Guide to Eurovision OK, some light relief. At risk of losing any number of friends of good taste and reasonable intelligence, I have to...

UNCHAINING THE WORLD We are facing some hard truths and hard realities as the crisis in the climate system starts to bite. Below are a...

WHAT PLACE VALUE IN A WORLD OF FACT? LIVING WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE FACT-VALUE DUALISM “Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.”...

ECONOMICS, ECOLOGY, AND ETHICS Climate change threatens existence is the message, and people sleep. Climate change threatens the economy,...

The link below opens up an article that gives us some interesting essays on what we can do to address the environmental crisis that...

The Green Party got over one million votes in the general election. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-green-party-got-ove...

E.F. Schumacher is an important figure whose significance has yet to be fully appreciated. People read his book Small is Beautiful, and...

Vatican spells out vision for zero-carbon world. I’ll start with a quote from Chris Mooney: ‘This week — and it still feels strange to...

You always know you are in trouble when you wake up with a crowd gathered around you, and someone with a pained, concerned expression...

May Day: workers of the world unite and take over – their factories. From Istanbul to Barcelona, the co-operative movement is flourishing...

Some hard truths and hard realities to face. If there's any point in writing a book, I'm going to title mine 'The world we could have...

Why ‘commonwealth of virtue’ instead of, say, ‘commonwealth of life’ (the title of Peter Brown’s book)? I refer to virtue for a specific...

Why do I study virtues? Because they are the essential qualities for successful living. Success being conceived in terms of happiness as...

A Place of Joy and Learning – and critical thinking My first year at senior school coincided with a young teacher’s first teaching job at...

A Deeper Freedom Liberal Democracy as an Everyday Morality Charles W. Anderson Publication Year: 2002 “Today those who believe in...

I'm reading this in light of the new Oxfam report which finds that – on current trends – 1% of the world’s population will shortly own...

Being Human What is involved in being human? Awareness, care, kindness, foresight, justice, compassion, consciousness of mortality.And a...

Forget technological messiahs, nothing can save us except ourselves. Technology is us, an extension of who we are, as greedy, stupid and...

My key principles and themes all seem to have ‘comm’ as the stem. There must be a linguistics expert out there who can explain the...

'I had only to open my bedroom window and blue air, love and flowers entered with her.' Floating lovers on flying horses, fiddlers on the...