Light bulb moment: I’m suffering Eco-Anxiety! [Editors note: this article was first published in on 5th July. We have republished today because the brilliant video below has just been added. Eileen talks about her eco-anxiety because of climate change fears but ends on a note of hope…. ] It was on waking in the middle
The power of a regular dose of good news to stop us feeling overwhelmed Just as I was having one of those black days when my eco-anxiety was taking hold and I was feeling overwhelmed by the violence, misery and sadness of our world – I guess we all have those days sometimes, don’t we?
The Global Green New Deal: What’s That All About? I’ve been hearing a lot about the ‘Global Green New Deal’ lately so I set off to find out what it’s all about… I’ve come to see that it attempts to cover what needs to be done on a global scale to deal with the climate
The message is coming through loud and clear that imagination is crucial in creating a vision of what a better life could look like. A chilling reminder of how crucial imagination is during these challenging times can be found in the Book of Proverbs: “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” The Global Green
Although I find it challenging, nurturing my feelings of hope is really important I regularly come across people who, if they think about what’s going on in the world, see the future as bleak and say things like ‘There’s no hope’ and ‘What can I do to help change things?’ I can well understand their
Join the people and organisations who are changing the world In my previous series of blogs, looks like the world’s gone mad, I focussed on the issues and problems we see in today’s mad world. Our world is in trouble. The climate is changing dangerously and we are polluting the air, the land and the
Reaching out to other natures conservationists can have such a positive impact: the power and joy of ‘finding people to talk to’ is astonishing! The late summer evening was balmy and the light was fading as I stepped out for a stroll round my neighbourhood before settling in for the night. Before I’d gone far,
It’s tempting to think that a journalist writing for The Times – Nicholas Hellen – had been reading our very own HLE blog and decided to join in our attempts to encourage people to make their gardens more ‘green’ and ‘wildlife-friendly’! This very week, just as we are all feeling the effects of record-breaking high
At the end of a hot summer’s day, when the sun is sinking, the air is cooling and the birds are singing their best before going to bed, what pleasure it is to take a short walk around the neighbourhood, perhaps chatting to the neighbours and looking at the neat suburban gardens. But wait, what’s
How to Stay Healthy and Happy when times are difficult … It’s been said that our mental health is suffering because of the difficult times in which we are living so I was interested when I came across an article giving suggestions on how to cope when the going gets tough. Exercising, spending time