Category Archives: Sustainablity
Living with less
Living a simpler life with less benefits self and others. I currently only have a limited one gigabyte of bandwidth a month as an internet connection, which means I have to be careful how I use it. Two thirds of the month of May is gone, and I have used up half my allocation. I …
Gain prosperity by cutting expenses
Rebel against the present economic paradigm to increase personal prosperity. The current economic paradigm demands that the individual works long hours, to buy products produced through the exploitation of people and nature, which they don’t need, which they throw away to pollute the environment. Makes no sense to me. Food has recently been my target …
The oak that fell to entropy
Being sustainable now will be the difference of who survives and dies in future. Besieged by snow and wind for weeks, a great storm sent a 1,200-year-old oak tree crashing to the ground. The Pontfadog Oak growing in Wrexham in Wales was one of the oldest trees in Britain, a meeting point of the ancient …
Four ages of humanity
There is a close relationship between climate change and the ages of humanity. Various traditions break human history into four ages, with climate change evident causing each age to end. Hesiod living in circa 750 BCE in Greece lists five ages, Ovid a Roman in the closing decades from 43 BCE listed four ages. Hesiod …
Bridges to prosperity
I review the purpose of this blog. (Warning potentially deep philosophy ahead!) In my town of Colchester the Celtic leader Cunobelin, the Romans considered the first king of Britain, struck an estimated one million gold coins. Upon some of these coins was the image of an ear of corn, a Celtic symbol of prosperity. In …
Experience determines who we are
DNA provides the foundation, but what we experience, do and think determines what we become. As a result of my interests in history, business and sustainability I study the human mind. I ask in the matter of sustainability why humanity appears blind, suicidal or stupid in its pursuit of belief or behaviour that causes misery, …
The fool that laughed
Speaking to fools is a waste of life. Recently I was drawn into a discussion about the future of humanity and sustainability. The person I spoke to laughed at me, it was kind of humiliating to be invited to share ideas and then have a person laugh at you. I usually only share my ideas …
A global leaky bucket
Global weather extremes will force people to hard choices. I write this in despair, it is snowing again here in Colchester UK. I admit envy for those of you who live in California or Hong Kong area, I see your photographs where the seasons always seem to be warm and sunny. The northern Jet Stream …
The joy of feedback
All feedback is good, both positive and negative. I sent an e-mail to the director of the Essex Sustainability Institute giving positive feedback how their lectures had influenced me in introducing sustainability to my business and life; they fed back to me how happy they were to hear this and wanted to use my quote …
Cyprus fallout
Bank savings are no longer sacred. I play chess, often that knowing experience arises when I see my doom, wherever I move I am checkmated. It is my opinion that in the endgame Cyprus faced a similar chess ending, they were going to lose whatever they did. Nobody will now invest in Cyprus, all the …
