Discussing climate change, planetary health and personal health with students from Liverpool schools at St Asaph Cathedral. Sector39 have been working with Chester Cathedral for over a year now exploring how the church can embrace permaculture and how it can effectively communicate a stronger, more positive and more challenging message on environmental responsibility. This school…
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Although there was a limited turn-out for our Wassail on Sunday – owing to the snow and ice – it nevertheless felt like an important event. Steve and Grace gently woke the Orchard from its winter slumber with warm cider. We hope this will be the start of a new tradition at the Orchard, which…
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The crisis deepens – US author J.H. Kunstler calls it ‘the long emergency,’ for that is surely what it is. Climate change, accelerating resource depletion and mass species extinctions underpin what we are experiencing as economic collapse. In reality, however, it is an ecological collapse. A certain kind of short-sightedness seems to have paralyzed humanity…
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Wassail has its roots in In the cider-producing West of England (primarily the counties of Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire) wassailing also refers to drinking (and singing) the health of trees in the hopes that they might better thrive. However it seems appropriate to create our own version to suit the ambitions of the…
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We were down at the Cae Bodfach Community Orchard this morning thinking about the next stage of its development. Steve and Jack of One School One Planet were joined by Dewi Morris, from the Severn Rivers Trust, John Waddington, a recent Sector39 PDC graduate, and Grace Maycock, who has been awarded funding to add a…
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“Environmental politics needs a new psychological sensitivity, a capacity to listen with the third ear for the passion and the longing that underlie many of our culture’s seemingly thoughtless ecolgocical habits. Those habits may be surrounded on all sides by mighty, often creditable, certainly exhilarating human motivations. Theodore Roszak, The Voice of the Earth, 1992,…
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