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Jun 29

Climate Change: What Can We Do.

"Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” John Muir Dear Reader, Last night I watched a Panorama episode about what we can ...

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Jun 1

Conscious Connection: Stinging Nettles (Urtica dioica)

Dear Reader What better place to begin an exploration into nature connection than with the humble, recognizable and misunderstood stingin...

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May 26

Mindful Foraging for Wild Foods, Medicines and Nature Connection

Dear Reader, I hope you are keeping well in these times of transition and finding some space for reflection, both internal and external. ...

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Apr 12

Voluntary Simplicity

Dear Reader, We live in an era defined by and revered for its immense availability of choice. We grow up told we can be anything, achieve...

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Apr 8

Do Not Seek

Dear Reader, I believe there are two keys to unlocking mindfulness. Here we shall focus on what is perhaps the best understood: the conce...

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Dec 21, 2019

Living Standards

Dear Reader, Each morning I get up and spend around an hour drinking coffee and talking with my girlfriend. It is a ritual of sorts, a vi...

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Nov 8, 2019

Carbon Offsetting- Friend or Foe?

Dear Reader, My intention here is to chat a little about carbon offsetting and clear up the polluted air surrounding the subject. It can ...

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Oct 11, 2019

Easy Win #3- Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

Dear Reader, Saying has it that money the root of all evil. I have often felt that this is genuinely the case, with so many of modern soc...

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Ben Stopford

Aug 6, 2019

Zero Waste Q & A with Conscious Roots and Smaller Footprints

Dear Reader, I have been away from my laptop for a while, working to get the Spanish farm to a ‘comfortable’ standard- it now boasts a dr...

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Jun 16, 2019

Citizens vs Consumers

Dear Reader, I am under no illusion that a simple lifestyle is a powerful, world changing political act. I do not believe that my bicycle...

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May 31, 2019

Going Car Free

Dear Reader, ‘Esteban’ was my Suzuki Carry van that I converted into a (tiny) camper in the summer of 2017. He had 9 seats squeezed into ...

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May 8, 2019

Lost in the Moment

Dear Reader, When we lose ourselves in the music, what is the self that we have lost? This post discusses the possibility that our defaul...

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Apr 28, 2019

Easy Win #2- Switch to a Sustainable Energy Provider

Dear Reader, When we live in a normal modern house it tends to come ‘turn-key’, we step in and things simply work. It is an incredibly lu...

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Apr 3, 2019

A Truth of Violence

Dear Reader, I think we would agree that the word violent could legitimately be used to describe the events of factory farms, but it feel...

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Mar 25, 2019

Conversations on Vegan(ish)ism (Part 2). The 3-Fold Path

Dear Reader, The three-fold-path became my out and out winning reasoning in the vegan/non-vegan debate and I do not believe, as a rule, t...

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Ben Stopford

Feb 14, 2019

Conversations on Vegan(ish)ism (Part 1)

Dear Reader, The aim of this blog series is to create an open discussion and the potential for deep, non-judgemental thoughts on a topic ...

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Feb 8, 2019

Easy Win #1. Plant Trees from your desk

Dear Reader, What could be better than performing a great deed without the requirement of hard effort? It is difficult to change habits, ...

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Nov 13, 2018

Guilt Free Challenge

Dear Reader, Read mindfully and try not to judge, my intention is not to tell anyone that these methods demonstrate the best way to live ...

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Nov 12, 2018

The Sad Soul and Unconscious Guilt

Dear Reader, There is a revolution of sadness sweeping across the human planet, in the developed world, books about achieving happiness s...

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Nov 10, 2018

My Life Vows

Dear Reader, A massive part of my adventure into living well and in reality has involved setting myself personal challenges and delving i...

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