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Explains the purpose of the resource pack and how it works; written from the author's perspective as useful background reading for users of the pack I have a question for you, yes you! - the reader of this document: how does the work you do affect the wellbeing of the world around you? How might it affect the world in years to come? Yes I know these are rather huge questions that probably require huge and complex answers, but I think it is worthwhile each of us asking these questions every now and then for the sake of our own consciences and the world in which we live.

SDC's "Redefining Prosperity" project has looked into the connections and conflicts between sustainability, growth, and wellbeing.

"Crispin School in Somerset is part of a community of practice that enables pupils and teachers to explore what it means to live a sustainable life."

Ketso was designed to unleash people's creativity, incorporating ideas from Tony Buzan on Mind Mapping®, Edward de Bono on creative thinking, David Kolb on experiential learning and Howard Gardner on multiple intelligences. Suggestions for how to run workshops are influenced by recent thinking in community development, based on the community's assets instead of starting with problems.

The Food for Life Partnership is a network of schools and communities across England committed to transforming food culture. Led by the Soil Association, the Food for Life Partnership brings together the practical expertise of the Focus on Food Campaign, Garden Organic and the Health Education Trust. We want to transform school and community food culture across England, by harnessing the ideas and initiative of young people and community leaders. We aim to reach out through schools to give communities access to seasonal, local and organic food, and to the skills they need to cook and grow fresh food for themselves. We'd like this generation to explore how their food choices impact on their health and that of the planet, and to rediscover the pleasure of taking time to enjoy real food.

"zerocarbonbritain2030 provides political and economic solutions to the urgent challenges raised by the climate science, outlining how we can transform the UK into an efficient, clean, prosperous zero-carbon society."

"After long battles, three farmers in France have won legal claims that their cases of cancer and Parkinson's disease were caused by working with pesticides. Now they want to help others fight similar cases"

bi-monthly magazine at the heart of earth, art and spirit, often inspirational Part of the Schumacher Circle

"Review of Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster "

"Frankly, when I first learned about peak oil, I was a bit freaked out. ... But after a time I slowly changed my attitude, expectations, and lifestyle to accommodate a radically different reality from the one I previously knew." One woman's personal transition tale. Useful links

My dear friend Jean-Philippe's website dedicated to Galan the paradise in Bigorre. Started in 1998, he sadly died in 2004. A polymath seriously concerned with what it means to be a human being. Use Google translate.

"A discussion of the interrelations between food, health, and the environment is extremely topical today. " 2008

a western insightful view of ordinary beauty and how it relates to impermanence, painfulness and insubstantiality