This pretty site aims to be an inspiring, educational and helpful resources directory, with some (hopefully!) helpful information thrown in, and a few inspiring quotes, all made beautiful with images from some of our favourite artists, and even the odd music video! Designed to enlighten on a new kind of England that is possible – plant-based, zero-waste, fairly-made and (mostly) local. If you prefer coastal dog walks to shopping malls and a good veg box over a company car, this site is for you!
England is brilliant! But it doesn’t have to be a nation of growth-focued, celebrity-obsessed, traffic-locked stress. We can be so much more. Together as a nation (and beyond), we can save the planet, help animals, reduce rubbish, slash food/energy bills, plant community gardens, and join grassroots campaigns to create real positive change. Let’s celebrate all that is wonderful about our beautiful country – seaside piers, foraging for blackberries, indie shops, slow rattling trains and tolerant politics.
England is a strange, old, broken land. It feels to me like a country suffering from a spiritual sickness. The small and the local stamped out by the powerful, the placeless and the profitable. The march of the shopping malls and pointy glass skyscrapers continues apace: new airports, motorways, roads and high-speed lines ad infinitum. Global capitalism is eating the soul of the nation. What will be left after it has digested its meal? Paul Kingsnorth
At the moment, the entire global economy seems to be built on the model of digging things up from one hole in the ground on one side of the earth, transporting them around the world, using them for a few days – and sticking them in a hole in the ground on the other side of the world. George Monbiot