Right now, the EU referendum campaign has been raging for a while here in the UK. It’s been full of the language of fear, anger and confusion. And we see that across the rest of our politics, and in what filters through from the US. There’s a lot of surface noise, but are there things […]
The holes in the Earth Summit
It turned out the Earth Summit was more of a foothill. This was a huge event back in 1992. We hoped it would lead to fixing everything. Looking back I can see it was inevitable that it didn’t get that traction. It didn’t have a big enough picture. In the 1990s we simply didn’t know […]
The awe of human creativity
Every so often I look at things and my perspective steps back, familiarity retreats and I see with fresh appreciation of what they are and the connections between them. Do you ever experience that? Recently it’s happened at home as I realised the amount of human creativity embodied in the things around me. I don’t […]
The slow but massive process of change
Sometimes, when you think nothing changes, it’s helpful to look back and see how the world has been in motion all the time. Shifts that would have seemed unthinkable have happened, gradually and without being planned or directed. We like to see the world as solid and reliable: it’s convenient. But change is the norm. […]
Welcome to the Upward Path
Hi there! This is a new site that I’m experimenting with. To start off, here’s a video I made about the upward path concept back in May 2015. It’s not exactly polished – I need a lot more video practice! But if you can put up with that, it’s not a bad intro. It’s an […]