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, …
Opponents say the controversial bypass will damage ancient woodlands, disturb wetland birds and impact on protected areas - and it's just one of 22 similar schemes currently awaiting approval. Jan Goodey investigates
Bexhill bypass puts road building back in the spotlight Jan Goodey | 18th January 2011 News Society Roadbuilding Transport Investigations Wildlife newbury4.jpg Opponents say the controversial bypass …
Come Friday morning and a group of kids and their parents converge to begin Brighton's Bike train cycle to school. Could this be the beginning of the great two-wheeled school run revolution? Jan Goodey reports
… take in more of the scenery and feel safer as cars were more wary of our presence.' As well …
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 …
One of the country’s longest standing tree-camps is determined to see off Tesco, its planned new hyperstore and allied £3bn development at Titnore Woods, Durrington, near Worthing.
Titnore vs. Tesco Jan Goodey | 9th April 2009 News Tesco Titnore West Sussex Conservationism Corporatism Tesco Conservation Tesco Conservation Society News web pic 2_241.jpg One of the country’s …
Crude oil may be running out, but Brighton's transport revolution is powering up. Jan Goodey meets Tom Druitt, the driving force behind the Big Lemon Bus
… to do what they’ve done. Golden Fuels • Four cars and a minibus Duchy College, part of … switched most of its transport fleet of four cars and a minibus to run on reconstituted … Bangers (and Mash) Challenge had to run their cars on cooking fat, with the aim of promoting …
Crude oil may be running out, but Brighton's transport revolution is powering up. Jan Goodey meets Tom Druitt, the driving force behind the Big Lemon Bus
… to do what they’ve done. Golden Fuels • Four cars and a minibus Duchy College, part of … switched most of its transport fleet of four cars and a minibus to run on reconstituted … Bangers (and Mash) Challenge had to run their cars on cooking fat, with the aim of promoting …
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 …
In a perfect storm, Middle England is joining forces with climate activists to say no to fracking and the UK's much-talked about shale gas boom
Middle England and eco-activists unite in opposition to shale gas and fracking Jan Goodey | 15th January 2012 News Shale Gas Fracking Natural World Energy frack2.jpg Drilling sites have already been …
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 …
With the UK capital struggling to get commuters to work on time following strike action by tube and train drivers this week, JAN GOODEY reports on a project that will bring the first solar-powered electric buses to the public in the Spring
… company runs the majority of these), 10% from cars, 7% from taxis and 17% from other …
With a government seemingly intent on pushing through the latest road-building programme via its localism agenda campaigners are readying themselves for combined resistance using legal experts, alliance groupings and direct action
… which are defined as including low emission cars. ‘In the meantime the proposals to relax …
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 …