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
Helena Norberg-Hodge, Founder & Director of Local Futures explains why understanding the big picture of how big money and corporate interests have acted against human and environmental wellbeing through globalisation is a requirement for local economic action. Watch more and
Ecological Economist Tim Jackson explains how an economy built around wellbeing could work and how it would give government a renewed sense of purpose to act positively on our behalf. Watch more and share: Watch more wellbeing-related videos >> Subscribe
The Totnes Wellbeing Fund offers grants up to £500 to help new initiatives that could really enhance personal, community and environmental wellbeing locally. Earlier this year, Zest Physiotherapy secured a grant to run a pilot project of ‘Functional Fitness MOT
The Totnes Wellbeing Fund offers grants up to £500 to help new initiatives that could really enhance personal, community and environmental wellbeing locally. This summer, Mim Stenning and Julia Brownlow were awarded a grant to set up a community Open-no-Mic
Scilla Elworthy Founder of Peace Direct & Rising Women, Rising World speaks about the vital contribution of mindfulness and self awareness to positive action and inner and outer wellbeing. Watch more and share: Watch more wellbeing-related videos >> Subscribe to
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