Children need to get outside, because that is what they are hard-wired to do. These days, many ‘indoor parents’ get so frightened, that their children are hardly allowed out. Children’s nature campaigner Richard Louv writes that when he was a child ‘Nature was my Ritalin’, but today he meets zombied-out children who spend their lives playing…
Save the Planet
What is Climate Change? (and how to stop it)
Red & Howling Climate change is something that we hear so much about, and it can be worrying. And indeed, it should be. We only are a few years off from irreversible climate change, which is why Greta is so angry, as the powers that be won’t listen to her. They just pat her on…
Tips for a Zero Waste Burial
Recycled sympathy cards by Whistlefish The hard truth is that one day, all of us will die. But that does not mean that we have to continue to pollute the planet with hardwood coffins, formaldehyde from being embalmed (which leaks into the soil for decades) or wasting trees from umpteen sympathy cards to loved ones….