Book review: Snö, by Sverker Sörlin
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
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GOODBYE2025/HELLO2026
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many, Sighs, short and infrequent, were … Continue reading GOODBYE2025/HELLO2026
Resisting Christmas Consumerism with the anticipation of Advent
Advent Anxiety grows as lists of To-Dos grow longer and bank balances grow smaller. How ironic that Christmas, a holiday marking the birth of a child in a humble stable, … Continue reading Resisting Christmas Consumerism with the anticipation of Advent
‘The opposite of poverty isn’t wealth, it’s justice.’
On 20th September I left home before sunrise to travel 400 miles to London. Then I marched with complete strangers and listened to an array of passionate speakers, some of whom … Continue reading ‘The opposite of poverty isn’t wealth, it’s justice.’
Total Joy
A post script to my blog, Total Disbelief, one year on. To our joy, and without needing a petition, after all, Parish Buying, the churches’ bulk-buying scheme has nowterminated its dealings with Total Energies and adopted … Continue reading Total Joy
Weaving Futures – Further Reflections from the Sustainable Fashion Forum
In an age where so much of what we create is destined to be discarded, the idea of designing for disassembly offers the possibility of a quiet revolution. It’s a … Continue reading Weaving Futures – Further Reflections from the Sustainable Fashion Forum
Book review: Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis’s Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism argues that the capitalist system has been replaced by a new, even more exploitative economic order he calls technofeudalism. The book has generated significant … Continue reading Book review: Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
What does the Rich List really measure?
BLOG: In an age when an individual can be richer than entire countries, Mike Zeidler, one of the Centre for Thriving Places’s co-founders and Board member invites us to reimagine … Continue reading What does the Rich List really measure?
Joy in Enough 