundhoo, John Powell and Chris Short, with assistance from Kate Ashbrook (Open Spaces Society) delivered an activity session at the recent XVII IASC Biennial Conference in Lima. It concerned multi-stakeholder dialogue and here Dilshaad and John reflect on the session

One of the things that many British people know about Peru, is that it is where Paddington Bear comes from. John Powell in this short blog comes to a startling conclusion about Paddington's attire of a duffle coat and floppy hat.

Last week, John Powell was in Peru attending the XVII Biennial IASC Conference, entitled ‘In Defense of the Commons: Challenges, Innovation, and Action’. As ever, John has been blogging and here he details one of the field trips he went on to the Lomas hills on the outskirts of Lima.