September 2018

The first Bigfoot FEstival happened in Marion North Carolina on the 8th of September with over 6000 attending. Next year will be a big one with the SDG Challenge. This will be a Rat Race/Cannonball run from the OuterBanks where the Wright Brothers flew for the first time to Marion with a treasure hunt on the way. At this point, it will be a plane that Don is building with Felix as his partner and Mike and Dave in the Blue Zombie Response Jeep. It will be a sponsored event to raise money for a local charity that is engaged in ASG 5 on Gender and in particular, SDG target 5.2 eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation. More details to come next year.

The second workshop of the Friends of Governance for Sustainable Development happened in partnership with UNDESA. It was focused on Advancing the 2030 Agenda: Lessons learnt from the first cycle of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF)– reform or revolution?  Power points can be downloaded here and papers will go up by the end of November.