As humanity has extended its reach the planet has seemingly shrunk giving rise to the concept of ‘Spaceship Earth’. If you have to go journeying through the cold, black void you really couldn’t really do better then our 6 star vessel. This baby comes equipped not just with the essentials (forests to produce oxygen, fungi […]
So long as you are competing to ‘get ahead’ in life or working to get more things you are a rat in a race and the finish line is extinction.
Transparency, interdependency and interconnectedness are defining characteristics of both the evolving internet and the coming ecological age.
Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the underlying nature of humankind? How much hope do you invest in our future? Depending on your perspective global warming will seem like either a crisis or an opportunity. If you are pessimistic about the nature of humans then you probably believe that we are just competitive creatures whose […]
The stories we tell ourselves reveal the dominant themes of our cultural psyche. It is clear that our perception of human extinction is no longer science fiction, but what effect does seeing this on the big screen have on us?
Cyclists are safer to carefully go ahead of traffic and jump reds because this makes them more visible to cars. Making this illegal endangers lives. If it is legal for pedestrians to cross a road anywhere irrespective of lights… why can’t cyclists? We are of comparable size and shape and weight. The cyclist and the […]
Film review of There Will Be Blood: this visceral, poignant, haunting behemoth of a movie takes no prisoners. It is simultaneously an unrelenting portrait of an evil man and the documenting of a period of history in which the world changed forever.
Review of a self-help book by Dr Chris Johnstone. The book provides a detailed guide to creating change. Sometimes the motivation for change may be dealing with problems like smoking. In other cases we may want to change because we realize we could do more with our lives. Whether the decision is to retrain, change […]
While we have oceans….
There is an emergency on planet earth and these dudes have made a whole album about it!
There is a hole in the atmosphere
