Stressed out and living for the weekend? Breaking free may be easier than you thought...
… time to change your lifestyle. Work from home With more than 3.3 million people home-working, the benefits of home-based work include: the use of one …
‘If we could think locally, we would take far better care of things than we do now. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, "What will this do for our community?" tends toward the right answer for the world.’ Wendell Berry
… nearest source of electrical power to your home? 6 What time did the sun rise this … on a dollar a day alive? 13 When was your home built, who built it and where did the … from? 14 What was on the site before your home was built there? 15 What is the name of …
ECOE are seeking donations for their Healthy Homes Hardship Fund to help them quickly respond to requests for basic necessities.
… ECOE are seeking donations for their Healthy Homes Hardship Fund to help them quickly … for basic necessities. Last year Healthy Homes for Wellbeing, run by Exeter Community … the issues of fuel poverty and hard to heat homes faced by local residents each and every …
The Kenyan government has begun to forcibly evict tens of thousands of Sengwer indigenous people from their ancestral forest lands and burn their homes, food stores and belongings to the ground. The World Bank wrings its hands.
… Forests World Bank Kenya torched-sengwer-home.png The Kenyan government has begun to … their ancestral forest lands and burn their homes, food stores and belongings to the … out evictions and burnings of Sengwer homes. This injunction was renewed in November …
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?
… Laggan | 6th December 2011 Ethical Living Home Community Shipping Containers Science And … and charity Shelter maintaining that homelessness persists, could shipping … younger buyers unable to afford their own home. Those that do manage to fly the nest …
The plight of Kenya's Sengwer people shows that carbon offsets generated by 'sustainable' forest management are empowering a corporate recolonisation of the South backed by the World Bank against its own guidelines, writes Nafeez Ahmed. Indigenous forest peoples are at risk of genocide while corporations let rip.
… Climate Change Carbon Finance torched-sengwer-home.png The plight of Kenya's Sengwer people … Programme (FPP) reported, over a thousand homes had been torched by the government's … indigenous people from their ancestral homes in the Embobut forest and the Cherangany …
Packed with rare flora and fauna, Britain’s woodlands are the perfect place for getting to grips with nature. From Yorkshire to the Lake District, Hampshire and beyond, Ruth Styles rounds up the best walks
… one of its biggest natural assets, providing homes for a wide variety of flora and fauna … Find out more: www.forestry.gov.uk/grizedalehome The New Forest Where: Hampshire Why it’s great: Home to more than just trees, the New Forest …
Massive dams in Sarawak, Malaysia, threaten to flood over 2,000 square kilometers of the world's oldest rainforests, displace 10,000s of indigenous people, and aggravate climate change, writes Amanda Stephenson - all to generate electricity that no one wants.
… third largest island in the world. Sarawak is home to thousands of endemic species, forty … threatened The rainforests of Borneo are home to hundreds of indigenous plant and … be removed from their traditional lands and homes. Built by the Chinese company SinoHydro, …
Israel's government is now free to expel 1,200 of its Bedouin citizens from their 'unrecognised' villages in the Negev desert, following a Supreme Court decision not to hear their appeal. Now only one thing can save the Bedouin, their communities and their way of life: an international outcry.
… to be called Hiran, on the rubble of the homes of their fellow citizens in the Bedouin … Bedouin citizens will be forced from their homes into impoverished urban townships. The … Bedouin village of Al-Katamat, which is home to 1,500 people, while the new Jewish …
Botum Sakor national park is one of Cambodia's biodiversity hotspots, where indigenous tribes have long lived in harmony with the forest and its wildlife, writes Rod Harbinson. But now they are being violently evicted as the park is being sold off piecemeal to developers for logging, plantations, casinos and hotels. Now local communities are defending themselves and their land.
… proportions. War widow Mrs Saen Saheng was at home with her grandchildren when 30 security … anything, they just came and broke down my home. They brought security guards and took it … previous when security guards torched their homes. When the villagers rallied the guards …
Some 245 Indian villages are in the middle of being destroyed by a $7 billion dam project that will consume more energy than it provides and has even been condemned by its World Bank sponsors.
… out of the water. Next to Katrikaki’s old home, in a similar state of submerged ruin, … risen and caused the final collapse of their homes, which had already been weakened by … refused to leave, the officials ordered their homes to be demolished by 200 labourers whom …
The Kenyan government has sent troops to the Embobut forest to forcefully - and illegally - evict thousands of its indigenous inhabitants, to make way for a World Bank-financed 'Natural Resource Management Project'.
… guards, families are running away from their homes. 11 guards all armed with AK47 rifles were getting into peoples' houses. Homes are deserted. The guards shot one bullet … forest in which many settlers have made their homes, leading to widespread deforestation and …
The world we inhabit is a miracle of billions of years of evolution as life has unfolded in its full beauty and diversity, writes Grant A. Mincy. But human activities - deforestation, mining, urbanisation, pollution, climate change - are tearing away at the functioning fabric of the living biosphere. A mass extinction is under way, and it must be halted, and reversed. But how?
