Tag: environment
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Creativity and Human Nature
“Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.” Ai Weiwei One of the biggest and most dangerous mistakes we make is to assume that humans are not natural, that we are capable of acting in ways that are unnatural, and that we are somehow separate from nature. The belief in our separateness…
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Empowerment Through Environmentalism
“Every day the clock resets… Your failures don’t matter. Don’t stress on what was, fight for what could be.” Sean Higgins In the last few years, I’ve found that my call to serve as a Druid has increasingly brought me into contact with the Green Party. Last autumn I became press officer for my local…
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Staying Positive Through Hard Times
Many people are suffering today – financial hardship, poor health, relationship breakdowns, bereavements and uncertain futures. At times it all looks like a rather grim start to the year but that does not mean that one should give into negativity. In many ways what happens to us is governed by our attitude to life as…
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Forgotten Legacy – Fifty Years After ‘Silent Spring’
The fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson’s seminal work ‘Silent Spring’, was in 2012, published first in the USA in 1962. This was the first book of its kind – an outspoken, powerfully argued and well researched condemnation of the reckless use of pesticides in modern agriculture, in urban and rural pest control…