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I, like many others, grew up with the belief that, “I can’t do that; I’m not good enough”. Over the years I’ve met so many amazing entrepreneurs and activists in the social change space who have experienced these same doubts,
NOW is also delighted to launch a video of one of 2016’s recipients of the Totnes Wellbeing Fund, The Living Projects. This shows the difference that grant funding can make to a brilliant project run by a group of 18-25
Many of us draw on nature to nourish our wellbeing. This blog will introduce you to the Gardener’s Way: a set of approaches that show the parallels between cultivating your own wellbeing, and tending an organic garden. I’ve evolved the
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing” – Arundhati Roy. Those powerful words from author Arundhati Roy have often inspired me, because they remind me that many people
We all need housing, food, water and other essentials if we are to survive, let alone thrive. And in modern society, we are expected to acquire these essentials through the market. So, economics should concern us all. Yet more and
Inspired by the Frome Share Shop, last year we seeded the idea of having a version here in Totnes: the Share Shed. Things soon began to take shape when Totnes Town Council granted us a space to pilot the Share Shed
In this blog, Rachel Marsh from Global Action Plan tells us how she’s ditched the Christmas stress of buy, buy, buy in favour of a more mindful approach to the holiday season, preserving not only sanity but also the planet!
3 Values the World Could Live By. Filmed earlier this year for World Values Day at the R50 conference in Oxford, we interviewed thought leaders on the values they felt were most important for societal and environmental wellbeing. Watch more
The Upstream team spent the summer in the feisty Somerset town of Frome (population approx. 25,000) where they looked at the barriers, possibilities and potential for moving the town’s economy from one that had been focused on blind growth to