Giving up your car doesn't mean giving up luxury or freedom- you'll save time, money and discover a more regal existence without one.
… How To Be Free Tom Hodgkinson Transport Cars Bicycles Trains Walking Green Living … of owning a car? You get cabs, you hire cars, you get the train or coach, you cycle, …
He's.... wicked and he's lazy. But he's also surprisingly green. The self-proclaimed Idler on saving the planet from your armchair...
Being green is cheap and easy Tom Hodgkinson | 3rd August 2009 Comment Green Living Society tom_hodgkinson_crop.jpg He's.... wicked and he's lazy. But he's also surprisingly green. The …
We need a public education campaign focused on the climate emergency. And we need it now.
Stay green, protect Earth, save lives Bill McGuire | 10th September 2021 | News Climate Emergency COP26 Campaign climate_emergency.jpg We need a public education campaign focused on the climate …
The more I think about it, the more sense it makes: gardening will save the world. For in a garden is truth, beauty and lots of good food...
… such as space travel, pharmaceuticals, cars, lightbulbs, computers, mobile phones, … So when our high streets are homogenised, our cars all look the same and everyone all does …
Geo-engineering 'turns hearts and minds away from the cause of the climate crisis and inevitably dilutes the urgency with which it must be addressed'.
… During the next twelve months, production of cars, merchant ships and sewing machines was … increasingly likely that petrol and diesel cars will be outlawed by 2030. Just this week, …
Tom partied in the fields of Somerset last weekend like the best of them, but the commercial and environmental impact of Glastonbury left a sour taste in his mouth
… an orgy of over-consumption. Thousands of cars drive there from all over the country. …
At the end of May, I went to give a talk at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival. John Bird, of The Big Issue, and I, sang songs to my ukulele accompaniment and enthused about the pleasures of thrift.
How to be free: Stepping into the ring Tom Hodgkinson | 1st July 2008 Comment Circus Corporatism Greed Festivals Art Protest Consumerism Boycotts Campaigns Consumerism Society Archive_259.jpg At the …
Sometimes it’s good to take a peep at what the enemy is up to. I spent last weekend reading the New York Herald Tribune, and I’ll sometimes look at The Economist. Both these publications are excellent in their way – the Tribune is far superior in writing and information to The Times, for example – but essentially feed the greed of a business-minded readership anxious to figure out what is going on in the world, the better to profit from it.
How to be free: The last untapped resource Tom Hodgkinson | 1st April 2008 Comment Capitalism Wealth War On Poverty Primitivism Consumerism Free Trade UK US Consumerism Globalisation Politics And …
No more financial meltdown, poor communication and substandard food – if we ditch the middlemen and get co-operative, what couldn’t we achieve?
Between you and me... Tom Hodgkinson | 16th March 2009 Comment How To Be Free Idler Free Comment Green Lifestyle Urban Living Society Hodgkinson_March_MAIN.jpg No more financial meltdown, poor …
Climate scientist: only when enough people are terrified will we have a serious shot at tackling the climate emergency.
Why we need to be more afraid Bill McGuire | 23rd June 2022 | Comment Climate Breakdown Editor’s Picks featureimage-1191-390x285.jpg Climate scientist: only when enough people are terrified will we …
We will never tackle the climate emergency until capitalism is replaced with a saner and kinder way of living.
It does not have to be like this Bill McGuire | 5th May 2022 | Comment Capitalism Economics Editor’s Picks 7651028854_38a082a60c_o.jpg We will never tackle the climate emergency until capitalism is …