Pausing To Reflect – Let’s Do It Now

Woman thinking

Image credit: Robert Couse-Baker, Flickr CC-BY 2.0

How often do we take the time to reflect on what we are doing, to look at our goals and how we go about our daily lives?

A lot of us (particularly in Western cultures) might do this once a year. We take part in the annual ritual at the end of the year, setting New Year’s Resolutions. Even then, we probably don’t go very deep, preferring instead to focus on broad Continue reading

Honesty + Responsibility = Great Opportunity To Choose Future

Tweet by Tanyia Maxted: 7th recording above historic 406ppm #airpollution manmade #climatechange accelerating & emissions rising #auspol, with graph showing CO2 concentration at Mauna Loa Observatory from May 2014 to 4 April 2016

Are we really being honest about what is happening and taking responsibility for choosing our own future?

Many people will find the graph and brief commentary in this tweet sad and scary, especially if they understand the story they tell and accept their implications:

Easter Action On Climate Change

Man standing with eyes closed & hands held in prayer at dawn

Image: Vinoth Chandar | Flickr CC BY 2.0

Around the world, people are having an extra long weekend for Easter.  Western Christians are going to church on Good Friday.  More of them will do so on Easter Sunday.  And in a few weeks Orthodox Christians will do the same.

On Good Friday, some church congregations will use a litany, a series of prayers asking for specific Continue reading

A Carbon Fast For Lent?

Planet Earth with a fever, held in hands

What do you do in the lead-up to Easter? Anything different to the rest of the year? (With Easter early this year, perhaps you’re still getting into the swing of the working (calendar) year! ;-))

It happens that the lead-up to Easter is a great time for some conscious reassessments with a view to living and working more sustainably.

We could, of course do that any time. Continue reading

A New Year’s Resolution For Us All

Source: Flickr vanhookc CC BY-SA

Source: Flickr vanhookc CC BY-SA

The new year is traditionally a time for new beginnings.

Many of us will have resolved to make changes to how we go about our personal lives. Some of these can reduce our environmental impact – if done the right way. For example: