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The small thumbnails on the top of this page are a random sampling of websites in a member’s Network.
Just a quote from Art Buchwald. He also gave us gems like: 'It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one' and; 'If you attack the...
Sixto Rodriguez released 'Cold Fact' in 1970s America, it is a masterpiece, but it was almost completely forgotten in his home country. Weirdly, via a bit of...
In Bonfire of the Brands, Neil Boorman lets go of consumerism. Being rather extremist, to illustrate a point, he decides to burn all of his branded possessions and...
Alongside 'Psychology and Consumer Culture' and his work on Common Cause, Tim Kasser's 2002 book The High Price of Materialism has had a powerful impact on the...
Theory U is too complex to describe in a couple of paragraphs, but I will summarise as best I can. It is a theory of creating change that learns from the future as...
The Man Who Planted Trees is a 30 minute animated film version of a book by Jean Giono. It tells the story of Elzéard Bouffier a French peasant who set about...
In the summer of 2010, one of our trustee's, Morgan Phillips, led a group of film students to Bangladesh on a Global Footsteps, Global Venture. Together they filmed...
Our work is inspired and guided by the following people: Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury To date, the greatest success of the HRA Foundation is to have established a...
This came to me via Facebook, I don't know whose image it is, so apologies for the lack of credit. Great conversation starter. People were created to be loved...
Schools in Bangladesh are very overcrowded and often lack basic equipment. It is very hard for children to get a worthwhile education without basic stationary and...
Volunteers Arosh & Shamima, who have 30 years experience in catering, will prepare fresh Bangladeshi cuisine and deliver the food to your venue for gathering of 10...
Nowder village is in the Upozilla (district) of Biswanath in the Sylhet division of Bangladesh. Members of our partner charity Global Footsteps have travelled to...
When the HRA Foundation launched in 2008 our biggest aim was to make Primary Healthcare accessible to everyone in Nowder village. The progress we have made is one...
The HRA Foundation works with elderly members of the Nowder community who are so often left to suffer because families can't support their basic needs. It is our...
This is a cautionary tale I read about in the NEF book 'The New Economics' The legendary Gold rush in California in the 1850s was a bitterly disappointing and...
People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. (John Betjeman) Before...
This is a great graphic created by the Stockholm resilience centre. In this TED talk Johan Rockstrom talks us through the human pressure on the world, suggesting...
In November 2010, Satish Kumar, gave a speech at the LSE on 'Sustainability Living in Practice'. The title dramatically underplays what he says in this lecture. His...
This image shows us the areas of the world that will be most affected by human induced Climate Change. The most striking thing about this graphic is that it is...
I'm not sure if we really need books to tell us about the joy of being outside. If we do, then it's a pretty sad state of affairs we've got ourself into. I'm not a...
This is a pretty famous video (1min45) already, but loads of people have still not seen it and it is certainly worth showing to groups of young people when you get...
This excellent series was on the BBC in early 2011. Hopefully those who make the decisions at the Big British Castle will release this on DVD. If not, you can...
Throughout the 1930's Winston Churchill and a small handful of others spoke repeatedly about the evidence suggesting that Nazi Germany was re-arming and preparing...
The WWF's Common Cause report [PDF, 100 pages] may well mark a tipping point in Education For Sustainability, Campaigning and possibly even Politics. The report...
Five Ways to Wellbeing was a report drawn up by the UK based organisation The New Economics Foundation. Although hugely simplified it serves as a really great...
The BBC/HBO series Mad Men has just completed its fourth series. The lessons we can learn from it are not that easy to decipher unless you have an in depth...
In 'Round Ireland With a Fridge' Tony Hawks tells the story of his ludicrous bet inspired adventure round Ireland, with, um, a fridge. The book was hugely...
This website holds two really great tools for analysing our relationship with consumerism. You can access the first one, the 'Get Satisfied Game Show' straight...
WARNING! This one takes some concentration! I've watched this RSA Animate three times and I think I just about understand it properly now. Slavoj Zizek is one of...
12 Crass Songs is an album by Jeffrey Lewis a New York singer songwriter. Crass were a British punk band from the 1970s. Lewis transformed some of their heavy punk...
As we become more aware of the environmental impacts of travel we are beginning to think more carefully about how we travel; train rather than car, Eurostar rather...
'Imagine designing Spring' imagine how much planning and organisation that would take. Yet, without fail, it happens every year; we can learn so much from Nature....
Spent by Geoffrey Miller explores the psychology behind our consumerist ways. He takes a look at narcissism, choice, marketing, sex and evolution. His analysis...
There are so many ways for English teachers to explore issues surrounding Sustainability. F. Scott Fitzgerald's critique of the explosion of conspicuous...
In Sell the Sizzle sustainability communications experts Futerra pose us this: 'Climate Change sounds like hell, so where is heaven?' Its a great discussion which...
The Nature's Lead podcast really helped me to discover and appreciate the work of romantics like Wordsworth, Thoreau, Emerson, Byron and James Joyce. The romantics...
In The Comfort of Things Daniel Miller explores why we like to buy and surround ourselves with things. The book is an anthropological tour of a street in London....
This is an mp3 of Jonathon Porritt's public lecture at LSE in Feb 2010. The title was 'Climate Crunch: making the economics fit'. I attended and very much enjoyed...
Ellen MacArthur has set up a sustainability foundation, I can't wait to see how it develops. She has pulled in some really excellent people to guide her, but from...
