Real Wealth and All That

Above image happily kidnapped from  ‘Essence of Life’ facebook page. My friend posted this picture-quote on her facebook wall the other day and I thought it was brilliant. So I’m sharing it with you! (At least partially because today is too much of a lazy Sunday for me to write one of the articles brewing … Continue reading →

Inspired Times magazine – look!

Since January, I’ve been doing a work experience placement with Inspired Times magazine. I’m surprised I haven’t bragged about it before now actually, but there we go. It’s a positive lifestyle magazine, mostly about holistic health and green living. I basically bus to their office once or twice a week and help them out with … Continue reading →

10:10’s where it’s at

I’ve come onto my new-post screen today to wax lyrical about something cool. It’s not a new thing (I believe it was born in 2010) but the other day I was wondering how they were getting on, and it turns out they’re doing swimmingly. They’re now global and have success stories from all over the … Continue reading →

Rio+20 – The Optimist and the Cynic

As I’ve been reading about the Sustainable Development Conference outlined in my last post, I’ve been thinking that it seems almost too good to be true. I’ve read the Zero Draft document, and a report entitled Green Economies to Green Societies, plus information provided on the official website. They talk of creating green, equitable and … Continue reading →

Earth Summit 2012

This June, there will be a United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil. Also going by the names of “Rio+20” and “Earth Summit 2012”, this will undoubtedly be a great milestone, an example of history unfolding around us as we speak. We can only hope it will have a more impressive outcome than the 2009 Copenhagen … Continue reading →

The Happy Planet Index

Today I watched this video of a guy called Nic Marks, from the New Economics Foundation giving a talk about what he terms the “Happy Planet Index”. It’s a way of measuring a nation’s progress, as an alternative to GDP. I think it’s a brilliant idea because GDP doesn’t necessarily reflect a nation’s level of happiness… Of … Continue reading →