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Right Livelihood: How to Make Sustainable Money from Home
Our world is in flux, and many of us may be finding it difficult to adjust. Change can be terrifying – but in these difficult times, we need to consider how to harness and embrace it as…
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How to Serve Your Community during Lockdown
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…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Eating Sustainably in London
We all know and love London as an incredible foodie city. However, we also know that the average diet is an unfortunate driver of climate change. Our current food system, the meat consumption, food waste, and plastic…
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What Coronavirus Teaches Us about Climate Change
Seemingly born out of the live animal market in Wuhan, China, the coronavirus has exploded into an international pandemic. China quarantined millions of people and basically shut down its economy. Italian leaders grounded flights, suspended mortgage payments,…
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Why We Should Rethink Zero Waste
I eat a lot of tofu. And I buy the bulk of it from a Chicago company called Phoenix Bean. They make this amazing smoked five-spice tofu, which when you lay it down on a skillet of…
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Europe by Train: England to Sweden, Return
This past December, I took the train from London to a small town in Dalarna, Sweden. About a year before, I made the same journey by plane. Travelling on land wins hands down; not only was it…
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The Human Cost of Our Phones
2019 was another year of “techlash,” of outrage against social media’s continued spread of Fake News and conspiracy theories, its purposefully addictive designs, and its insidious invasion of our privacy. Past excitement about the power of social…
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Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution
This is an extract from the book Being the Change by Peter Kalmus, published by New Society Publishers, 2017-08-01, reprinted here with kind permission. Chapter 1: Waking Up “Trees and people used to be the best of…
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On Ethical Consumerism
Interested in ethical issues like climate crisis, ecological collapse, animal welfare, and human rights? Looking to avoid problems like child labor or unfair working conditions for garment workers? Would you rather see a world full of ethical…
