tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35347561.post116219392064175963..comments2023-06-06T10:33:30.689+01:00Comments on The Lazy Environmentalist: Politics versus economics: The Stern ReviewPolly Higginshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06426446366175195351noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35347561.post-22778056505310667022006-11-03T17:28:00.000+00:002006-11-03T17:28:00.000+00:00Thanks Steve, so glad to hear of like minds and to...Thanks Steve, so glad to hear of like minds and to hear what people are up to out there. I too am an ardent supporter of CAT and spent a wonderful weekend there some months ago. Yes, it's time to look to the positives. Thanks for the support and keep in touch.Polly Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06426446366175195351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35347561.post-7714381255296411742006-10-30T20:48:00.000+00:002006-10-30T20:48:00.000+00:00Hi Polly, - saw a link to your blog in the Graunia...Hi Polly, - saw a link to your blog in the Grauniad... yes well today felt like a highly significant day for me and I really welcome that they are at last gearing up bureaucracy and the machine of state to better respond. . I have been watching this debate very closely for longer than I care to remember and remain pretty incredulous as to how long it has taken the mainstream to pick up on this. I am interested to see your blog and will check out your links later... I worked for a long time at the Centre for Alternative Technology here in Wales as well as for the permaculture movement for a long while and am now developing urban sustainable gardens for schools.. as well as living in a housing co-op and farm with a very strong eco ethic, so I am pretty engaged in this process of making this step change to a low impact socially responsible lifestyles.. I am actually pretty positive I think people just don't realise how many positives there are to having this kind of lifestyle and what significant inroads we can make just by being more efficient and strategic about how we do things. I do have a personal criticism of the whole 'green' movement as such as it is that they can be both a pretty miserable and sanctimonious lot at the best of times.. doesn't make a lot of people want to sign up - so I think what you are doing is great and I wish you well with it. Sorry, this is your blog I shall shut now.. but keep up the work! its all good stuff..Steve the Weavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17671171204458427910noreply@blogger.com