Some weeks it’s 
hard to keep up with how quickly the world is changing.
Yes, part of that is the climate crisis: we live in a world that’s been profoundly and dangerously altered.
But the politics of climate change are changing too, and some weeks you can feel a tangible shift in what is possible and what is not.
This is one of those weeks, and Global Divestment Day is a chance to be part of that shift. Together, people all over the world are changing the game and Continue reading
Image by Tyler at www.clker.com/clipart-350479
Last week I spoke about our addiction to fossil fuels. I put the question: can we put in the effort needed to break our addiction to fossil fuels before it’s too late?
Now, before we can break an addiction we need to recognise the problem.
In the case of climate change, that’s easy: there’s plenty of evidence that how we have been doing things in recent decades and centuries is cooking the planet… Continue reading
Our society – and that means almost everyone of us 😉 – has a grave addiction.
Maybe I shouldn’t call it an addiction. Continue reading
By Compo [CC-BY-SA-3.0] via Wikimedia Commons
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
Sometimes it seems that calls to live 
more sustainably seem to be only about self-sacrifice. Giving things up. Doing without. For the greater good, of course.
That’s all fine and dandy if you like being a martyr for the cause.
But not all of us want to be martyrs. (At least not all Continue reading