coach, writer, educator downshifting, sustainable living, sustainable business
The mind can go in a thousand directions But on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, a gentle wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms. Thich Nhat Hahn. Simply walking is one of the easiest, cheapest and most effective ways I know of creating peace within myself or within a [...]
Last week, a few friends and I paid a visit to our local cinema to see Food Inc. According to the website Hungry for Change this documentary film exposes America’s industrialised food system and its effect on our environment, health, economy and workers’ rights. In our town, the turnout to watch the film in was [...]
“Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.” James Allen How often do you feel guilty for choosing a course of action – [...]
We are in the middle of Fairtrade Fortnight here in the UK and I find myself feeling somewhat irritated with that phrase. Why do we need reminding to buy fair trade? Why don’t we just choose fairly traded goods all the time? How come there are such things as non-fairly traded products? There’s a practice [...]
“…on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much – the wheel, New York, wars and so on – whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed [...]
I was prompted to write this blog and my Love Letter to the Future by a campaign that Greenpeace ran during the Copenhagen summit. However, it seems just as pertinent on Valentine’s Day, as a reflection on our love for others, for the earth and for other life forms. It also reminds me of the [...]
Apparently January 25th was officially the most depressing day of 2010. Called “Blue Monday” the Monday on the last week of January each year is the day when we’re most likely to feel down and lack-lustre. This is often attributed to the combination of debt from Christmas, cold and wet weather, suffering from colds and [...]
Are you one of those people who run small businesses based on their passions, but shy away from the “Business of business”? I too, like many of you I suspect, have often struggled in my attempts to reframe the concept of “Marketing” in particular. To be fair to all of us, what we seem to [...]
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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