Today we've added two new sections to our website.  The first contains our current suggestions about how best to help get relief to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.  According to Haitian President René Préval the most urgent need is shelter for 800,000 homeless people before the rainy season starts in about a month's time, so we focus on that problem to start with.

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Update 11:35 GMT on January 20th 2010

Haiti just endured another aftershock. This one was apparently 5.9 on the moment magnitude scale.

Synchronicity struck at the opening of the Art, Ecology and the Economy exhibition at CCANW. Several musicians from South West England have now donated a track to our forthcoming "Water Connects Us" album in aid of Haiti:

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We didn't intend that this would be our headline for today, but shit happens.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn died last week. So it goes.

War has broken out on the border between East and West…. again.

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