Awakening to a new economics
The vast majority of us now accept that single use plastics are a bad thing. Most people will take a reusable cup for their morning takeaway coffee. So how long will it take for national and local government to realise that, if … Continue reading Retrofit First – an argument in favour of retaining the building that has been built
At a recent on line talk for the Joy in Enough community we were privileged to hear a talk by Dr Ian Christie from the Centre for the understanding of … Continue reading “The Honor Code”
The Ministry for the Future By Peter Grimwood The Ministry for the Future was the title of a meeting I attended in Oxford on June 13th sponsored by Hertford College … Continue reading The Ministry for the Future
“The climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of the imagination” wrote Amitav Ghosh in 2016. In his book The Great Derangement, he notes that literature has … Continue reading Fiction for a way through the climate crisis
Tony Emerson has been involved in Green Christian for many years, and was instrumental in the formation of Joy in Enough. His latest venture is into fiction. In this interview … Continue reading Interview: stories for a better future
A story by Rev Hilary Bond: It all began with a handful of soil; dust we sometimes say, but it wasn’t really dust; not the dry weightless stuff that dulls … Continue reading A handful of soil – a story
This story, written in the style of William Morris’ ‘News from Nowhere’, originally featured in the short story collection Radical Visions of Government. It is by Simon Parker, and is reproduced here under a … Continue reading Beneath the Stones – a story
Louise Williams heard the results of the IPCC report on 1.5 degrees and was inspired to write a short story. It’s the conversation she doesn’t want to have with her … Continue reading Now or never – a short story
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