Is it possible to help the environment, local community and give the homeless a second chance at life? The charity Emmaus is living proof that the answer is yes
… Case Study Waste And Recycling Emmaus Homeless Recycling Second-hand Furniture Abbe Pierre emmaushomelessness.jpg Is it possible to help the environment, local community and give the homeless a second chance at life? The charity …
What shapes our ideas of home and homelessness? Where do we find solace in the face of despair? ELIZABETH WAINWRIGHT speaks to Raynor Winn, author of the recently published and bestselling book The Salt Path about walking, belonging, and the rural hidden homeless.
… What shapes our ideas of home and homelessness? Where do we find solace in the … walking, belonging, and the rural hidden homeless. I have just been given three very … in barns, in the woods: these are the hidden homeless, “but their lives were here; the wood …
They used to sleep beneath London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. Now a pioneering collaboration between the Southbank Centre and a housing association is giving a group of ex-homeless a chance to create a rooftop garden
… Homeless gardeners provide makeover for iconic … Biodiversity Community Gardening Ecotherapy Homeless Wild Flowers … a housing association is giving a group of ex-homeless a chance to create a rooftop garden …
It’s the greener way to go, but it seems bicycling can tackle everything from health issues to homelessness. Claire Baylis learns the meaning of true pedal power.
… Local Hero Bikeworks Bikes London Bicycling Homeless Bicycles Society bikeworks_MAIN_1.jpg … can tackle everything from health issues to homelessness. Claire Baylis learns the meaning … for disadvantaged groups, the young and homeless in particular,’ he says. A trip to …
Coming so soon after the Magna Carta celebrations, the eviction and destruction of the Runnymede Eco-village is a parable of our times, writes Nicholas Sebley: a violent assertion of the power of capital over people and community, and part of a deliberate, systematic closure of alternative ways of living outside the mainstream economy.
… 'skipping' their food. Now those people are homeless and all that remains of their lives … shattered'. Or Shawn who found himself street homeless in Brighton when the state … three quarters of the increase in statutory homelessness from 2010 to 2014 was …
UK police now have free rein to create 'dispersal zones' in public places, writes Josie Appleton. This allows them to exclude people for anything from street drinking to looking suspicious, being homeless, protesting, or merely 'congregating'. This represents a serious breach of our Common Law and Magna Carta rights.
… street drinking to looking suspicious, being homeless, protesting, or merely … Those barred from public places include homeless people, a disabled man handing out food for the homeless who was issued with a dispersal …
Scavenging is on the rise in the US and is no longer the exclusive domain of the poor. Felicity Carus reports on San Francisco's attempts to close down this informal sector and its impact on a burgeoning recycling culture
… income to some of the city’s estimated 8,640 homeless people. Homeless men and women pushing shopping … But San Francisco’s scavengers are not all homeless or disaffected like Victor and …
One billion people could have been forced out of their homes by 2050 as a result of the pressures of climate change, a new report by development charity Christian Aid says.
… 1 billion homeless by 2050, says Christian Aid 14th May …
With bricks and mortar proving environmentally unsustainable, a dearth of affordable housing available, and charity Shelter maintaining that homelessness persists, could shipping containers be a solution?
