It’s Thursday night in a town hall in Brixton, South London. Hundreds of people mill around, steel drums play, bottles of fizzy ginger are generously given away. In this time of giant banks and an insistently globalised economy, I am here to celebrate the launch of the Brixton Pound: England’s fourth local currency. While most of [...]
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Wake-up calls are powerful…. and not always very welcome. When we’re comfortably dreaming away, we’re rarely happy about an alarm – whether that alarm is that our health is in crisis, that climate change is a reality, or that our skills are needed elsewhere. The BBC2 documentary Future Of Food has been the most recent [...] We went to Austria for our summer holiday and for environmental reasons, we travelled there by train. It cost us around £800 door to door and involved two solid days on the train – each way. I generally find train travel very pleasant and I was so looking forward to saying it was worth it. [...] Ever feel like there’s a part of you which derails you at every crossroad, despite your best efforts and intentions? Too often, we find ourselves trapped in patterns which are painful and frustrating. I found myself caught up in one last week and grabbed the opportunity, using my experience as a laboratory in order to [...] Everyone has a weak spot. Mine? Things breaking. When a piece of equipment fails or some software doesn’t work properly, a button of mine gets pressed. Some old pattern of not feeling safe in the world gets triggered and I utterly freak out. I have tears, I punch pillows, I tell the world how much [...] |
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