Introduction to Permaculture and Meditation
We’re back! We had to cancel three courses because of coronavirus, but we made it through lockdown at the farm with the help of our Australian friend, Grant. There are worse places to be confined! Our first post-lockdown course, which was lots of fun, was in mid-June…
Winter has well and truly arrived here at The Big Raise and the pond is full for the first time since the spring of 2018. Hurrah! Our wood burner heats most of the house pretty effectively. It takes about two hours to get the living room from 12C to 20C. By the end of…
Good news – our September permaculture and meditation course was full (and the participants were lovely!), and our October and November courses are also full. People are already asking about our spring 2020 courses so here are the dates: 14–16 February – Permaculture…
On June 20, in the small Siberian town of Verkhoyansk, north of the Arctic Circle, a heat wave baking the region peaked at 38 degrees Celsius—just over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It was the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic. In a world without climate…
Earth had its hottest May ever [recorded] last month, continuing an unrelenting climate change trend as 2020 is set to be among the hottest 10 years ever, scientists with the Copernicus Climate Change Service announced on Friday. It’s virtually certain that this year…
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have risen strongly to a new peak this year, despite the impact of the global effects of the coronavirus crisis. The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere reached 417.2 parts per million in May, 2.4ppm higher than the peak of…
Extinction Rebellion is an international movement that uses non-violent civil disobedience in an attempt to halt mass extinction and minimise the risk of social collapse. Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, said Mandela. History is calling from the…
When she realised that her generation wouldn’t have a future unless the world’s politicians acted on climate change, 15-year-old Greta Thunberg skipped school in August 2018 to protest outside the Swedish parliament. What started as a one person strike soon gained…
You want milk for your breakfast, but you’re starting to think that cow’s milk, which is mostly brutally extracted from slave animals, which is hard to digest because it’s meant for calves not humans, and which has almost all the goodness removed from it in the…
