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Iszy Peck - normal is not the same as right!
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Iszy Peck is a Bristol based singer-song writer, with a lot on her mind . . . .
Let’s Save Ourselves
Are we going to tell ourselves that it is our right to live however we want? Is it too hard to change? Or, are we going to accept that many of the things we now consider [...]
10,000 planes - A GreenThing film
Friday, January 9th, 2009This is a great little film, Stay Grounded, from the guys at The GreenThing. Someone asked me last night “how hard is it never flying?”. . . well I occasionally find the idea appealing on one level but really once the false connection with holiday is broken it’s not such a big thing. I enjoy [...]
Daniel Start’s wild swimming around Britain
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008I met Daniel Start at the end of last Summer when he moved into my friend Jo’s house in Bristol. He’d just finished writing a book, Wild Swimming, about all the beautiful rivers and pools he’d visited in the UK where you can go swimming and he’s done a blog for us on his travels [...]
Food, farming and flying
Friday, April 18th, 2008As the impacts of oil price on food lead to hunger for millions, there is no better time to change down a gear and find better ways to spend our precious time relaxing and eating locally.
The ever rising price of oil not only directly impacts the price of food through artificial fertilizers, pesticides and [...]
Love, marriage and a horseless carriage
Monday, January 21st, 2008David Vaughan sent me this great shot of him taking a new bride and groom on the first leg of a low CO2 honeymoon.
And his reason for taking a pledge. . . .
“I work on the railways in this country, so I get a good deal in Europe. Also, I love cycling. So if I [...]
Reasons to be free from flying
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007I thought I would post some of the recent reasons that people have given for being free from flying. This is in part a response to an email earlier in the week from a good friend after he read an article in the Times, “Airlines to make billions from CO2 trade” by the Transport Correspondent, [...]
Wendell Berry on flying
Monday, August 6th, 2007Here are some reflections from the American essayist, Wendell Berry, on boarding a plane from America to visit family in Ireland.
“For me, air travel always has about it an insistent feeling of unreality. I feel that I am where I do not belong, with a totally arbitrary assemblage of other people who do not [...]