Green Times is a free social-environmental and educational news platform responding to the biggest story of the 21st century – climate change. Worldwide there is an escalating need for the news media to inform the public about climate and environmental solutions and constructive responses, yet particularly in the developing world this is not happening. Africa is … [Read more...]
Write yourself alive in eco bliss
Would you like to spend time in an eco-village and forest reserve and develop your skill as writer at the same time? Here is your chance to take time out of your busy life and feed your soul: Kuthumba eco village at The Crags, Plettenburg Bay is offering Writing Yourself Alive - A Creative Writing Retreat from 10 to 12 July. Writing is about a conversation with yourself and … [Read more...]
Earth needs your voice
The more we learn about the human induced critical declines over the past 100 years in the life supporting biological systems, which gradually developed on our planet over the past 4 billion years, the easier it is to slide into a place of hopelessness. The truth is so hard to face, that it’s far easier to live in denial – or simply feel depressed and do nothing. Yet we do have … [Read more...]
Stories help us craft a new reality
Two weeks ago, Pam and I got back from a woodland vacation in Ontario, Canada. While we were there, we learned the story of the privately owned forest we were staying in, the Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Reserve. Starting in the 1870s, lumber companies clear-cut the easily accessible white pine stands in the area. Destructive tree harvesting continued until the 1960s, when … [Read more...]
‘Tis the season to be grateful and giving
Even after all this time The sun never says to the earth, "You owe Me." Look what happens with A love like that, It lights the Whole Sky. (Hafiz) Gratitude From the moment of birth, we are given the gift of life and breath - before we learn to give. In the above poem the Persian poet, Shamseddin Mohammad (crica 1300's), better known as Hafiz (a title given to those who … [Read more...]
