Nature Needs our Help

Nature Needs our Help

What Are We Doing to Help it Recover? This poem by American poet John Malinka reminded me just how important Nature and its wildness is to me. And not just to me, as we all need it in our fight to make our lifestyles more sustainable. Of course we also need untamed...
A Change in the Air?

A Change in the Air?

Recent climate news has been looking very gloomy. So I thought it might be more uplifting to look at the positive changes that are happening all around us. For me it is important, (without forgetting where we are) to be clear that if we wish to create a better future,...
Can We Make a Difference to our Future?

Can We Make a Difference to our Future?

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what difference you want to make.” (Jane Goodall) If we act now we can change the future. We are in a time of transition Our old world is gone and ahead of us lies a future of infinite possibilities, or a decline...
Less is More

Less is More

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” (Socrates, 450 BC) As we work to find ways of avoiding a catastrophic increase in Climate Change we are going to have to come to terms with having less:...
We Need to Wake Up!

We Need to Wake Up!

Do We Really Want to Lose This? Spring snowpack is critical for delivering a steady supply of drinking and irrigation water to billions of people, with bigger and earlier melts causing problems.: Or This? African lions could be completely extinct by 2050. Are we...