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This [Kickstart Your Venture] was a well organized and positive workshop – I felt like we all came away so much better informed and enthusiastic. I now have confidence in my ability to start a business and will start a plan for my business idea. I am looking forward to being more in control of my destiny. — M. A. Sawford

Give It A Rest

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 you [...]

The Thing About Wake-Up Calls

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 [...]

Planes, Trains And Hard Decisions

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 can’t. [...]

Spirit of Competition

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 [...]

Food For Thought

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 small-holdings.
I [...]