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:...
by Doreen Hosking | 18, Mar, 2024 | Blog
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...
by Doreen Hosking | 5, Mar, 2024 | Blog
War has been with us for a very long time. There is a debate among anthropologists as to whether making war is an innate human characteristic. This article suggests that it is not, but “it is a social and cultural development that emerged at different times around the...
by Doreen Hosking | 2, Feb, 2024 | Blog
Even after 65 years, my grandmother’s words ring loudly in my ears. My grandparents were schoolteachers, so they weren’t poor. But they were thrifty. My grandmother prided herself on her lack of food waste. I am sure living through two wars contributed to that desire...
