“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.” Lao Tzu
You know you’d like to reduce your spending, review your cost of living and make do with less, but however much you think about it, nothing seems to spur you into action. What’s stopping you?
Being “frugal” – sparing, economical, careful [...]

“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 become part [...]

What is sustainable change?
I believe it’s when we are able to cultivate a new habit, a novel way of being or doing, and maintain that long term. We might find this very easy to do for some habits, for example finding an alternative route to work and sticking to it, or deciding to wake up [...]

It has occurred to me that when we are overly stressed, what we are actually encountering is a misuse of our personal energy. In the same way that we are collectively misusing the sources of fuel that the earth has to offer and causing global stress, on a personal level we can sometimes find ourselves [...]

I’ve been told that the Centre for Alternative Technology, CAT, is in a very serious situation and is requesting help from supporters.
Of course, there are many excellent causes to direct money to. Please be assured that I don’t plan to blog on all of them or even many of them. Rather, you will find some [...]