Category: General
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The Certainty Merchants
In the past year or so I have been undergoing a transition in my thinking and practice away from conservation ecology into a more socio-ecological position. there are no wildlife problems after all,only human ones right? Ive always been interested in systems thinking and complexity ever since reading Fritjof Kapra’s Web of Life, but I’m…
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Savage Gods: Paul Kingsnorth may at last have found the real enemy of the environment, and they are words themselves.
Cooling off for six hours in a police cell in Esher, Surrey, in 1997, with King Arthur Pendragon taking up residence in the cell next door, I had a moment to reflect on the power of words, language and stories. We had both been arrested at…
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Craft is good for your Health
An article in The Conversation explores the benefits of practicing craft for a healthier life with a similar theme and sources to my previous blog Spooncarving- A Gateway Drug to pro-environmental behaviour and landscape advocacy?
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Spooncarving- a ‘gateway drug’ to pro-environmental behaviour and landscape advocacy?
We’ve had regularly good class sizes (5-6 people) for the four spoon carving workshops I have delivered here as part of the Ontario Rural Skills Network and interest doesn’t seem to be abating. SpoonfestUK in August 2019 is sold out as well. I cannot keep up with the number of wonderful ‘Spoon People’ out…
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Life IN the hedge- toward a monitoring programme for Ontario’s hedgerows (Earth Day 2019)
Yesterday- Earth Day 2019- felt like the warmest day yet this Spring here in Ontario- a balmy 19 degrees, a perfect day to get started on the monitoring programme for our Mount Wolfe Farm hedgerows. We planted two hedgerows here at the farm in 2017 and 2018. The 2017 hedge was started in the…