Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

New book just out in paperback and kindle :  Power to the People: Confessions of a Young Liberal Activist 1975-1987   by Felix Dodds This book was released in a parallel universe before being released in this one. To help the reader I would like to share comments from leading figures in that parallel universe. “I told everyone Felix was going to be trouble and see he was! If he and the Young Liberals hadn’t stopped me at the Eastbourne Defence debate I’d have been Prime Minister!!! Well maybe David (Owen) would have been Prime Minister but I’d have shone his shoes EVERY day. I miss David (Owen) very much . ” David Steel (former leader of the Liberal Party 1976-1988) “We should have given Felix that job at Social Democrat Party Headquarters instead of Danny ” Dr. Death (otherwise known as David Owen leader of the Social Democrat Party 1983-1987) “It will be my birthday on Tuesday. Last year, I reached the painful conclusion that there wasn't enough time lef...

Im enjoying a little downtime after the crazy 2015,2014,2013,2012 processes and wanted to share some books out by some of my friends which you may enjoy for summer reading. I reviewed Nixon's Comrades: A Kremlin Note Taker Remembers  earlier in the year a great book by Andrey Vavilov who was the Russian governments Deputy Ambassador to UNEP and Habitat as well as an 'enb'er. In the book Andrey looks back on his unique experience at the side of Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon, Cold War rivals who became architects of détente. He offers a private tour of super power summit conferences of the 1970s, where he took notes and interpreted for Soviet leaders in their secret discussions with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, and later with Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. “Nixon’s Comrades” draws mainly on the author’s notes, recollections and private sources. It is a personal view of the gravitational attraction of Nixon’s Imperial Presidency and Brezhnev’s One-Party State. ...