The open market will free us all (dot dot dot) My Arse.

While hard earned tax dollars are used to bail out naughty bankers once again, you have to wonder how stable this whole global market economic system we are living under really is (or is meant to be).
Resources make the world go round – money just happens to be the one resource the money men are [...]

Friday’s Green Icon – Sunita Narain

This week’s icon is a lady well known in her home country of India. For decades she has managed successfully to marry the ideals of political activism, environmentalism and sustainable development in ways that we in the West are far from achieving.
Beginning her illustrious career as a writer and researcher for the State of India’s [...]

Friday’s Green Icon – Chico Mendes

‘At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realise I am fighting for humanity’.
On the evening of December 22, 1988, one week after his 44th birthday, Chico Mendes was murdered at his home in the Amazon rainforest. He died [...]

Friday’s Green Icon – Michael Braungart

This week’s icon is a man with a belief in the idea that humans can have a positive ecological footprint, one that actually supports Life on earth. He’s also got the academic credentials to back that statement up, and the wherewithal to do something about it, and that is a powerful combination.
He’s also German, and [...]

The most significant film of the new millennium?

Bit of a brash statement there I know, but stick with me on this one. I do not say things like this lightly. I’m a film lover, a filmmaker and I’ve studied and read plenty on the subject of film and its place in history.
I also despise (but can’t stop myself from reading) the latest [...]

LSD and the BBC

Believe me, I’ve watched alot of television in my day and despite the obvious arguments against (of which I am a massive supporter), every now and again something comes along that bites you as you stuff your face with crisps and drink another cup of dodgy tea. It makes you rethink your attitudes to the [...]

The Magical Online Rubbish Tip

Interesting article over on Living in a Toxic World about on-line software removing our need for old hardware and thus reducing electronic waste. Why buy Vista and Office when you get download a free OS and use Google Docs? Why store all your personal and business files locally when they can be securely stored and [...]

Earth Liberation Front – You Know… Morons!!

I found this worrying article over one www.weearth.com. The genius’s over at E.L.F. are at it again. ‘”Built Green? Nope black!” read a spray-painted sign bearing the ELF initials at the now devastated site.’ Cute. Some new recruit definitely got the day off for that one. As he walked home, he probably spent most of [...]

The Seiderhouse Rules!

I just discovered a new word thanks to this gentleman, Eric Seider. I am too tired now to ponder it any futher, but I believe I believe it is a word that will become very important to me, to human communities and to the earth overall.
And that word is ‘permaculture’. Google it. Read about it. [...]

The Human as Observer

Can’t think of a better way to start this blog than to share with you this beautiful photo taken by J Alan in the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York City recently. Some pretty inspiring images over on his main site here.

It is easy to be sceptical of the human race. Too easy in fact. [...]