by Doreen Hosking | 20, Sep, 2024 | Blog
“What lies ahead? Reimagining the world! Only that.” – Arundhati Roy – Dear Grandma It is hard to believe, but today is my fortieth birthday. It is 2050 – halfway through the century. I remember you always told me that we would know in 2050 if we...
by Doreen Hosking | 24, Aug, 2024 | Blog
I have been thinking a lot recently about how I write my blog and how I can find a better balance. I do want to discuss the problems we face in this increasingly chaotic world. However I also want to encourage people to get active. Too much reality and it reduces...
by Doreen Hosking | 16, Jun, 2024 | Blog
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...
by Doreen Hosking | 15, May, 2024 | Blog
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,...
by Doreen Hosking | 24, Apr, 2024 | Blog
“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...
by Doreen Hosking | 1, Apr, 2024 | Blog
“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:...