Tag: socio-ecology

  • Go with the flow: PeoplePower turns up trumps

    Turning a frown into a smile amongst ordinary people working to improve their environment Today started badly there is no doubt about that. The US became even more of a theme park than usual and an Orange Man who hates almost everyone but himself had become President. Yet haven’t most of us known for some time that 21st…

  • The Furnace Place Dormouse Project: connecting a community with the sleepy woodland (?) citizen

    The Furnace Place Dormouse Project: connecting a community with the sleepy woodland (?) citizen

    After a busy week of hedgerows, harvest mice and River’s Week planning, time to relax…with a Dormouse Box Check! 9am in the woods at Furnace Place Estate (FPE), I met with Margaret, Wendy, Alan Mary and Nigel from the Haslemere Natural History Society (HNHS) who have been checking the boxes with me for the last…

  • A journey through The Web of Life:

    This post is about why my blog is so named and how a connection, in this case with ideas in a book can be life changing. The first book that opened my eyes to science was Fritjof Capra’s book Web of Life: A New Synthesis of Mind and Matter (1996). If I’m honest, sitting here…

  • Reconnecting

      I started this blog back in 2013 to explore my interest in connectivity and how connections, being connected and conversely the state of isolation, is expressed throughout the living world. The hedgerow that joins to woods; a river flowing through the landscape; a story that brings together two communities. I think a lot- too…

  • Is the hijack of Christmas by consumerism a bad thing or has this modern religion done more for World Peace than the old ones?

    The annual Christmas urban melee for presents is over. Waistlines, expanded to bursting point are now forced into post-indulgence exercise programmes. New presents lie discarded and recycling bins are fit to burst with wrapping paper and packaging. Religious leaders typically bemoan the hijacking of the traditional message of Christmas by commerce in a festival of consumption, but recently I’ve had cause…