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Today, I‘m treating you to a fascinating and inspiring guest article from Stella in La Palma, Canary Islands. She’s also offering an opportunity to experience sustainable living in this beautiful part of the world. Stella writes: I love getting Sally’s newsletter not just because there’s always something fresh and useful in it for me [...]
In our move to a more sustainable way of living and of doing business, we know that we need to change how we act and also how we think. Our actions, after all, stem from our thoughts and, unless we change our approach to how we think, we will not manage to downshift or to [...]
A ritual can be defined as a solemn ceremony of observance. It is a term often associated with religion. What I’m suggesting here, however, is that rituals can be a way to remind us to nourish ourselves every day, both on a practical physical level and whilst engaging our hearts in our work. People 1. [...]
What’s the best way to start your day and what does it matter anyway? “There is an Indian Belief that everyone is in a house of four rooms: A physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into [...]
A Yurt “Hanging out” is a term my teenage sons use ever more frequently. I used to think it was an excuse for spending time with friends without bothering to come up with anything in particular that they might do together. What a waste of time! …Except that they seemed to derive so much enjoyment [...]
The whole idea of running a business in a conscious way, by that I mean ethically, holistically and sustainably, can seem to many people like a complete contradiction in terms. Back in the 1980s, I was an employee in a large multinational organisation and I completed a Diploma in Marketing with the Chartered Institute [...]
One of the terms that is often used when considering how we cope collectively with the triple challenges of peak oil, climate change and economic meltdown is “resilience”. It seems we would benefit from cultivating this collectively at the levels of local community, at a national level and globally. Whenever we attempt to establish [...]
Despite not having a television, somehow the gloom and doom of the media hype on our “dire economic situation” has still filtered through to this downshifter’s awareness. An alien from outer space visiting our planet for the first time might despair at our lack of understanding of the very basics of living within our planetary [...]
This site seeks to explore the heart and soul of downshifting to a more sustainable, ethical and holistic way of living and working, in keeping with the needs of the planet, humanity as a whole and ourselves as individuals. (read more)
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