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 | 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 | Aug 12, 2019 | Ecocentro Ipec, Homeschooling, Kids Gardening, Land Art, Permaculture, Sustainable Living
The word mandala comes from Sanskrit and means magical or sacred circle. Humans have always used mandalas. The Mayan calendar, the medicine wheel of the First Nation, Stone Henge, the Celtic spirals and the Tibetan wheel had symbols that originated in mandalas. The... 
by Lucy Legan | Aug 5, 2019 | Homeschooling, Kids Gardening, Permaculture, Sustainable Living, Waste Free Living
Compost is an art form based on science. It’s the end product of decomposed organic material. Anything that once lived such as leaves, trees, animals, even animal poop will naturally start to decompose. In time it will resemble the soil upon which it lies.... 
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.... 