by Doreen Hosking | 1, Nov, 2023 | Blog
Why Empathy? Empathy is the ability to see the world through another person’s eyes and to feel what they are feeling. It is the capacity to see a situation from another perspective. We might, for example, judge somebody harshly if they steal food, but it softens our...
by Doreen Hosking | 2, Oct, 2023 | Blog
Where are we heading? There is no plan. We must choose our future – Consider what we want – Decide what is most important. And Act. Nobody will do it for us. As a recent Tweet put it: “The cavalry is not coming over the hill.” So we must choose how we want our lives...
by Doreen Hosking | 14, Sep, 2023 | Blog
Our food system creates about a third of all greenhouse gas emissions. As we all eat and make food choices this is an area where each of us can make a difference to our own health and that of our families. We can also help to make the whole system more...
by Doreen Hosking | 23, Aug, 2023 | Blog
A Short Introduction to the Global Food System What is it? The Global Food System includes the production, processing, transport, and consumption of the food required to feed our growing population. We are now at 8 billion people with a forecast of over 10 billion by...
by Doreen Hosking | 31, Jul, 2023 | Blog
Humanity is heading towards a chaotic future fuelled by our lifestyles of acquisition and waste. If our young people are to inherit a planet they can live on we must change course now. However as Carl Jung has said “We cannot change anything unless we accept it.” In...
by Doreen Hosking | 5, Jul, 2023 | Blog
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” (Native American Proverb) I, for one, would like to leave a liveable world for my children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and all those others to come. I want to leave a world where...
