CURRENT MISSION

trying to stay upbeat about the current state of the world

ABOUT ME

Keen mountain biker, conservationist, environmentalist and aspiring cartoonist

Cartoons here

https://www.facebook.com/CartoonRalph.Underhill

I currently work for the the Public Interest Research Centre http://www.pirc.info/. I work on understanding what motivates people to stand up for people and the environment. check out this http://valuesandframes.org/handbook/

Me and my lovely wife Fiona went on a big wildlife trip across north and central america www.ralphandfi.blogspot.com

PHILOSOPHY

Not anthropocentrism...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We are happy to give up our couch as we used a fee couch's on our trips

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

already met some great people and hope to meet many more

Interests

Board games, cycling, ultimate frisbee, stand up comedy, cinema, satirical cartoons

• wildlife
• environment
• cartoons
• movies
• board games
• traveling
• cycling
• surfing
• animation

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
Big Lebowski is the greatest Movie ever
Also love - Up (but pretty much all pixar except cars!), in the loop, paths of glory, there will be blood, doctor strangelove, hidden,

music: Arcade Fire, the XX, Nike Drake, Vampire weekend, nick Jones

Books: Ishamel by Daniel Quinn (read it now if you haven't), Catch 22, slaughterhouse 5, extremely loud and incredibly close, the road, we need to talk about kevin, cloud atlas, darkmans

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

met a grizzly bear in the wild

What I Can Share with Hosts

good board games, wildlife stuff, an opportunity to go mountain biking

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Costa Rica, Estonia, France, Honduras, Hungary, Kenya, Nicaragua, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Scotland, Wales

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