Category Archives: environment

Envisioning the future during COVID19 lockdown.

In this essay I am going to imagine what our world would be like, if the systems we create, and our actions were based on the understandings of Quantum physics, evolutionary biology and epigenetics, indigenous wisdom, and interspecies communication, (the … Continue reading

Posted in body and mind, consciousness, environment, food, health, nature, Quantum Botanicals | Tagged | Leave a comment

Alone in Nature

This is the second post in the Quantum Botanicals series. This was the assignment: Find a natural place, away from the sounds, smells and signs of human habitation and sit on the earth for one or more hours, without bringing … Continue reading

Posted in environment, nature, Quantum Botanicals | Tagged | Leave a comment

You are powerful

I read in a newspaper recently that the UK government is committing to spend another 160 billion pounds on military hardware, machinery for wars and death. This provoked me to write about a few things regarding our relationship to our … Continue reading

Posted in business, community, consciousness, environment, health, money | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Village

A few days ago I spent the whole day in what will become my local village. Since 2006 there has been a  project ongoing here, called Centro de Convergência (Convergence Centre), initiated by GAIA a portuguese environmental NGO. They describe … Continue reading

Posted in community, environment, food, health | Tagged , , , , | 3 Comments

Land

At last I have taken the big leap and made an offer to buy some land. 34 hectares in the hills of rural south-west Portugal. There is an abandoned orchard and vegetable garden in the main valley, lots of cork … Continue reading

Posted in announcements, body and mind, community, environment | Tagged , , , , , | 3 Comments

Onward into 2012, my plans for community

After a long break I am excited to be back here on my blog and posting again…. Over the past 6 months I have been looking at moving to Portugal, and have spent a couple of months there. I wish … Continue reading

Posted in announcements, body and mind, community, consciousness, environment, food | Tagged , , | 3 Comments

A search engine that saves rainforest

I’ve been using Ecosia for a little while and it works well. They give 80% of advertising profit to save Amazon rainforest. This sounds like a good thing in itself, but what is even more interesting is how it might … Continue reading

Posted in environment, technology and design | Leave a comment

Ecosystem Economics

Whilst browsing through a newspaper the other day, looking for something interesting amidst the political drama and social gloom, I was excited to discover a double page spread on the TEEB report. TEEB stands for The Economics of Ecosystems and … Continue reading

Posted in business, environment, money | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

A ramble about the bramble

My blog has fallen into a long sleep over the summer. There are a few posts cooking that I have started, but the energy to finish them has not yet arrived. So I am changing my strategy and am going … Continue reading

Posted in environment, food | Tagged | Leave a comment

Amazonian Oil Exploitation – update

This seems to be good news….. I wrote about this initiative in my earlier post on this subject, and it seemed back then that it had ground to a halt. So I am happy to see that it is moving … Continue reading

Posted in environment | Leave a comment