by Lucy Legan | Jan 17, 2022 | Conscious Green Mama, Ethics, health, Permaculture, Sustainable Living, Waste Free Living
Eco-anxiety is an emerging condition. Named in 2011, the American Psychological Association recently described it as the dread and helplessness that come with “watching the slow and seemingly irrevocable impacts of climate change unfold, and worrying about the future... 
by Lucy Legan | Dec 8, 2021 | Ethics, Land Art, Permaculture, Sustainable Living
The challenge of creating green spaces for people to escape into what separates them from the outside world and connects them with their inner self is one that the Planet Schooling Team embraces. There is an immeasurable amount of fantasy, curiosity, and desire of... 
by Lucy Legan | Sep 14, 2021 | Ecocentro Ipec, Ethics, Natural Building, Permaculture, Sustainable Living
In the late 1960s, Dr E. F. Shumacher, author of Small Is Beautiful, introduced the concept of appropriate technology. The famous introduction of this concept has had a significant impact on current thinking in development. Appropriate technology became better known... 
by Lucy Legan | Jul 29, 2019 | Conscious Green Mama, Ethics, Permaculture, Sustainable Living, Waste Free Living
Or could you be the problem? A little harsh? Maybe so, yet we have serious environmental problems piling up, and the solutions are embarrassingly simple; they just take a little effort. We could have saved the Earth, but we were too damned cheap. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.... 
by Lucy Legan | Jun 2, 2019 | Ethics, Sustainable Living
On my travels, I cannot help but notice how the western house and garden are influenced by oriental philosophies. Buddhas of every kind and dancing Shivas decorate lounge rooms, offices and front yards. Health shops are filled with traditional Asian remedies to cure,... 
by Lucy Legan | May 23, 2019 | Ethics, Kids Gardening, Natural Building, Permaculture, Sustainable Living
We are bombarded by signals of distress of toxic wastes, famines and expiring species, of wars and climate change from news reports. Yet, never have so many systems vital to the earth’s habitability been out of equilibrium simultaneously. So why not awaken to the... 