… and charity Shelter maintaining that homelessness persists, could shipping … 1.1 million in the private sector. With UK homeless charity Shelter predicting that as many as 35,000 people could be homeless by Christmas, an eco-friendly …
As the recession continues, squatting across Europe has enjoyed a renaissance. Although controversial, occupying vacant buildings has become a form of activism, promoting alternative lifestyles and challenging the mainstream
… positive aspects including housing otherwise homeless people and, as has been demonstrated … not sufficient adequate housing solutions for homeless people, it is senseless to … of National Organisations Working with Homeless People. On the contrary though, he …
Groups such as Dot Dot Dot and the Squash Campaign are pushing for workable solutions to the UK's housing crisis, but they are up against an anti-squatter media backlash. Laura Laker reports
… Politics & Economics Squatters Housing Homeless Government Property Rights How To … that many cannot afford decent housing. Homeless charity Crisis estimates up to 10,000 … make them uninhabitable in order to prevent homeless people using them for shelter.' He …
How can we stop the juggernauts of so-called progress from sweeping away every bit of individualism and community that well-run high streets bring us? John Bird wants to give you his card
… marketplace. The Big Issue is about bringing homeless people to the marketplace so that … sustain themselves. The marketplace helps the homeless become, like the rest of us, the … Irish family. He spent much of his youth homeless on the streets, and in and out of …
Inspiring businesses to reuse food that would have otherwise be sent to landfill, the pioneering group FareShare collects and distributes it to homeless shelters: feeding the needy, saving CO2 and diverting waste from landfill
… Food & Gardening Fareshare Food Waste Homeless Landfill Climate Change … FareShare collects and distributes it to homeless shelters: feeding the needy, saving …
The environmental campaigner and journalist argues we need to abandon capitalism as we recover from coronavirus and establish a new economy of private sufficiency and public luxury.
… to Double Down News . He began by citing homelessness as an example. During the last 10 … has increased. But when the rich perceived homeless people as potential carriers of …
Those most affected by climate change are those least responsible and the international policy frameworks in place to protect them don't work making it a moral issue. But we must believe that the larger goals of environmental sustainability and social justice can be achieved - if we just work together writes Asoka Bandarage
… by heavy rains leaving two million people homeless. Sri Lanka - which has experienced … which have left some 500,000 people homeless and over 200 families buried in the …
A Green New Deal built around public abundance is more necessary than ever.
… perfect. The police often came by, to remove homeless people trying to sleep or arrest … article’s author Chris Arnade says, unlike homeless shelters or other places of last …
A future of carbon neutral border industries criminalising climate migrants is already happening.
… if the recent experiences of those made homeless in California due to fire is anything … by. Chico police have been violently evicting homeless encampments, including those of people made homeless by recent forest fires. There will …
Last November Tanzania's President Kikwete tweeted his promise that the evictions of indigenous Maasai people and their villages near Serengeti National Park would stop. But now another round of evictions is under way: thousands of Maasai have been evicted at gunpoint and their homes burnt to ashes. The Maasai say: 'We need your help!'
… homes were burned, leaving over 3,000 people homeless. According to witnesses, the … to 3,000 Maasai, including many children, homeless and without food, medical supplies or …
Oxford Council's Executive Board meets today to decide whether to criminalise 'noncompliant' busking, pavement art, cycling and other activities in the City's vibrant public spaces, punishable with a £1,000 fine. Jonny Walker wrote them this Open Letter.
… begging, despite the fact that a coalition of homelessness charities have asked you to … alongside buskers, peddlars, cyclists and homelessness initiatives to come up with a … alongside buskers, peddlars, cyclists and homelessness initiatives to come up with a …
Following Israel's destruction of much of Gaza's civilian infrastructure in Israel's summer 2014 attacks, the territory's drainage systems have been unable to cope with heavy rains, and the UN has declared a state of emergency in Gaza City.
… A repeat of 2013 - but with thousands already homeless "We are very concerned about such …
Our current approach to climate change is strengthening the ideological substructure that is devouring our planet. Charles Eisenstein urges us to tackle the problem at a fundamental level and to focus on the health of humans and natural systems.
… - say reforming the prisons, housing the homeless, caring for the autistic, rescuing … to use the word 'justice’), housing the homeless, ending human trafficking, ending … Scrooge, might argue that rehabilitating homeless people worsens climate change by …
An invisible electrosmog engulfs us, destroying the health of many who do not even know why they have fallen ill. Why is no one listening to the mass of evidence telling us we are frying our brains?
… us we are frying our brains? Today I am homeless. My money does not provide me … are wandering this country’s barren deserts, homeless, ostracised, robbed of their civil …
A dinner on the deck is interrupted by the fall of a baby sparrow. The event triggers a flood of thoughts and powerful emotions - and a renewed faith in our children's ability to grasp an uncertain future.
… to the now-empty nest (that contained the now-homeless sparrow in the grass) there was yet a … to the now-empty nest (that contained the now-homeless sparrow in the grass) there was yet a …