Creative Entrepreneur of the Month: Robyn Trainer of Floral Footsteps

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Seymour

Confucius say, “Make a living from what you love and you’ll never work another day in your life” and although this sounds lovely and has become something of a mantra for our times, anyone who has succeeded in making a living from something they love will be able to tell you there is a lot [...]

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Nailing Fantasy to the Real World

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Seymour

A storyteller’s imagination draws down the silk of another world and nails it to certain real places and objects such that every experience, awake or asleep, real or imagined begins to resonate with the echo of one another and boil with significance. (Me) During his time in Durham, C.S. Lewis is said to have been [...]

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Nocton Cow Factory Update

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Seymour

Yesterday at a London press conference, the companies behind the US-style cow factory farm propsed for Nocton in Lincolnshire announced that they are pressing on with their plans to build the facility in spite of widespread public concern for the environment and animal welfare. Nocton residents are wondering why London was chosen for the press [...]

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Blogging Friends: Spreading The Love

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Seymour

See that column on the bottom right? That’s my Blogroll. I wrote this as a static page but was so blown away as I pondered the qualities of my various blogging friends that I thought I’d make it a post, too. These are all people I know offline and I would like to introduce them [...]

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How Local Communities Can Dial Down Dependence on Burning Carbon

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Seymour

(c) 2010, Seymour Jacklin. Every single individual can make changes in their household, work and family life that will help to reduce their “carbon footprint.” The idea of a carbon footprint is an extension of the term “ecological footprint”, which was an indication of how much land was required to sustain a given human population. [...]

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