I put a request out on Twitter and Facebook asking what your main challenges are at this time of year. Responses came back showing a definite theme: “taking time off”, “I find it hard to stop working”, “striking the right balance between rest, work and play”, “slowing down”. There may be a clear need for [...]
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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. [...] I used to believe I wasn’t competitive. Growing up, my three siblings would race to play Monopoly; I would groan and drag myself over to join them. I dropped out of swimming lessons as a child because I hated how geared they were towards racing, and I dreaded Sports Day. So I was overjoyed to [...] I’ve just watched the most amazing BBC documentary, A Farm For The Future. In the documentary, Rebecca Hosking takes a thorough and honest look at our food chain and how the end of cheap, abundant oil will affect what we eat. Her explorations take her to peak oil experts, a Soil Association conference, and permaculture-designed [...] |
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