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September 6th 2015, saw a remarkable demonstration calling for action to support refugees wanting to come to the UK – as well as for those already here. It had become clear that the public mood on the issue was undergoing sea change, but the passionate response to the event surprised even the organisers.
Chris Fensom, who was crowned British Light Heavyweight (MMA) boxing champ this November, is very, very tall. Hence his nickname ‘The Giraffe’. Together with his follically-challenged friend Daren Headley, aka the Slaphead, he interviewed Anuradha Vittachi, founder of OneClimate, about climate change. The pair run a series of popular podcasts, The Slaphead and The Giraffe, usually bantering about lighter […]
The Passion behind the Project The reason for doing all this was reinforced today when I read an application Anuradha is preparing to fund a mass blog on this subject under the OneWorld banner. She writes: “I had been writing about Climate Change with a generalised anxiety since 1980 – but, like many anti-poverty activists, […]
Professor Danny Dorling, University of Oxford, offering a tour d’horizon of different forms of inequalities in the social and political scene. This was part of a fascinating evening on the occasion of the New Internationalist launch of their latest series of NoNonsense books in September 2015.
Great speakers like Shappi Khorsandi grearing up for May 9th to explore the theme of ‘Misfits and Pioneers’.
The most effective gamechanger in the struggle against dangerous climate change could turn out to be simple economics: the fact the renewable energy is fast becoming competitive with fossil fuels. In many countries it is only the high subsidies on fossil fuels that are keeping them artificially cheaper. But now that is changing. And very effective […]
Harald Löffel is an most unusual man who has developed a way of life very relevant to the modern predicament. I met him by chance on the deck of the long ferry crossing from Greece to Italy. We started talking and I couldn’t resist picking up the only camera I had with me to record what […]
Dr. Daniel Maughan, the inspirational Sustainability Fellow at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, gives his take on how the NHS can make its mental health services truly sustainable. And it’s about much more than saving money.
Dr. Judith Anderson speaking in 2014 at the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Summit, organised by the Oxford Centre for Sustainable Healthcare.
In October 2014 the Royal College of Psychiatrists held their first summit on sustainability. It proved a fascinating day – as the very varied set of presentations we filmed demonstrate – everything from yurt living for depression to online versions of group therapy. And all in the context of the challenge of climate change. What […]
To mark the second anniversary of her death, we’ve put together these fragments of film and photographs as a remembrance of a truly remarkable woman – Boo Armstrong.
In was right on mission for the Hedgerley Wood Trust when we were invited to produce the video coverage of this week’s Sustainability Summit at the Royal College of Psychiatrists. One particularly powerful interview was with the psychiatrist and environmental activist, Dr. Hugh Grant-Peterkin.
In a powerful presentation the author of ‘Wild’ takes us to the Amazon to understand the human roots of culture and the ways it which it is threatened in the modern world. Are there nevertheless reasons for hope? Jay Griffiths was speaking at the 2015 meeting of the Climate Psychology Alliance on the theme of […]
Chris Johnstone was speaking at the 2015 meeting of the Climate Psychology Alliance on the theme of Radical Hope and Cultural Tragedy. For more information check climatepsychologyalliance.org.
August 2014 saw an audience in the amphitheatre at Hedgerley Wood enjoy a programme of songs and flute music from the High Octane singers, and a presentation on the work of the Hedgerley Wood Trust. This is one of a series of meetings and events arranged as part of the mission of the trust.