Cav's Place

It’s been ten years since I last wrote about women’s football, but I tend to follow the major national team competitions when they’re televised here, so I’m not comparing with what I saw back then, or with the differences in the level of professionalism that I was pointing out, when I say that I was […]

This year’s Earth Overshoot Day fell on July 24, unsurprisingly the earliest date ever, but the far more relevant development when it comes to environmental matters took place the previous day, when the International Court of Justice (ICJ) stated that countries must prevent harm to the climate system. While unanimous, the ruling is only a […]

The posts about the half marathon and the Dream Trek remain untouched, but I posted them in that form and left them to be completed at an unspecified later time to allow myself to move on and write about the following runs, so I’ll do just that, starting with June 29, when the plan was […]

It starts well, pointing out the problems with the pursuit of happiness in itself and with this cult of positivity in particular, including the fact that it’s an industry but mainly that it doesn’t, and can’t, work, and in fact usually has the opposite effect. After all, happiness is the difference between reality and expectations, […]

I happened to stumble upon the press release about a proposed Nature Relationship Index just before midnight, so I initially ended up with the most basic placeholder for a post, only including the link. But, at first glance, the idea has some merit, depending on how it’s implemented, the index is intended to evolve over […]