Awakening to a new economics
Sometimes it’s useful to have a summary of headline figures and stats. See below for a summary of key facts with sources. Global temperatures are projected to remain at or … Continue reading Global warming – where are we?
In a recent essay for Aeon, the journalist Gavin Evans explores a quiet but profound crisis: climate change is making parts of the world uninsurable. And when insurance fails, much … Continue reading When Insurance Breaks, What Is Enough?
How do we move from checking boxes for an award to nurturing a deeper, more joyful faith through our ecological efforts? At All Saints Church, Kings Heath our journey toward … Continue reading Silver Award or Sacred Soil? One Church’s Journey Beyond Eco-Policy to a Creed of Care
Every year London quietly produces an orchard’s worth of fruit! However far too much of it drops, bruises, and disappears into the compost heap. In 2025 three fruit picking groups … Continue reading Could you start a fruit harvesting group?
Here is a book review by Jeremy Williams of Snö, by Sverker Sörlin, that chimes with the recent themes we’ve been discussing… We had a brief flurry of snow a … Continue reading Book review: Snö, by Sverker Sörlin
Following my article on the Joy of Sledging, and anticipating more (yet sadly never appearing) snow this weekend. I hope you can forgive my bowdlerisation of Blake’s classic ‘Jerusalem’ in … Continue reading Did those feet in ancient time skate upon England’s lakes and rivers white?
There are about 25,000 people, including 8,000 children, on Birmingham’s social housing waiting list, living in temporary accommodation or on the streets. Of the many estates built post-war to house … Continue reading The right to housing. What can we learn from the building of social housing in the 1960s?
The last book I read by Tim Jackson, Post Growth, saw him stepping back from what you might expect from an economist and taking a more narrative driven, philosophical approach. … Continue reading Book review: The Care Economy, by Tim Jackson
Joy in Enough 