Stella

What the world owes to Norway

 ... The most enlightened thing I've heard about the events in Norway, so far:... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcPrBBAh5tY... Another colleague from Oslo sent an incredibly touching email saying how nobody there is talking about the gun-man, that all their leaders have appeared on... Read More

chop wood, carry water

There is something in loving the mundane which feels very important now, and also worries me a great deal... and it is related to my last blog post about Spiritual Bypassing.. although am not sure yet I can express exactly how.... I love the Zen saying... "Before enlightenment, chop... Read More

What a relief!

This is SO important, I want everyone to listen to this first recording on Spiritual Bypassing , it's tremendous , thanks so much for putting it out there loud and clear for once.... I was in my early twenties when I first witnessed some extreme forms of 'spiritual bypassing' - actual... Read More

Integral Cities

I started working in urban permaculture (a radical sustainability science) about 15yrs ago, in inner London, where our is small organisation, Green Adventure had some success in doing precisely the kind of integrated, community-led projects that the Transition Movement is now... Read More

Avatar is sci-fi about a Teal society!

I was looking forward to a juicy interpretation of this film (having heard the matrix review Ken did which I loved) and was soo disappointed!... The dialogue itself is the hodgepodge of contradictions it claims the film was...... eg. starts with describing tribal as not having invented... Read More