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 group of people. Yet, walking [...]

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 [...]

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 in [...]

“…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 [...]