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Sustainable Weddings: How to Go Green on Your Big Day
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The bride may be wearing white – but how to make sure everything else is green on your big day? Planning a sustainable wedding allows you to enjoy your special occasion and say “I do” without worrying what your excesses have done to our environment. By making the right choices for your nuptials, you can…
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The World after Covid: What Should Change?
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Just over three months ago, we went to our offices, schools, and universities, and potentially saw hundreds of people every day. Today, as we sit in our homes, health services and scientists all around the world are fighting against a virus that has already claimed over 400,000 lives globally. Many say that it has changed…
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How to Serve Your Community during Lockdown
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On the first day of the lockdown we found a handwritten card in our mailbox: “During these difficult times we would like to offer some help or even a chat.” It was from a schoolkid in our street. And the offers kept coming for days, from the local churches, the street associations, the local borough…
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Getting Beyond the Economy: A Journey with Extinction Rebellion
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In April this year I first went to the protests organised across central London by Extinction Rebellion. I had never attended a demonstration before. To my surprise I found myself in a movement that embodied and tied together many of the views, directions and values that had previously made me feel quite isolated but to…
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Magic and the Machine: Notes on Technology and Animism in an Age of Ecological Wipeout
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A hallmark of the puzzling era we’re now living through is a remarkable juxtaposition of two apparently contrary trends. In many social circles, there exists a buoyant sense of possibility, an upbeat and expectant optimism with regard to the near and long-term future. Yet in other societal spheres, a spreading despondency weighs folks down whenever…
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Science, Spirituality and Religion
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Are new scientific discoveries revealing connections with a spiritual view of life? Fritjof Capra argues that they are. The view of science and religion as a dichotomy has a long history, especially in the Christian tradition. Yet there are many scientists who see no intrinsic dichotomy between science and religion, or science and spirituality. At…
