The lights are always on. The Christmas tree outside the shopping mall, the laptop on my desk. But tonight I will leave the lights out and visit the darkness. Even the moon won’t show her face this night. Darkness. An uncomfortable word. A word waiting for Light. Away with the darkness of our ignorance and …
The flowing river
“Look, mushrooms!” The tiny rental car hiccups to a stop. The moving boxes slide dangerously, but we manage to squeeze past them and out of the car. Freddy is already on his knees at the base of an ancient pine tree. Everywhere we look, we see mushrooms popping up from among the fallen needles and …
Talking to a tree
I hurry along the narrow path. The rain has finally overtaken me, here in the relative wilderness at the edge of Reading. I know there will be a place to shelter around the corner. There it is, the plane tree. Knobbly, lopsided and with branches that almost reach the ground. Hugging it would take four …
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Climate crisis? Try this!
It’s a problem that everyone runs into every now and then. It is a another day at the office, you are just getting into the flow of working wonders for humanity, medical progress, economic growth — and then your planet suddenly turns out to have a climate crisis. What to do? I discuss five home …
We can change
Our way of life is destroying the planet. We hear this message regularly. When I switch on the washing machine, the CO2 that is released in the process of generating electricity causes the atmosphere to warm up a little bit more. As a result, the chances of extreme weather have already become much greater, and …