In Virginia Woolf's feminist lecture A Room of One's Own , she articulates what seems to be a common truth for most people, introvert, extrovert and ambivert alike: that one needs both the physical and mental space to be undisturbed if they are to generate their best creative work. While critics have pointed out that her treatise on women who write literature was an elitist, narrow-minded argument which failed to consider women who were not afforded the numerous privileges she enjoyed, she still broke important ground. Woolf's premise focused on access to a private environment conducive to creating a work of fiction, but in this brief musing I will expand upon that idea and ask, what about a our inner pull to access a space which correlates with our pristine concept of nature in order to connect with our inner selves and even a higher purpose of protecting that environment which fulfills and sustains us? Not everyone has had or will ever have access to the kind of envi...
Amid all of the inaction and inconsequential action, the political bickering, climate change buzz words and the painstaking unfolding of our human dramas, there are simple and elegant solutions we can enact to lower the burner temperature and spare some damage to our home. According to a 2019 report entitled "The global tree restoration potential", there is enough land across the globe that is not being used by agriculture or cities to increase the world's forest cover by one-third and thereby reduce global carbon emissions by 25%. That could set the clock back by 100 years, which is huge. This is the sort of grassroots action that would actually make a difference and can be done right now. Today. No time wasted. No approval from a higher power is needed. We're ready for decentralized collective action. Several countries have already hopped onboard with this effort , including Pakistan, India, Myanmar, places in the UK and an incredible effort to plant a Great...