Generation Food

If you are involved with, or interested in the the future of food, be that its production or purchase, then the BBC Radio 4 Food Programme ‘Generation Food’ is well worth a Listen.

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A New Year Resolution

As Christmas becomes but a memory, and the New Year turns into being just January, Alan Mann considers the value of the sorts of resolutions we make.

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A Christmas Meditation

EarthAbbey member, Alan Mann, reflects on what Christmas gives to those who long to live more in tune with the earth.

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Yuletide Solitude: An Invitation

EarthAbbey Member, Amanda Miles, runs Breathing Space, which ‘seeks to nurture contemplative practice, encourage the creative spirit and cultivate an affinity with the natural world.’ Here she extends an invitation to temporarily escape the hustle and bustle which seems to pervade the run up to Christmas.

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Contemplating the Book of Nature

EarthAbbey member, Chris Hillman, is warden of Elsie Briggs House of Prayer in Bristol. The House is committed to exploring the contemplative tradition. As someone who has found increasing pleasure in being in nature, and also being delighted by some of the rich writings we have about the natural world, Chris has established a reading group to explore our relationship to the world we inhabit.

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Occupy - an unusual sort of protest

It is very interesting watching politicians and church trying to get their heads and hearts round the Occupy movement. It is not the usual kind of protest. It hangs about in tents. It doesn’t carry the usual shrill demands, but invites conversation. It is not about a single identifiable policy, but is trying to promoting a radical change in the way things work. And one aspect of it that should not be lost is the link between our economy and the way we treat the earth.

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Localising the Global Economy

With growing concerns and protest over the global free market economy and the Eurozone, Alan Mann wonders if the time is right to see local currencies become the norm rather than the exception.

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Growing Awareness

It may be premature to suggest the Growzones project is going viral, but the idea is beginning to have a life of its own when it comes to publicity.

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Facing Up To The Future

With all the focus on transport and energy, we don’t often consider the environmental cost of fruit, veg and meat, especially that which is produced relatively locally to where we live. But a new initiative by the Soil Association aims to address the environmental impact of feeding us.

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Running Rivers Dry

With the rain pouring down again this morning, you would think that worrying about water might be the last thing on my mind. But a BBC Panorama programme reminded me that it’s not just the arid parts of our world that face an uncertain future when it comes to establishing and maintaining a sustainable water supply.

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