What do you value and why?
What do you value about Easter?
And why do you value what you value? Read more
Social entrepreneurship: what’s age got to do with it?
Where should we turn to save the planet from injustice and inequality? The passion and idealism of a 20-something Stanford graduate, or the older and (supposedly) wiser woman who has been there before? It’s a hot topic in the social enterprise sector, but is the ‘right’ age really the right question? Read more
Innovation. A simple idea.
A few weeks ago we were in Vienna for the Masters, continuing to explore that trendy set of words ‘social innovation’. As part of the week long intensive we spent a day at the Microsoft office and at the end of the day we were given a tour. Read more
What’s the value of choice?
We were sitting in a café in Paris, just after moving to London. We were drinking champagne, and contemplating whether to buy macaroons, or chocolate (or probably both) to bring back to our London apartment. And a memory flooded back of sitting in another ‘café’ – a makeshift tent, high in the Andes in Peru with the faces of 20 porters looking curiously at us. Read more
Eat more vegetables, don’t be one
I was listening to a song the other day that got me thinking.
The Logical Song by Supertramp has some interesting historical lyrics (they were written way back in 1979 so that must make them historical – yet compellingly relevant still) . . . Read more