1. The Nature of Networks that Support Innovation is an interesting piece on what makes networks work by Tobias Stone https://medium.com/@newsquare/the-nature-of-networks-that-support-innovation-e496784b61c3

Don’t be put off by the complex description of ‘an ideal innovation network structure’ at the beginning: Tobias explains it all in the rest of the piece!

2. The Mandates, which started on 3^rd October, is a spookily prescient series on BBC Radio 4 which tells the sorry story of the French and British ‘mandates’ in the Middle East https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m001r1h6

3. I’ve just discovered the Fairtrade Schools video library https://vimeo.com/user36607237 Their films are intended for a UK schools audience but I think they might work in classrooms outside the UK if handled with care.

Here’s two that caught my eye. Farming for the Future: Hear from Banana Farmers in Colombia https://vimeo.com/804236062 and Unravelling the Thread: the story of cotton https://vimeo.com/265355008

4. Green Action ELT’s next event, Offsetting: is it the answer? Is at 14:00 UK time this Friday, 20^th October. Scroll down this page for more information https://green-action-elt.uk/events/ and register here https://nile-elt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdeqpqDspGtGTauZaNpoS5r4KSNhywCzM#/registration

5. And, finally, Louise Glück, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2020, died last Friday at the age of 80. Here’s a NYT gift article which celebrates her life and work, Five Louise Glück Poems to Get You Started https://tinyurl.com/3n6kex5h