… hot spot. No other landscape on Earth is home to so much wildlife. Home to all the great kingdoms, the forest … the livelihood of folks who call the region home, is dependent upon the rich biodiversity …
India's tea capital, Assam, has been hit by devastating floods for the second time in three years, writes Sneha Krishnan. But the government has failed to address key environmental issues like deforestation and soil conservation, or involve local communities in developing solutions. So ever more fertile land is lost to erosion, and millions of the country's poorest people suffer.
… wildlife, with the Kaziranga National Park - home to two thirds of the world's Indian … of families who found their resettled homes were now on the wrong side of the … systems . Affected people flee their homes and create makeshift camps, where access …
Financed by the World Bank, the Kenya Forest Service has intensified its illegal campaign of evictions, arson, beatings and arrests of the Sengwer forest people of the Embobut forest, Dean Puckett reports from the Cherangani Hills. And behind the violence lies the lure of hard cash - from the prospect of selling the forest's carbon to international financiers.
… Ellen visiting her friend who, after her home was repeatedly burnt by the government's … ride in a 'Matatu' to the town of Iten, home of Kenyan champion marathon runners and … in 2013 forbidding the KFS from burning homes and evicting Sengwers from the forest. …
Ladakh is framed by the Karakoram mountains to the north and the Himalayas to the south. Yet even in this remote environment the forces of global consumerism are intruding. Nicola Graydon reports on the locals' inspiring defence of their culture
… generation to have lived in the same family home – a handsome building, three storeys high … jobs.’ He shrugs and spins the miniature home-made prayer wheel that sits above his … For days now I have been a guest in Lundup’s home, experiencing firsthand the Farm Project …
As Paris prepares for COP21 in Paris, Marc Brightman finds that the city is in the grip of a benign but ignorant authoritarianism that is ready to trample on much-loved green spaces like the Bois Dormoy, reclaimed from dereliction by the multicultural local community, which represent real solutions to the global problems of food, climate, the future of our cities, and our place in nature.
… are small, local, green, and begin at home Marc Brightman | 17th June 2015 News … tear out the trees and construct a retirement home, to minimal building standards, to cater …
If you go down to Barnes today you're in for a big surprise. The sterile concrete of a former reservoir has been turned into a world renowned haven for birds and wildlife. Bridget Nicholls wises a happy fifth birthday to the London Wetland Centre
… in the 1980s as I was receiving my prize. Home from home So, as a rite of passage when I moved to … the triumvirate, property developers Berkley Homes. They then built luxury housing along …
Although currently out-of-favour with the UK government, eco-towns may still offer the best hope for creating sustainable communities
… the Green Deal and a zero carbon standard for homes by 2016. The zero carbon standard means, … in theory, all carbon emissions from new homes – including heating, lighting, hot water … this year, is meant to offer incentives to homeowners to improve the energy efficiency of …
Why do we dispose of organic waste in landfill sites? Shouldn’t we – individuals, councils and businesses – all be using worms to compost it? By Janis Crawford.
… ready and available for use in your bin. At home Having a worm bin is one of the few ways … tea’ for your plants. You can make it at home just by diluting the run-off liquid from … fungal elements to improve its effectiveness. Home composting In 1996 the US Composting …
Forest-dwellers in Buriram province involved in a land dispute with the Thai government have been forcibly evicted, intimidated, arrested, held without charge, and dumped on a site unfit for human habitation with no water supply.
… relocation and the destruction of their homes. Houses were spray-painted with early … network, which works on land rights, at his home in Phakam district in Buriram province. … or communities against their will from the homes or land they occupy without providing …
Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, has personally attacked eco-defender Carlos Zorrilla in TV broadcasts for resisting a vast new copper mine in a precious area of pristine cloud forest, and opposing the advance of oil exploration into the Amazon. Fearful for his life, Zorilla is now seeking international support for his, and his community's, battle for land, water and the natural world.
… Ecuador's Intag region since 1978 and that my home is surrounded by primary and secondary … 19 heavily armed police are breaking into my home. A minute before, I received a warning … the police left, a lone officer entered my home and 'found' a gun and a packet with …
Bruce Parry on tree-bark trips, deforestation and lessons learnt from tribal living
… nonstop. Right now, all I want to do is be at home – I want to fall in love, to grow things, … I’ve built a house on high ground. Where is home? Ibiza. It’s my only home. It’s the best place I’ve ever been in my …
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.
… 30-40 people living in an array of shacks and homes, many beautifully made from recycled … there for three years: heating their homes with coppiced sycamore, using water from … 'skipping' their food. Now those people are homeless and all that remains of their lives …