This is somewhat heartwarming. A young brown bear wandered into Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania (where my mother's family is from). The government issued a permit for it to be shot. But the Lithuanian community of hunters, knowing there are only a few (less than a dozen) brown bears in the country refused to do it. Eventually, she just wandered away.

Gerai iškeptas, Lithuanian hunters.

https://apnews.com/article/lithuania-bear-vilnius-protected-species-2e6fd88748f386cd250c2f50a4587ad9

If you’re interested in how powerful forces of marketing & manipulation make the positive change we badly need MUCH harder, read @grantennis’ great book “Dark PR.”

Nice to spend a Paris day (he lives here) walking in Grant’s Canal neighbourhood & talking about how change REALLY happens.

PARIS TRANSFORMED: Like cutting-edge new neighbourhoods that are dense, mixed-use (an urban IKEA, grocery store, shops, services, schools, jobs etc), multimodal, socially & economically diverse (50% social housing, 20% middle income rental apartments, 30% market ownership apartments), green/susfainable, & really livable?

There’s no better person to tour & discuss the many new REMARKABLE urban transformations around Metro stations in PARIS than the brilliant Carlos Moreno!

Thank you my friend.

Half the world’s population lives in countries spending more on debt interest than on health. 2.1 billion live in countries spending more on debt than education. This is the cost of a broken financial system.

30 top economists—brought together by the Catholic Church—have laid out what must change to establish a fairer system. Their report is out today.

Let’s hope leaders act at #FfD4