In September Alastair addressed 30 industrialists on WWF's One Planet Leaders programme in England, and subsequently in Baveno, Italy, 200 leaders of the cement industry - a sector that is responsible for at least 5% of world CO2 emissions. In Wales as part of the launch events for Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition, he spoke on climate change and spirituality to an invited audience of activists at Howie's Do, and in London he spoke at the Mayor's Thames Festival and the Irish Cultural Centre. An edited video of the Howie's event is online at http://www.thedolectures.com/speakers/alastair-mcintosh. The Scotsman's review of Hell and High Water is at http://living.scotsman.com/outdoors/Book-review--Hell-and.4395430.jp

In October he will be delivering the keynote address at the conference of Scottish councils of voluntary service in Cumbernauld on the theme, Reflections on 30 years' Voluntary Sector Experience, and participating in a think tank event on rural implications of climate change hosted by the Carnegie Foundation. In Derry he will be giving a public lecture, and in Co. Mayo, Ireland, he will be addressing the Hedge School of the community that is currently experiencing jail and hunger strikes in their effort to block a forced development by Shell on their land. At the end of October he will deliver, for the 11th time, his address on nonviolence to 400 senior officers on the Advanced Command & Staff Course at Britain's foremost military staff college.

Alastair has also been nominated in the Environment category for the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland awards - http://uk.glenfiddich.com/every-year-counts/glenfiddich-spirit-of-scotland-awards/environment.html