Climate change

What we think about when we try not to think about global warming: by Per Espen Stoknes

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What we think about when we try not to think about global warming By Per Espen Stoknes
Guest Blog by Jane Sanders

There’s a Permaculture principle called the ‘edge effect’ which describes the incredible richness and diversity that is to be found where two habitats meet … for example the edge of a forest. This book brought this to mind as I experienced the weaving together of psychology and climate science, Per espen stokneseconomics, and deep ecology. As a reader it invited me to stretch my edges too, venturing into new territories. Per offers an integrated holistic approach to the diagnosis and the ‘treatment’ of the earth’s malaise like a holistic medicine practitioner who looks deeper than symptomatic treatment to heal the body.

Don’t Even Think About It: why our brains are wired to ignore climate change by George Marshall

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Don’t Even Think About It: why our brains are wired to ignore climate change. This book is an eloquent explanation of the issue in the title: well-researched, and refreshingly written. It is serious, but not a depressing lecture: the book is entertaining and engaging, partly through its use of stories and interviews as a way of getting past our hard-wired resistance. The table below gives a summary of the major issues covered in the book, and Marshall’s suggested antidotes.

“In Time for Tomorrow?” and Carbon Conversations

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Rosemary Randall is a psychotherapist and group facilitator who has been involved in the environmental movement for many years.  She writes and lectures widely on the psychological aspects of climate change. Andy Brown is an engineer with a background in the social sciences.  He works in research for the built environment and has been a … Read more

James Lovelock: Still Twisting Tails at 91

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When I saw that a conversation with James Lovelock was part of the recent  Bridport Literary Festival, I could hardly believe it.  Firstly, he’s internationally renowned, secondly he’s 91: surely not in our small market town??  Seeing him in person was invaluable, because he’s hard to categorise. James describes himself as an inventor, not a … Read more