Over in the US – I kid you not! – I came down a mountain with students from a local college. They moved a heck of a lot quicker than I...

We see the problems besetting the planet, we hear the television and radio news, we read the reports, and demand that something should be...

Nature via nurture Beyond nature vs nurture, innatism vs culturalism. Predisposition is not predetermination. Social epigenetics =...

Why, Whence and Wither - the "Big Questions" of Life Ernst Bloch wrote about 'the principle of hope' as central to a living philosophy....

Love and Knowledge: Innate Moral Grammar I’m half-remembering (and probably mixing up) a quote here, “there’s nothing new, just a lot of...

The Age of (Moral) Ecology We could, if our efforts to address the crisis in the climate system succeed, be entering into the age of...

Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future Positive thinking isn’t naive, it’s the best way to get things done...

THE SURVIVAL OF THE MOST LOVING Why we fight for the living world: it's about love, and it's time we said so. George Monbiot...

ARISTOTLE AND THE REECHANTMENT OF NATURE The magical woods where Aristotle lived with nymphs http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/20...

Peace on Earth. Heaven knows we need it. There was a nice message at midnight mass last night. (St Mary's Lowe House, St Helens, UK)....

Why the Paris climate talks are doomed to failure, like all the others 'Even if the world celebrates a Paris climate deal on December 11,...

Robinson Jeffers and the Poetry of Place The environmental crisis we face is an existential crisis that requires much more than...

THE POETRY OF EARTH On the Grasshopper and Cricket By John Keats The Poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the...

STUDY WAR NO MORE Scientist Carl Sagan calculated that the Cold War had cost some $10 trillion over 40 years. Noel Brown takes up the...

The Rational Universe, Creative Human Agency and the Logic of Collective Action I see the world as 'rational' but not in some timeless...

​ I'm reading that the climate crisis is so bad, and governmental response the world over has been so poor, for so long, that we may have...

Fire and Ice: where would Dante place all of us who are borrowing against this Earth…? BY ROBERT FROST Some say the world will end in...

The Communalism and Democratic Confederalism of Murray Bookchin "The belief that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid...

Moral Concern and Earthcare How Can We Make People Care About Climate Change? Norwegian psychologist Per Espen Stoknes has studied why so...

A comment on Amory Lovins. I have friends who very much advocate the approach of Amory Lovins, emphasising that such an approach has the...