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COP 26’s Nuclear Sidebar The fact that COP26 was crawling with huge numbers of delegates from Big Oil and Gas got a lot of attention from the media. Less attention was paid to the large number of pro-nuclear delegates parasitically inserting themselves into as many events as they could engineer access to – facilitated at…

Dealing With Anxiety By Michael Lewin “A postulant who has come to the end of his rope and wants to leave, but who has been dissuaded (not by me), stands in the novitiate library leafing through a book called: Relax and Live. Sooner or later it comes to that.”  Thomas Merton   We all suffer…

Our youth is the future. Listen to them! Listen to Greta! Get your government to listen!

REGENERATION MADE REAL By Jonathon Porritt There’s so much rubbish talked about ‘regeneration’ these days. Regenerative Agriculture. Regenerative Tourism. Regenerative Business (whatever that might be). Regenerative Justice. I’ve even heard people talking about ‘Regenerative Capitalism’ as if to prove that the reach of a good oxymoron knows no bounds. If you want to cut through…

Avoid fighting and, instead, embrace an attitude that places pain in an open, non-judgmental space for a healing to surface.

Be a savvy shopper! And grow your own vegetables when you're able. Reduce your plastic waste!

Walking... peace, awareness, beauty, now-ness...

From his homeland in Scotland to his move to the US, John Muir immersed himself in natural science - then wandered away on an amazing botanical and geological excursion...

Mahatma Gandhi was a lawyer, pacifist, anti-colonial nationalist and believed in simple living. He successfully led India to achieve independence from Britain by using non-violent civil disobedience. Perhaps we could all take a lesson from his peaceful ways...