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A guest article today from Joe Rolle of Rapanui, an inspirational, young, sustainable clothing business. “It’s a question that’s not asked enough – where does clothing come from, and how is it made? The clothing industry is notorious for the proliferation of child labour, disregard for the environment and the more practical challenges – such [...]
It can be a chaotic and challenging undertaking to be self employed or running a small business in these unprecedented times of climate change, peak oil and global economic crisis. What does it mean to “surf” the recession? How do we perform this complex balancing act? Surfing any waves of change and transformation involves: • [...]
Having worked from home for the last 21 years, I’ve experimented with several modes and environments for working in. Here’s a guest article from Dawn Kubicek, who is an advocate of the benefits of working from an office or studio in your garden: Working from home is something we are hearing more about at the [...]
On the “Coaching” and “About me” pages of this website, I state that I coach from a psychospiritual perspective. Every so often a prospective coaching client or fellow coach asks me to explain further. Some coaches, particularly business coaches, it would seem, are not familiar with this approach and many clients are unaware of the [...]
“By taking care of the present, we can even transform the past.” Thich Nhat Hahn What is the past? What is history? I would suggest that the past is only what we choose to remember, whether that’s what someone’s recorded in a history text or whether it’s our personal recollection of an event. The memory [...]
Perhaps some of you are familiar with Sir Ken Robinson’s video from 2006 where he talked, very memorably, about how schools kill creativity. In this, his latest TED talk, he urges us, in his characteristically funny and touching style, to shift from our current standardised learning system to one that is more personalised, creating learning [...]
“There is more to life than increasing its speed” Gandhi Why have we bought in to convenience? In theory, convenience is supposed to offer us less effort, less responsibility, less time and personal energy used and feelings of being in control. Convenience, or rather the efficiency and ease that we believe it gives us, has [...]
In the old “business as usual” paradigm it’s ok to exploit others for your own gains. Ethical, sustainable business seeks to challenge this perspective and to encourage a more responsible, caring and sharing attitude to those with whom we work and collaborate. Anil Gupta is on a mission: to support grassroots innovators, who are rich [...]
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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