Can We Break The Fossil Fuel Addiction?

You are looking at the person responsible croppedOur society – and that means almost everyone of us 😉 – has a grave addiction.

Maybe I shouldn’t call it an addiction. Continue reading

6 New Year’s Resolutions for Your Body and Your Planet

New Year resolution book & pen Flickr vanhookc CC BY-SAAnother year over, and a new one just begun. Happy New Year and may it be a wonderful one!

As 2015 begins, but before it starts to speed away, many of us will be taking a moment to look back. A brief chance to take stock of the past and with this in mind, plan changes for the Continue reading

The Best Intentions – When Your Resolutions Don’t Turn Out

Time for change 8620349_lEach year my family spends Christmas/New Year with my parents.  The whole family gets together and all except one of us has to travel a long way.  And it’s worth it as we all come together for the celebrations. 🙂

Travel Planning Goes Walkabout

Many years ago my family started Continue reading

Advocacy Gets Results: Stepping Up To Make A Difference

I’m feeling chuffed.Young casually-dressed woman showing how pleased she is

Let me tell you why.

Last year, my local parliament began an Inquiry into Vulnerable Road Users. ‘Vulnerable road users’ are us when we aren’t inside the steel of a car, van or truck – such as when we are walking, riding a bicycle or motorbike.

The parliamentary committee called for ‘public submissions’.  That means that anyone can send their views in.

So I did. Continue reading

A Plan For The Future – Or Not

Diagram of planning cycle steps

By Compo [CC-BY-SA-3.0] via Wikimedia Commons

If you’re planning for the future, what do you do?

I’m guessing that you would think about what life might be like in that future, what sort of problems you might need to deal with, and how you might get from where you are now to where you want to be.

It wouldn’t be good planning if Continue reading