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Without sound there would be no music or voice to stir the soul and transport the spirit, there would be no legend, no poetry or song.

Recently Julia Ponsonby and fellow kitchen aide travelled to London to attend The Uprising.

The revolution demanded by economics students around the world has focused almost exclusively on the curriculum, specifically on the need to draw on a much wider range of traditions and schools of economic thought.

Is progress possible? Great provocations and excellent practice

Stephan Harding writes about Rabindranath Tagore and the importance of his work in understanding our rightful place within the world of nature.

Philip Franses encapsulates in a simple way the essence of what Holistic Science for him is about, not always an easy thing to articulate, and also inquires into some of its implications for the relation of science and faith.

Three weeks ago I taught a five-day course at Schumacher College. The title was “The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible,” which is pretty open-ended.

Transition Networks Rob Hopkins reviews book written by past Economics For Transition student Luigi Russi

To garden well requires strength of heart. To nourish the necessary connection, meeting engagement and intimacy with the world that allows us to care and motivates us to practice good horticulture we need a clarity of vision that eschews overly romantic notions of the ‘goodness’ of nature and allows an honesty of interaction.