by Doreen Hosking | 22, Jul, 2025 | Blog
“The future belongs to those that believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt The challenges we are facing in our world right now seem overwhelming. In fact there are days when many of us want to go back to bed and pull the duvet over our head. But for...
by Doreen Hosking | 9, Jul, 2025 | Blog
Our positive values seem to be disappearing into a black hole. When I picture humanity as we are now, I feel somehow that our kindness, compassion and empathy have disappeared into a black hole. Our caring for our neighbours, the less fortunate and those “not like us”...
by Doreen Hosking | 30, Jun, 2025 | Blog
The environmental cost of fighting wars is enormous. In addition the impact of militarisation starts long before the wars themselves do. CEOBS shows that building and sustaining military forces consumes vast quantities of resources, for example in training. Also...
by Doreen Hosking | 19, Jun, 2025 | Blog
89% of the global population want stronger action on Climate Change. I recently wrote a blog discussing an article in the Guardian newspaper. It was about a survey that showed 89% of the global population want stronger action on Climate Change. It seems, strangely,...
by Doreen Hosking | 9, Jun, 2025 | Blog
It’s Time to Wake Up! It is clear to me that our way of life is not working. It seems obvious, given the evidence. And yet we are not in the streets demanding change. Why not? The signs of collapse are everywhere: Recent surveys have shown that most people in the...