Sustainabilty/Resilience Tag

10 Oct

Posted at 22:51h in Sarah's Journal by

Under the eye of Nelson and the banner of Extinction Rebellion, Dr Emily Grossman comes to the stage in a white lab coat printed with the familiar hour glass logo. She packs a punch with a brief but clear presentation of current peer-reviewed climate science. Thousands of people – of all kinds including scientists – are taking to the streets to draw attention to the facts and predictions that people find it hard to hear, to really comprehend, and that governments fail to act on. Take the facts in, but hold them spaciously to allow room for the feelings they invoke. Let your feelings crack open your heart, but then reach out to connect through love.
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28 Sep

Posted at 18:14h in Sarah's Journal by

My wellbeing is balanced by putting myself first; and then taking care of others with any surplus energy. This practice is foundational, having experienced what happens when I don’t. Today it means describing my biomechanical symptoms and inner state of mind, sticking out my tongue, offering up my wrists. The acupuncturist’s reassuringly capable hands feel my pulse, tap in needles, heat me with burning mugwort on ginger and vibrate me with tuning forks. I absorb it all, feeling the shape of my need.

20 Sep

Posted at 20:07h in Sarah's Journal by

Ten clear glass bottles wait for the milk van/person. They arrive next door with turquoise/pink foil tops. Milk drunk, they will be collected, washed, re-used. This normal part of my childhood is now an out of the ordinary labour of the environmentally conscious. I remember Blue Peter appeals and saving our silver milk bottle tops. In our house normal/British Rail/builders tea is now abnormal. We sip our herbal uppers/downers, fruity or spicy. For cereal there’s a tetra pack of coconut/almond.

09 Sep

Posted at 21:57h in Sarah's Journal by

There is a blueprint for living within our means. Examples of cultures living by taking only what they need, of sharing, of co-operative community are described. We hear from indigenous representatives – from Ju|’hoan (Khoisan), Idu Mishmi (India), Bishnoi (India), “We don’t conserve, it is our way of life that conserves,” says Kitelo Chongeywo, Ogiek (Kenya), “the future is all of us being sustainable”. Despite the restriction of the learning environment (school desks, lecture theatre, power point presentations) we find moments to sound together and to make eye contact, to hope for solidarity. www.flourishingdiversity.com