Recovery And Reconnection Through Switching Off, Time With Nature

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Day 59 of 365 Days Of Low Carbon Living: recovery and reconnecting with people and the natural world by switching off.

Our dominant western culture extols continuous growth and push us to be on the go all the time and living individual lives.

It’s very tempting to go along with it, especially given the social pressures to ‘fit in’ and Continue reading

Could Slowing Down Be What We Need?

RestingDay 46 of 365 Days Of Low Carbon Living.

Sometimes things don’t quite turn out the way you planned.

It’s been quite a while since my last post, and there were a few gaps before that – definitely not what I set out to do with 365 Days Of Low Carbon Living.

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Could Doing Less = Doing More?

Young woman sitting cross-legged & meditating on grass on headland overlooking Sydney & Pacific Ocean

Image: Niko dimo , Flickr CC-BY-2.0

When we think about becoming more sustainable, we often focus on what we should do.

How often do we think that being more sustainable means that we should:

  • Do things differently at home, at work and at leisure?
  • Get our family and friends to change how they do things Continue reading

Short car trips = extra fuel

Like most teens, mine would like me to be their personal taxi service.  Their ideal would be for me (or them) to drive them anywhere at the drop of the hat.  Despite what I’ve taught them over the years, they now frequently want to drive for short distances.

But our car is not like a taxi.  A taxi runs nearly 24 hours a day…so its engine is running hot and therefore fairly efficiently. Continue reading

STOP PRESS: Upgrade Your Brain…Right Now!

Did you know you have about 60,000 thoughts a day?

What you’ve got to wonder is — how many are positive, grateful, wise… and take you ‘one step forward’ toward your goals?

Do you want to sustain – or, better still, improve – the functioning of your brain? Continue reading