Sustainability

Please see below selected recent food-related change.

See also:

• What's New? - Food
• What's Changing? - Animals
• What's Changing? - Health
• What's Changing - Security
• What's Changing? - Water

January 2025

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone - Herman Hesse

As a member of The Woodland Trust, I regularly signed petitions to preserve ancient woodlands and unique trees. Does this make a difference? The battle is an ongoing one, but worth fighting, if necessary tree by tree.

Please see below selected recent sufficiency-related change.

See also:

• What's New? - Sufficiency
• What's Changing? - Acceptance
• What's Changing? - Consumption

November 2024

Please see below recent water-related change, including the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal goal six (SDG 6) of ensuring clean water and sanitation by 2030.

See also:

• What's New? - Water
• Halcyon SDG 6. Headlines
• What's Changing? - Food

In figures:

“This is happiness,” Willa Cather’s fictional narrator gasps as he sinks into his grandmother’s garden, “to be dissolved into something complete and great.” A generation later, in a real-life counterpart, Virginia Woolf arrived at the greatest epiphany of her life  - and to this day perhaps the finest definition of what it takes to be an artist - while contemplating the completeness and greatness abloom in the garden.

In the 1840s Henry David Thoreau swapped his busy schedule in Concord, Massachusetts, for a wooden hut he built himself near Walden Pond. We had the privilege to visit Walden in July 2012; it exceeded expectations in its tranquillity and beauty - and the swim in the pond itself was unforgettable.

Writing in the winter of 1843, shortly after Margaret Fuller’s mentorship made him a writer, the twenty-five-year-old Thoreau awakened to a snow-covered wonderland and marvelled at the splendour of a world reborn.

Please see below recent regeneration-related change.

See also:

• What's Changing? - Demographics
• What's Changing? - Diversity
• What's Changing? - Environment
• What's Changing? - Nature
• What's Changing? - Sustainability

April 2024

Please see below selected recent optimism-related change.

See also:

• What's New? - Optimism
• What's Changing? - Hope
• What's Changing? - Therapy

March 2024