I started on my journey concerned about wildlife. It was not that I did not care about societal injustices or did nothing about them, but I felt I was most qualified to do something about the natural environment. It turns out that as I have progressed along this path I have had to come to terms with being unqualified in […]
Where Is Our $100bn a Year?
We have set up a fundraising page (soon to be pages) to raise the funds for helping the people who are already severely affected by climate change. The first charity is Shelter Box who are providing emergency shelter and tools for families who have lost their homes to climate disasters. COP26 was meant to deliver financial reparations (aka loss and […]
How Mindfulness Can Help for COP26 and Beyond
The past few weeks and months may have felt like a rather frantic swimming in a soup of social media, news and documentaries and all sorts of busyness to try to make sure that important messages about the need for urgent climate action are heard. There has been a dizzying array of events and announcements to try to keep abreast […]
COP26 – #LetsGetReal
In case you have not heard, world leaders are meeting in Glasgow in a few days to discuss what they can do about climate change. If you want to learn more about this, there are lots of resources already online. I want to talk about some of the challenges we face but also why I feel there is a lot […]
Mini Connection Journey
This year, I have been connecting with people all around the world – we have been coming together with a common interest in helping people and planet. It has made me realise the importance of having these interactions, as well as other types of connection. I have made a short introduction video here. Connection with the Earth For the first […]
The Climate Reality Leadership Corps
When I was growing up, I would watch people complaining on the news about some issue saying that “someone should do something about it.” It frustrated me that there was never any sense of who or what they should be doing. There was always the implication that we are all happy to complain about things but never willing to step […]
Nature-Connected Neighbourhoods
The 2019 State of Nature report presented a gloomy picture of the declines in UK wildlife since the 1970s. According to the report, butterfly and moth populations are down by 17% and 25% respectively and 26% of UK mammal species are at risk of becoming extinct in the UK. Hedgehogs have been in “massive long-term declines.” There are multiple causes […]
Climate Anxiety – An Appropriate Response
There’s a lot of focus on eco-anxiety specifically in young people and the toll it is having on them. It should be a wake-up call to fix the source of the problem, but it runs into a number of false narratives:1. It affects only young people2. It only affects them because they do not have the skills to deal with […]
Net Zero – Change Not Sacrifice
First off, I am largely dodging the conversation around the issues with the term “net zero.” To cut to the chase on this, yes, we are going to need to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere because we have already overshot many of the national budgets, placing a hugely unfair burden on the Global South. Let’s assume, however, that when […]
The Human-Nature Disconnect
People protect what they care about. As we have become increasingly isolated from nature, it is little wonder that our behaviours are not always helpful for wildlife or the planet. Children and adults have all been experiencing this human-nature disconnect. A few years ago, the Oxford Junior Dictionary removed at least 50 nature words, including acorn, dandelion and ivy. This […]