I just presented a sustainable transport video. Made by Dair Ltd this video focussed on persuading the people who work at Heathrow airport to start thinking about alternatives to the car…hope it works.

Jungle Trip – Piers Gibbon Piers Gibbon made another intrepid trip, this time journeying into Channel4 chat. Chat Ed : Evening Piers 🙂 Tom and Creeanne : woohoo MV3 : evening piers! Piers Gibbon : Hello everyone! Thank you all for watching and logging on, how can I help you? Chat Ed : Right, first question. *Everyone* wants to know this: Ceri : How did you manage to swallow that phlegm and not vomit? Piers Gibbon : First thing is, is that it wasn’t just phlegm, it was actually a millipede which Don Demetrio keeps in his chest as a power object. Don’t ask me how that works! So what I was swallowing was a rolled up millipede, but yes it was a bit slippery. (Chat Ed pales) Joe : after 30 more days of drinking ayahuasca with the most powerful shaman, did you conclude that you had lost the plot or found it? and why? Kathy : I also want to know if, on reflection you lost the plot or found the thread? Piers Gibbon : I’ve been back in the UK for three months now and frankly I’m still not quite sure. Sorry not to be more definite, but to be honest I’m still dealing with it. What I can say for sure is that it did something. I know that doesn’t fit in with current views on science, millipedes, saliva and all that, but hey, that’s the truth – it did something. Sy : Did you ever worry about losing your sanity in the Jungle? Piers Gibbon : I am still worrying about that. Roland Gardner : Piers , you stayed on longer than you were going to. Did you find what you were after? Brion Davies : Can you elaborate on your time with Don Dimitrio …

Fawning on flora by Pete Clark, Evening Standard 19 December 2002 A couple of days ago, I was writing in this column about the disturbing effects that vast quantities of cannabis can have on the mental health of a human being. Having watched Unthinkable: Jungle Trip (Sci-Fi channel), I have come to the conclusion that there are even worse things that could catch on in the modern world. Would you believe that in the forests that surround the Peruvian stretch of the Amazon river there are plants that talk to humans? I know that Prince Charles and one or two of his close friends talk to plants, but surely no one could believe that they actually talk back? Piers Gibbon did. In fact, he was convinced of it. To his great credit, Piers cut rather a sympathetic figure as he set out on the first part of his odyssey to Kew Gardens. This was, it could not be denied, the easy part of the journey, but Piers was intent in presenting his credentials in the most austere light. He was no cheap seeker of cheap thrills. He admitted to many experiments with hallucinogenic flora, but insisted that this was all in the cause of solving a conundrum which dominated his waking hours: he knew beyond doubt that plants spoke, it was just that he did not understand their particular dialect. And just to show that he had one foot in the real world, Piers admitted that he also wanted his name to be given to the rare plant that he was determined to bring back to Kew from those Peruvian forests. You’d have thought that a chap called Gibbon might have been a fauna man, but there you go. The rite stuff: But Piers Gibbon could have achieved the same …