I spent a lot of time today writing a piece on my Facebook page which is where I do most of my work these days. I thought I would share that here verbatim other than tidying up the links. I hope it may help someone who may be struggling to come to terms with the... Continue Reading →
A Gift For Any Season
I have no intention of wishing anyone at this time of year a merry this or a happy new that or a jolly anything else. If there is one message that I would wish to offer as 2015 draws to a close, it is this: There is nothing in what we have done over the... Continue Reading →
Missing The Point, Again. Why?
I am featuring today a great article by Samuel Alexander, author and a research fellow of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at University of Melbourne and a founder of the Simplicity Institute. You can read this very informative article here: If everyone lived in an ‘ecovillage’, the Earth would still be in trouble. Believe me,... Continue Reading →
“Messieurs, c’est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot.”
The Last Word From the start of my involvement with blogging and social media I have built up a list of favourite quotations. Among them is the following from Louis Pasteur the microbiologist and discoverer of the role of microbes in the process of fermentation and who played a large role in the field of... Continue Reading →